Airline history from 1986, this page lists 52 airline related events from 1986.
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52 dates in airline history from 1986:
January 23, 1986
Northwest Orient Airlines announces an agreement with Republic Airlines for Northwest to acquire Republic for $884 million. View airlines from USA.
January 25, 1986
Helijet was established. View airlines from Canada.
January 31, 1986
Boeing completes purchase of de Havilland Canada. View airlines from USA.
February 10th, 1986
Air Atlanta Icelandic was formed by Cpt. Arngrimur Johannsson and his wife. View airlines from Iceland.
February 11, 1986
United completes its purchase of Pan Am’s Pacific division for $715 million and began service to an additional 11 cities for a total of 13 cities in 10 Pacific Rim countries. View airlines from USA.
February 13, 1986
Muse Air changed its name to Tran-Star (>Southwest). View airlines from USA.
February 19, 1986
Air Hawaii (ii) ran into financial problems and discontinued operations. View airlines from USA.
March 01, 1986
Trans World Airlines acquire Ozark Airlines . View airlines from USA.
March 03, 1986
ANA restarted scheduled international flights. View airlines from Japan.
March 7th, 1986
Cascade Airways, having filed for bankruptcy protection on 21Aug1985, eventually ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
March 14th, 1986
Istanbul Airlines, founded in Dec1985 by Turkish private investors, began flight operations. View airlines from Turkey.
April 12, 1986
City Center Airlines was dissolved. View airlines from Canada.
April 15, 1986
Suckling Airways operations start (>>Loganair). View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 15th, 1986
Altair Linee Aeree was declared bankrupt . View airlines from Italy.
April 26, 1986
Suckling Airways restarted scheduled operations (>>Loganair). View airlines from United Kingdom.
May 01, 1986
Piedmont bought Empire Airlines in 1985 and merged them into itself (>US Airways). View airlines from USA.
May 15, 1986
African Express Airways started operations. View airlines from Kenya.
May 16, 1986
Great Western Aviation was incorporated in Western Australia to operate initially as an air charter business. View airlines from Australia.
May 17, 1986
Zhongyan Airlines was formed (>>China Southern Airlines). View airlines from China.
May 29th, 1986
Air Swift was founded. View airlines from United Kingdom.
May 31, 1986
Rex Air Charter disappeared when it was rebranded as Waiheke Air Services. View airlines from New Zealand.
June 01, 1986
SAT Flug (Special Air Transport) was renamed to Germania. View airlines from Germany.
June 8th, 1986
Paramount Airways, an inclusive-tour charter airline based at Bristol Airport, was formed. View airlines from United Kingdom.
June 26th, 1986
Royal West Airlines (ii) began operations utilising British Aerospace BAE-146 aircraft. View airlines from USA.
June 28, 1986
Airlines of S.A. are taken over by Ansett & renamed Ansett Airlines of SA. View airlines from Australia.
June 30, 1986
Bangkok Airways restarted operations as Sahakol Air. View airlines from Thailand.
June 30, 1986
Avianca Ecuador, formed in 1985 as Aerogal, began operations. View airlines from Ecuador.
June 30, 1986
Air Chathams operations restarted. View airlines from New Zealand.
June 30, 1986
Air Cargo Carriers, founded in 1986 by Jim Germek, restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
June 30, 1986
Air Atlanta Icelandic operations restarted. View airlines from Iceland.
July 21, 1986
Eastern Air Lines submits a reorganization plan to creditors. View airlines from USA.
July 29th, 1986
Goldfields Air encountered liquidity problems and suddenly ceased its services. View airlines from New Zealand.
August 04, 1986
TAA (Trans Australia Airlines) ceased operations (>Qantas). View airlines from Australia.
August 06, 1986
First flight of the British Aerospace ATP. View airlines from United Kingdom.
August 15, 1986
Avianca Ecuador began operations as AeroGal. View airlines from Ecuador.
August 15, 1986
Cam Air International, formed as Fleming International Airways on 01May1972, ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
August 16, 1986
Cook Islands International begin operations with a flight from Sydney to Rarotonga. View airlines from New Zealand.
August 22 1986
Opal Air ceased operations. View airlines from Australia.
August 24, 1986
Frontier Airlines ceased operations (>UAL). View airlines from USA.
August 28, 1986
Frontier Airlines, having ceased operations on 24Aug1986 & filed for bankruptcy on this date. View airlines from USA.
September 19, 1986
Sichuan Airlines was formed on this date & officially commenced operations on 14Jul1988 as Sichuan Provincial Airlines. View airlines from China.
September 30, 1986
Transamerica ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
September 30, 1986
Republic Airlines, formed by merger of North Central & Southern on 01Jul1979, merged into Northwest on this date. View airlines from USA.
October 13th, 1986
McClain Airlines was founded in 1984 and began flights. View airlines from USA.
October 26, 1986
Ozark Air Lines, founded on 01Sep1943, ceased operations (>>TWA >>American Airlines). View airlines from USA.
November 9th, 1986
Sunstate Airlines (Mildura) commenced operations on the old MVA routes from Mildura to Melbourne, to Adelaide via Renmark. View airlines from Australia.
November 21, 1986
Air Europa, founded on 17Feb1984 as Air España, launched IT charter services with a flight from London Gatwick to Tenerife. View airlines from Spain.
November 30, 1986
Fokker 100 first flight. View airlines from Netherlands.
December 02, 1986
PWA Corporation announced its intention to purchase Canadian Pacific Airlines for $300 million, effective 01Feb1987. View airlines from Canada.
December 15, 1986
National Airlines operations started as Murray Air. View airlines from USA.
December 18, 1986
Eagle Aviation restarted operations. View airlines from Kenya.
December 19, 1986
Western Air Lines became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta. View airlines from USA.