Quiz – Defunct airlines #2 by Sergio Ortega | published in January 2009 from questions published in April 1998 1. Which airline was formed by the merger of 6. Which Belgian airline was in business between Caledonian Airways and Flying Colours? 1996 and 2001 and operated Sabena’s MD-11 A. Air Britain flights? B. British Caledonian A. American Airlines C. JMC Air B. British Airways D. Thomas Cook Airways C. CityBird D. Swissair 2. Which airline, operating Fokker F.28s in the 1980s, had a hub in Utica-Rome, NY and later in 7. Which airport was Western Pacific’s first hub? Syracuse, NY? A. Aspen A. Allegheny Airlines B. Colorado Springs B. Air Oneida C. Denver International Airport C. Altair Airlines D. Eagle County D. Empire Airlines 8. Which short-lived airline (1997-1999) was based 3. Which low-cost subsidiary of KLM uk started at Long Beach Airport? operations in 2000 on BAe-146 aircraft and was A. Air America acquired by Ryanair in 2003? B. Long Beach Jet Express A. AB Airlines C. Royal Airways B. Buzz D. WinAir C. easyJet D. Go Fly 9. Which now defunct airline used IATA code “RC”? 4. Which Caribbean airline had a color scheme with A. Air America the national musical instrument on a solid B. Hughes Airwest turquoise background? C. Republic Airlines A. Air Jamaica D. Southern B. BWIA C. Cayman Airways 10. You probably know that BEA and BOAC merged D. Cubana de Aviacion to form British Airways. Please identify from which of the two airlines BA inherited its two- 5. True or False: Astrud Gilberto sang for many letter code “BA” and its callsign “Speedbird”. Eastern Airlines television commercials A. BEA A. True B. BOAC B. False This content is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more quizzes, visit http://airodyssey.net/quizzes. Send your comments to . .