Airline history from 1979, this page lists 46 airline related events from 1979.
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46 dates in airline history from 1979:
January 11, 1979
SriLankan was formed with technical assistance from Singapore Airlines as Sri Lanka International Airlines. View airlines from Sri Lanka.
January 14, 1979
Braniff Airlines began flying leased Concorde. View airlines from USA.
January 29, 1979
Mountain West Airlines' operated its first flight. View airlines from USA.
February 01, 1979
Saudia commenced joint operations with Pan Am from Dhahran to New York using B,747SPs. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
March 1st, 1979
UAC (United Air Carriers Inc.), founded on 21Jul1977, ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
March 12, 1979
Atlantic Southeast Airlines was founded (>ExpressJet Airlines). View airlines from USA.
March 12th, 1979
Aerolineas Condor started regularly scheduled services, linking Guayaquil and Ambato with Loja and also with Quito and Tulcan in the north. View airlines from Ecuador.
March 15, 1979
Swissair became the first A310 customer. View airlines from Switzerland.
March 19th, 1979
Air Virginia began operations with a route linking Lynchburg and Washington, D.C (..^Envoy Air). View airlines from USA.
April 1st, 1979
Atlantis Airlines started operations with a single route linking Charlotte and Myrtle Beach. View airlines from USA.
April 18, 1979
New York Airways, a helicopter airline founded in 1949, ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
April 28th, 1979
The first Air Berlin jet, took off from Berlin-Tegel for Palma de Mallorca (>airberlin). View airlines from Germany.
April 30th, 1979
Torontair was established. View airlines from Canada.
May 03, 1979
Abelag Airways was formed as a charter airline (>Air Belgium). View airlines from Belgium.
May 04, 1979
Air Europe began operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
June 11, 1979
Red Baron Air was founded (>Florida Commuter Airlines >Southern Airlines). View airlines from USA.
June 27, 1979
ASA (Atlantic Southeast Airlines) restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
June 29th, 1979
Mesa Airlines received its air carrier certificate (AOC). View airlines from USA.
June 30, 1979
DHL International (SNAS Worldwide Express) operations restarted. View airlines from Bahrain.
June 30, 1979
DANA (Dornier Aviation Nigeria) operations restarted. View airlines from Nigeria.
June 30, 1979
ATI, established in 1978, restarted operations as US Airways. View airlines from USA.
June 30, 1979
Air Nelson, founded by Robert Inglis and Nicki Smith in 1976, restarted operations. View airlines from New Zealand.
June 30, 1979
Aerovias DAP, formed in 1979, restarted operations. View airlines from Chile.
July 01, 1979
North Central Airlines and Southern Airways merge to form Republic Airlines. View airlines from USA.
July 02, 1979
Crossair commenced scheduled passenger services. View airlines from Switzerland.
July 16th, 1979
Young Cargo operations ceased. View airlines from Belgium.
July 20th, 1979
Mafiking Air Services, established by the government of the black African “homeland” of Bophuthatswana in 1978, was renamed to Mmabatho Air Service (>Sun Air). View airlines from South Africa.
July 25th, 1979
Young Cargo was declared bankrupt. View airlines from Belgium.
August 15, 1979
IAS Cargo Airlines, founded in 1966, ceased operations on this date, prior to its merger with TMAC (Transmeridian Air Cargo). View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 18, 1979
Air Bahia, founded in 1979, operated its first scheduled service (a short-lived airline that ceased in 1980). View airlines from USA.
August 31, 1979
Air Ceylon finally ceased all local services when it was replaced by Air Lanka. View airlines from Sri Lanka.
September 01, 1979
Command Airways was rebranded as Magnum Airlines Helicopters. View airlines from South Africa.
September 01, 1979
Air Lanka made its inaugural flight (>Srilankan Airlines). View airlines from Sri Lanka.
September 15, 1979
MedAvia operations start. View airlines from Malta.
September 24th, 1979
Transjet was formed. View airlines from Belgium.
October 1st, 1979
Trans International Airlines was renamed to Transamerica Airlines. View airlines from USA.
October 03, 1979
Bering Air, founded by James & Christine Rowe as a charter airline in 1979, restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
October 18, 1979
First flight of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80. View airlines from USA.
October 28, 1979
Allegheny Airlines changed its name to USAir, reflecting the growing route system of this former local-service carrier (>American). View airlines from USA.
October 31st, 1979
Midway Airlines, founded on 13Aug1976, by investor Irving T. Tague, started operations. View airlines from USA.
November 01, 1979
JEA (Jersey European Airways) operations started (..>FlyBe). View airlines from United Kingdom.
November 5th, 1979
Air East was founded by William Blamey and Edward Davis in Westfield, Masachusetts. View airlines from USA.
November 09, 1979
Air California began its first service outside of California, when it began operating to Reno, Nevada (>AirCal >>American). View airlines from USA.
November 15, 1979
Tropic Air operations start. View airlines from Belize.
November 15, 1979
Sunbird Airlines start operations (>CCAir). View airlines from USA.
December 5th, 1979
Argosy Air Lines, incorporated on 30Jun1971, was involuntarily dissolved. View airlines from USA.