Airline history from 1989, this page lists 56 airline related events from 1989.
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56 dates in airline history from 1989:
January 01, 1989
Air Corsica was established as Compagnie Corse Mediterranee. View airlines from France.
January 02, 1989
Tupolev Tu-204 first flight. View airlines from USSR.
January 19, 1989
Canadian Airlines International acquires Wardair, Canada's third largest carrier, for $250 million (>>Air Canada). View airlines from Canada.
January 19, 1989
American Airlines purchases the Central and South American routes owned by struggling Eastern Air Lines. View airlines from USA.
January 26th, 1989
Orion ceased operations ( ...^TUI Airways). View airlines from United Kingdom.
January 31, 1989
Northwest was launch customer of the world’s largest commercial airliner, the B.747-400. View airlines from USA.
February 01, 1989
PeopleExpress flew its last service from Newark, New Jersey, to New York (>>Continental Airlines). View airlines from USA.
February 09, 1989
B.747-400 entered service with Northwest Airlines. View airlines from USA.
February 14th, 1989
Awesome Aviation was incorporated. View airlines from South Africa.
February 15, 1989
Metro Airlines acquired Atlantis Airlines. View airlines from USA.
February 20th, 1989
Air Exel France, having been founded on 05 Jun1988, started operations. View airlines from France.
February 21, 1989
Tradewinds restarted scheduled services after being renamed from Tradewinds Charters (>SilkAir). View airlines from Singapore.
February 21st, 1989
F.A. Conner Airways was incorporated by Francis Augustus “Gus” Conner. View airlines from USA.
February 22, 1989
Alsavia was created. View airlines from France.
March 09, 1989
Eastern Air Lines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. View airlines from USA.
March 23, 1989
EasyJet Switzerland, founded in 1988 as TEA Basel, start operations. View airlines from Switzerland.
March 26, 1989
Binter Canarias, established on 18 Feb 1988, restarted operations. View airlines from Spain.
March 26, 1989
Austrian Airlines began international flights for the first time in almost two decades on a flight from Vienna to New York’s JFK. View airlines from Austria.
March 31, 1989
The Canadian Transportation Agency approved the sale of Wardair to Canadian Airlines International (>Air Canada). View airlines from Canada.
March 31st, 1989
European Expedite, formed by the GPA group in 1988, started operations. View airlines from Belgium.
April 01, 1989
Burma Airways renamed to Myanma Airways following the renaming of the country from Burma to Myanmar. View airlines from Myanmar.
April 15, 1989
DAT (Danish Air Transport) operations start. View airlines from Denmark.
April 17, 1989
Skyway Airlines, The Midwest Express Connection, began flight operations. View airlines from USA.
May 26, 1989
Eurofly was established. View airlines from Italy.
June 07, 1989
Eastern Shuttle formally became Trump Shuttle. View airlines from USA.
June 08, 1989
Trump Shuttle restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
June 30, 1989
Berjaya Air restarted operations as Pacific Air Charter. View airlines from Malaysia.
June 30, 1989
Antonov Airlines (Design Beureau) restarted operations. View airlines from Ukraine.
June 30, 1989
AeroLitoral, formed as Servicios Aereos Litoral in 1988, restarted operations (>Aeromexico Connect). View airlines from Mexico.
July 07, 1989
Alyeska Air Service, founded by Ken Triplett in 1982 based out of Anchorage was grounded by the FAA. View airlines from USA.
July 15, 1989
Air Freight NZ restarted operations. View airlines from New Zealand.
July 20th, 1989
Aircam Aviation was founded. View airlines from United Kingdom.
July 31st, 1989
Reid Airways, incorporated by Charles R. Reid on 23Dec1968, was dissolved. View airlines from USA.
August 01, 1989
CommutAir restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
August 07, 1989
Zagal (Zagreb Airlines) was registered (>Croatia Airlines). View airlines from Yugoslavia.
August 07, 1989
Federal Express (>FedEx) merged Flying Tigers into its operations. View airlines from USA.
August 9th, 1989
L'Express began operations using Beech 99 and Beech 1900 aircraft. View airlines from USA.
August 09, 1989
Seagull Air ceased operations after several accidents lead the FAA to pull the carrier’s operating certificate and grounded it. View airlines from USA.
August 15, 1989
Air Mike Express commenced operations. View airlines from Guam.
September 03, 1989
Filair, established in 1987 by Captain Dany Philemotte, started operations. View airlines from DR Congo.
September 11, 1989
SunExpress was founded on this date as a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. View airlines from Turkey.
September 28, 1989
Altus Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
October 11, 1989
Partnair, founded on 30Jun1971, ceased operations. View airlines from Norway.
October 18th, 1989
air Hong Kong, formed in Nov1986, commenced scheduled services. View airlines from Hong Kong.
October 29, 1989
ILG fully integrated Guernsey Airlines into Air Europe Express. View airlines from United Kingdom.
November 29, 1989
Air Melanesiæ was renamed to Vanair (>>Air Vanuatu). View airlines from Vanuatu.
December 01, 1989
Transmed Airlines started operations began. View airlines from Egypt.
December 01, 1989
Net and Silkar, partnered with Aer Lingus to create an inclusive tour charter airline called Pegasus Airlines. View airlines from Turkey.
December 15, 1989
Independence Air started life as Atlantic Coast Airlines. View airlines from USA.
December 16, 1989
Kish Air was established by the Kish Free Zone Organization. View airlines from Iran.
December 18, 1989
Holiday Airlines (iv) suspended operations. View airlines from USA.
December 19, 1989
American Airlines purchases the Central and South American routes owned by struggling Eastern Air Lines.. View airlines from USA.
December 19, 1989
Air Europe started operations. View airlines from Italy.
December 26, 1989
Frevag Airlines was merged into Servisair and it was renamed to Flanders Airlines. View airlines from Belgium.
December 30, 1989
Air Dolomiti was established by the Linee Aeree Europee. View airlines from Italy.
December 31, 1989
Minerve Canada ceased operations. View airlines from Canada.