Airlines Cinderellas

In no particular order.


Danish poster stamp advertising route information for British Eagle (1948-1968).



Good looking etiquette.
From Wikipedia:
Turkish Airlines was established on 20 May1933 as Turkish State Airlines.





Fairly significant bragging point for an airline.




Nice Danish SAS ephemera item.








From Wikipedia:
Founded in 1930 as Wyoming Air Service was renamed Inland Air Lines in 1937 and merged with Western Airlines in 1952.



From Wikipedia:
Southern Airways was a regional airline (known at the time as a "local-service air carrier" as designated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) in the United States, from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979, when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines. Southern's corporate headquarters were in Birmingham, with operations headquartered at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, near Atlanta.

Interesting and informative website.
https://airlinehistory.co.uk/

From Airline History UK:
Panagra was formed by Pan Am & W.R Grace & Company by the merger of Peruvian Airways and Chilean Airlines on 13/Sep/1928 and commenced operations on 12/Oct/1929. The mail contract was awarded to the airline for the route between the Canal Zone and Argentina. It was the first US operator of Fairchild F2-2W in 1929. In 1937 the airline purchased DC3's to replace the Ford Tri-motors. The Braniff International – Panagra merger completed on 01/Feb/1967



Central African Airways (CAA) was formed on 01Jun1946 as the joint airline of Southern Rhodesia (later Rhodesia; now Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Malawi). It started operations with a mixture of ex-SRAS (Southern Rhodesia Air Services) aircraft. Attempted to start Salisbury-London flights using Viking aircraft but a fatal crash in Tanganyika caused the Vikings to be grounded. BAC 1-11 aircraft were ordered in 1962. Succeeded by Air Malawi, Zambia Airways, Air Rhodesia and Ghana Airways after the breakup of the Central African Federation. It was officially dissolved on 31Dec1967







CPA (Canadian Pacific Airlines) was formed on 16May1942 when C P Railway Co. purchased ten bush airlines in a short time span, (Ginger Coote Airways, Southern Air Transport, Wings, Prairie Airways, Mackenzie Air Services, Arrow Airways, Starratt Airways, Quebec Airways and Montreal & Dominion Skyways finishing with the purchase of Canadian Airways). On July 1, 1942, only six weeks after its formation, CPA began operations. Renamed to CP Air in 1968

Mid-Continent Airlines was founded in 1928 as Hanford's Tri-State Airlines and commenced operations as Mid-Continent Airlines in 1938. Ceased operations on 16 Aug 1952 when merged into Braniff Airways.





Middle East Airlines is the flag carrier of Lebanon, was founded on 31 Mar 1945 and commenced operations on 1 Jan 1946.



Sabena was founded on 23 May 1923 and ceased operations on 7 Nov 2001.

Four for the topic:

Real Transportes Aereos was founded in 1945 and ceased operations in 1961.




Mexicana de Aviacion was founded on 12 July 1921, commenced operations on 30 August 1921 and ceased operations on 28 August 2010.