August 01, 1928
Luft Hansa and Dobrolet partner to operate a regular postal service on the route Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk. View airlines from Germany.
August 01 1931
Boston and Maine Airways began operations on a Boston- Portland–Bangor route. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1936
British Continental Airways & the Scandinavian routes were absorbed into British Airways, although the Belgian routes continued under the BCA name for a further 2 months. View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 01, 1946
SAS was founded (merger of Det Danske Luftfartselskab, Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik and Det Norske Luftfartselskap. View airlines from Scandinavia.
August 01, 1946
BEA (British European Airways) was established as state-owned corporation. View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 01, 1947
KNILM was dissolved and transferred to KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (>Garuda Indonesia). View airlines from Dutch East Indies.
August 01, 1947
KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf was founded as a KLM subsidiary to succeed KNILM (>Garuda). View airlines from Dutch East Indies.
August 01, 1951
JAL (Japan Air Lines) was formed as Japanese Airlines. View airlines from Japan.
August 01, 1953
The Air Corporations Act, 1953 was set up. This allowed the formation of Air India & Indian Airlines. View airlines from India.
August 01, 1953
Indian Airlines was created by the merger of eight private companies. View airlines from India.
August 01, 1961
Air Afrique, formed on 28Mar1961, started operations. View airlines from Ivory Coast.
August 01, 1963
Jersey Airlines was renamed to British United (C.I.) Airways (>>KLM Cityhopper). View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 01, 1964
ALM-Antillean Airlines founded in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; an offshoot of KLM Royal Dutch. View airlines from Netherlands Antilles.
August 01, 1965
Transglobe Airways was renamed from Air Links. View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 01, 1966
First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1967
Qantas Empire Airways changed its name to Qantas Airways Limited. View airlines from Australia.
August 01, 1967
ASA (African Safari Airways) was formed. View airlines from Kenya.
August 01, 1972
Northeast Airlines merged into Delta Air Lines. View airlines from USA.
August 1st, 1972
Air Botswana, founded on 02Jul1972 by presidential decree to succeed Botswana Airways, started operations. View airlines from Botswana.
August 01, 1974
Chautauqua Airlines restarted operations using two 15-passenger Beechcraft 99 aircraft. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1978
In Mar1978, the government of Swaziland announced that it was setting up a national airline, Royal Swazi National Airways Corporation, and informed Swazi Air that they had to close down operations on this date. View airlines from Swaziland.
August 01, 1983
America West Airlines began flying, from Phoenix, Arizona (>US Airways). View airlines from USA.
August 01 1985
Pride Air started operations. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1989
CommutAir restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1991
Tunisair Express was formed as Tuninter. View airlines from Tunisia.
August 01, 1992
Australian Air Express operations restarted. View airlines from Australia.
August 01, 1997
Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger, forming The Boeing Company.. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 2001
Visa Airways was established (Intended to offer domestic services from Mumbai but did not start). View airlines from India.
August 01, 2001
Kulula.com's inaugural flight. View airlines from South Africa.
August 01, 2006
FAX (FlyAsianExpress) maiden flight (>AirAsia X). View airlines from Malaysia.
August 1st, 2006
JetAir Caribbean was founded as United Caribbean Airlines, a charter company. View airlines from Curaçao.
August 1st 2006
Imperial Air Cargo started operations (>>BidAir Cargo). View airlines from South Africa.
August 01, 2007
Skyjet Aviation of Quebec officially began operations. View airlines from Canada.
August 01, 2008
Community Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from Tanzania.
August 01, 2012
AirAsia Japan launched services with a flight from Tokyo Narita to Fukuoka. View airlines from Japan.
August 1st, 2013
Resorts World Aviation was formed an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Genting Malyasia. View airlines from USA.
August 1st, 2013
The Government of Serbia and Etihad Airways entered into an agreement that reorganised the operations of Jat Airways, and renamed it Air Serbia. View airlines from Serbia and Montenegro.
August 01 2013
Tez Jet launched services. View airlines from Kyrgyzstan.
August 01, 2014
Spring Airlines Japan launched operations, linking Tokyo/Narita with Hiroshima, Saga, and Takamatsu using 189-seat B.737-800s.. View airlines from Japan.
August 01, 2014
Our Airline became Nauru Airlines. View airlines from Nauru.
August 01 2015
Air Maleo, established in early 2010. had its license suspended. View airlines from Indonesia.
August 01 2015
The Indonesian Transportation Minister suspended the flight permit of Asco Nusa Air for failing to meet plane ownership requirements. View airlines from Indonesia.
August 01 2015
The Indonesian Transportation Minister suspended the flight permit of New Jatayu Air for failing to meet plane ownership requirements. View airlines from Indonesia.
August 01 2017
Binter CV took over all the national connections of TACV. View airlines from Cape Verde Islands.
August 01 2017
FlyCapri (Green Bay), a Wisconsin-based planned virtual carrier was founded. View airlines from USA.