30 Airlines Your Parents Flew — Then Vanished

One day your ticket was good. The next, the airline that sold it no longer existed. These are the 30 American airlines your parents trusted — and how each one disappeared. Pan Am. TWA. Eastern. Braniff. Western. Piedmont. PSA. For decades, these names were painted on the airplanes that carried America to Florida, to Grandma's house, to honeymoons and first job interviews. Today, every one of them is gone. Some shut down in a single afternoon, with passengers still holding tickets. Some were bought because a bigger airline needed their hometowns. Some were loved by millions, and it didn't matter. And behind almost all of them sits one decision made in Washington that changed flying forever. Told through real archival photographs from the golden age of air travel. Did you fly one of these airlines? Tell us which one, and where you were going, in the comments. Subscribe to Lost Airways for more stories of the airlines, airports and golden-age flights America forgot:    / @lostairwayss   Archival photographs courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives and the Library of Congress. Airline names and logos belong to their respective owners. Lost Airways is an independent history channel and is not affiliated with any airline. #LostAirways #AviationHistory #PanAm