Airline history from 1988, this page lists 53 airline related events from 1988.
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53 dates in airline history from 1988:
January 01, 1988
Pelangi Air restarted operations. View airlines from Malaysia.
January 1st, 1988
Nashville Eagle, which had acquired assets of AVAir and Air Midwest began operations over the former Air Midwest routes to 16 cities. View airlines from USA.
January 26, 1988
Dual ceremonies celebrated the simultaneous roll-out of the B.737-400 and the B.747-400. View airlines from USA.
January 28, 1988
Aboitiz Air Transport restarted operations (>2Go). View airlines from Philippines.
February 01, 1988
UPS (United Parcel Service) was founded. View airlines from USA.
February 01, 1988
Titan Airways operations started. View airlines from United Kingdom.
February 04, 1988
Air Hong Kong commenced operations. View airlines from Hong Kong.
February 17, 1988
Asiana Airlines was established in Seoul as Seoul Air International. View airlines from South Korea.
February 18, 1988
Binter Canarias was established. View airlines from Spain.
February 19, 1988
The first B.767-300ER was delivered to American Airlines. View airlines from USA.
February 19, 1988
First flight of the B.737-400. View airlines from USA.
February 20, 1988
British Midland operated its final Viscount flight, 21 years after the airline had first operated the type. View airlines from United Kingdom.
March 28, 1988
Atlantic Airways first flight from its base on the island of Vágar, to Copenhagen. View airlines from Faroe Islands.
March 28, 1988
Air France, launch customer for the A.320 took delivery of the first aircraft. View airlines from France.
March 29, 1988
Spantax ceased all operations, leaving some 7,000 passengers around Europe stranded. View airlines from Spain.
April 01, 1988
Toa Domestic Airline changed its name to Japan Air System. View airlines from Japan.
April 01, 1988
Thai Airways International merged with Thai Airways Company (TAC). View airlines from Thailand.
April 7th, 1988
Air Queensland was the last airline in Australia to use Douglas DC-3s on regular scheduled services, the last being withdrawn. View airlines from Australia.
April 8th, 1988
Pacific Southwest Airlines shut down operations and was integrated to USAir (^American). View airlines from USA.
April 25th, 1988
Time Air become the owner of Southern Frontier Air Transport and Southern Frontier disappeared.. View airlines from Canada.
April 27, 1988
TAESA (Transportes Aéreos Ejecutivos) was established. View airlines from Mexico.
April 29, 1988
First flight of the B.747-400. View airlines from USA.
April 30th, 1988
The Air Queensland name ceased to exist, when the airline was absorbed into Australian Airlines. View airlines from Australia.
May 02, 1988
Total Linhas Aereas was established on as Total Taxi Aéreo. View airlines from Brazil.
May 4th, 1988
Texas Air Charters was incorporated. View airlines from USA.
May 19th, 1988
U-Land Airlines was founded as China Asia Airlines. View airlines from Taiwan.
May 24, 1988
British Airways took over British Caledonian. View airlines from United Kingdom.
June 25, 1988
China Eastern Airlines was established under the CAAC Huadong Administration. View airlines from China.
June 30, 1988
Blue1 restarted operations as Air Botnia. View airlines from Finland.
July 01, 1988
China Southern Airlines was established. View airlines from China.
July 01, 1988
CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China), the Chinese state airline, changed its name to become Air China. View airlines from China.
July 09, 1988
2Go was formed as Aboitiz Air Transport. View airlines from Philippines.
July 14, 1988
Sichuan Airlines officially commenced operations as Sichuan Provincial Airlines. View airlines from China.
July 25, 1988
TAP Express was incorporated as PGA (Portugalia Airlines). View airlines from Portugal.
August 18th, 1988
Air Aruba, privatised in 1988, started regional air services. View airlines from Aruba.
August 26, 1988
Cebu Pacific was founded as Cebu Air. View airlines from Philippines.
September 05, 1988
Sky Bahamas started operations as Sky Unlimited. View airlines from Bahamas.
September 07, 1988
PBA (Provincetown-Boston Airlines), founded by John C. Van Arsdale on 30Nov1949, was fully consolidated in to Texas Air. View airlines from USA.
September 09, 1988
Air France and Lufthansa establish Euroberlin France. View airlines from France.
September 28, 1988
First flight of the Ilyushin Il-96. View airlines from USSR.
October 01, 1988
Aerovias de Mexico was renamed to AeroMexico. View airlines from Mexico.
October 26th, 1988
Coast Western Airlines was incorporated. View airlines from Canada.
October 27, 1988
First flight of the ATR 72. View airlines from France.
November 01, 1988
Air Tindi operations started. View airlines from Canada.
November 07, 1988
Air France and Lufthansa established Euroberlin on 09Sep1988 & it commenced operations on this date. View airlines from France.
November 14, 1988
Wasawings lost its flying licence after a second crash which killed 5 people. View airlines from Finland.
December 01, 1988
Asiana began operations as Seoul Air International. View airlines from South Korea.
December 1st, 1988
The assets of Lloyd Aviation were purchased by Norfolk Airline. View airlines from Australia.
December 14, 1988
Hi Fly was founded as Air Luxor. View airlines from Portugal.
December 15, 1988
Pan Air, established in Madrid in 1987, start operations (>ASL Airlines Spain). View airlines from Spain.
December 21, 1988
Antonov An-225 Mriya first flight. View airlines from USSR.
December 22, 1988
Kel Air begin operations. View airlines from France.
December 23, 1988
Asiana start operations as Seoul Air International. View airlines from South Korea.