It’s a new year, which means we have another 365 (wait, it’s a leap year. 366) days of travel to look forward to. However, while most of us look forward, some also look back at the previous years to get a better perspective of where we’ve been in relation to where we’re going.
The airlines we lost in 2020
2020 was the height of the pandemic, most people weren’t flying and because most countries weren’t allowing foreigners in (or worse), hardly anyone was flying internationally that year. Towards the end of that horrible year, we posted a rather long list of all the airlines that had declared bankruptcy and had gone out of business.
The NYC hotels we lost in 2021
In early 2021, we also listed all the hotels in NYC that had closed due to the pandemic. Although that list wasn’t nearly as extreme, it did include the historic Roosevelt Hotel, which had been on 45th Street between Madison Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue for nearly 100 years. From https://www.theroosevelthotel.com/:
The equally historic Hotel Pennsylvania, once the world’s largest hotel, also permanently closed, and the wrecking ball has just finished demolishing the once-famed hotel. Its planned replacement is another office tower building (despite the city still having no idea of what to do with all its currently empty office space).
We were able to update the hotel list a few months later – some of the “closed” hotels eventually reopened, but there were also some that hadn’t been on our original list.
The rest of 2021 wasn’t nearly as bad as 2020. After all, the novel coronavirus wasn’t the threat it had been, with vaccinations available. People were flying more, countries were opening their gates, etc.
The airlines we lost in 2022
By 2022, Covid-19 had evolved into a virus that was generally manageable. With that, the aviation industry was back at levels close to pre-pandemic times. Commercial and charter airlines that closed up shop also decreased to more pre-Covid levels.
The airlines we lost in 2023
Of course, 2023 saw its own share of airlines throw in the towel. These were the airlines that ceased operations in the past year:
January
- Cascadia Air (Canada)
- Eurowings Europe (Austria) (merged with its Malta counterpart)
- Flybe (UK)
- Flyr (Norway)
February
- Aeromar (Mexico)
- Airwing (Norway)
- JC International Airlines (Cambodia)
- Viva Air Colombia (Colombia)
- Viva Air Perú (Peru)
March
- Blue Air (Romania)
- Marianas Southern Airways (Saipan)
- Ulta Air (Colombia)
April
- Niceair (Iceland)
May
- Air Moldova (Republic of Moldova)
- Fly Gangwon (South Korea)
- Go First (India)
June
-
Skåneflyg (Sweden)
July
None
August
- Air Oradea (Romania)
- Hi Air (South Korea)
- Red Way virtual airline (United States)
September
- Equair (Ecuador)
October
- Buta Airways (Azerbaijan) (merged with Azerbaijan Airlines)
- MYAirline (Malaysia)
- Novair (Sweden)
- Swoop (Canada) (merged into WestJet)
November
None
December
- Thai Smile (Thailand) (merged with Thai Airways)
Not yet gone, but not doing well:
- iAero (United States) – Chapter 11
- Ultimate Jet (United States) (charter) – Chapter 11
- Western Global (United States) (cargo) – Chapter 11
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