23 Airlines That Have Gone Out of Business: Report 2018-2019

With the sudden collapse of Icelandic budget airline Wow Air and India’s Jet Airways in mind, we at the CEOWORLD magazine decided to compile a list of airlines that went out of business since January 2018 until the present day. To identify airlines that went out of Business in 2018-2019, CEOWORLD magazine reviewed numerous national and international media reports. Here’s a closer look.

These Are The 23 Airlines That Have Gone Out of Business (Report 2018-2019)

1. Jet Airways
   Headquarter: Mumbai, India
   Founded: 1 April 1992
   Ceased operations: 17 April 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 Airbus A330-200, 2 ATR 72-500, 3 Boeing 737 MAX 8, 4 Boeing 737-800, 4 Boeing 737-900, and Boeing 777-300ER.
   Key people: Naresh Goyal and Vinay Dube
2. Fly Jamaica Airways
   Headquarter: Kingston, Jamaica
   Founded: September 2011
   Ceased operations: 1 April 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Boeing 767-300ER.
   Key people: Paul Ronald Reece
3. Air Philip
   Headquarter: Seoul, South Korea.
   Founded: December 2016
   Ceased operations: March 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 4 Embraer ERJ-145EP.
4. WOW air
   Headquarter: Reykjavík, Iceland
   Founded: November 2011
   Ceased operations: 28 March 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 Airbus A321neo and 8 Airbus A321-200.
   Key people: Skúli Mogensen
5. Aerolínea de Antioquia (ADA)
   Headquarter: Medellin, Columbia
   Founded: 1987
   Ceased operations: 29 March 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 4 Dornier 328-100.
6. Flybmi
   Headquarter: Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
   Founded: 14 May 1987
   Ceased operations: 16 February 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 3 Embraer ERJ-135 and 14 Embraer ERJ-145
   Key people: Stephen Bond and Peter Simpson
7. Insel Air
   Headquarter: Willemstad, Curaçao
   Founded: 1993
   Ceased operations: 16 February 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, 3 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, 3 Embraer 110-P1 Bandeirante, and 4 Fokker 50.
   Key people: Edward Heerenveen
8. Germania (airline) or Germania Fluggesellschaft GmbH
   Headquarter: Baar, Switzerland
   Founded: April 1978
   Ceased operations: 5 February 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 5 Boeing 737-700, 6 Airbus A321-200, and 19 Airbus A319-100.
   Key people: Karsten Balke
9. Tajik Air
   Headquarter: Dushanbe, Tajikistan
   Founded: 1991
   Ceased operations: January 14, 2019
   Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Boeing 737-300, 1 Boeing 767-300, Boeing 737-400, 2 Boeing 757-200, and 2 Antonov An-28.
   Key people: Khamroev Firuz Khalilovich
10. Asian Express Airline
    Headquarter: Dushanbe, Tajikistan
    Founded: 1911
    Ceased operations: January 2019
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Airbus A320-200 and 2 Avro RJ100.
11. California Pacific Airlines (CP Air)
    Headquarter: Carlsbad, California
    Founded: April 1, 2009
    Ceased operations: January 17, 2019
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 4 Embraer ERJ-145.
    Key people: Ted Vallas
12. PrivatAir
    Headquarter: Baar, Switzerland
    Founded: 1977
    Ceased operations: 5 December 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 3 Airbus A319CJ and 2 Boeing BBJ.
    Key people: Thomas Limberger
13. Small Planet Airlines
    Headquarter: Vilnius, Lithuania
    Founded: 2007
    Ceased operations: 28 November 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 7 Airbus A320-200.
    Key people: Vytautas Kaikaris, Kristijonas Kaikaris, Andrius Staniulis, and Halldor Sigurdarson
14. Cobalt Air
    Headquarter: Nicosia, Cyprus
    Founded: 2015
    Ceased operations: 17 October 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 Airbus A319-100 and Airbus A320-200
    Key people: Petros Souppouris
15. Primera Air or Primera Air Scandinavia A/S
    Headquarter: Copenhagen, Denmark
    Founded: 2003
    Ceased operations: 2 October 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 Boeing 737-800 and 5 Airbus A321neo
    Key people: Hrafn Thorgeirsson and Andri Már Ingólfsson
16. VLM Airlines
    Headquarter: Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium
    Founded: 1992
    Ceased operations: 31 August 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 6 Fokker 50
    Key people: Johan Maertens
17. SkyWork Airlines
    Headquarter: Belp, Switzerland
    Founded: 1983
    Ceased operations: 29 August 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 6 Saab 2000.
    Key people: Martin Inäbnit
18. OneJet
    Headquarter: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
    Founded: April 6, 2015
    Ceased operations: August 29, 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 2 Embraer ERJ family and 8 Hawker Beechjet 400A.
    Key people: Mathew Maguire
19. JETGO Australia
    Headquarter: Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia
    Founded: 2011
    Ceased operations: 5 July 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Embraer ERJ 140LR, 2 Embraer ERJ 135LR, and 2 Embraer ERJ 145LR
    Key people: Jason Ryder and Arron Mulder
20. Saratov Airlines
    Headquarter: Saratov, Russia
    Founded: 1931
    Ceased operations: 30 May 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Antonov An-148-100, 2 Embraer ERJ-195, and 5 Yakovlev Yak-42.
    Key people: Alexei Vakhromeev
21. Nextjet
    Headquarter: Frösundavik in Solna Municipality, Stockholm, Sweden
    Founded: 2002
    Ceased operations: 16 May 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 ATR 42-300, 2 Bombardier CRJ200, 3 BAe ATP, 3 Saab 340A, and 6 Saab 340B.
    Key people: Magnus Ivarsson
22. DART Ukrainian Airlines
    Headquarter: Kiev, Ukraine
    Founded: 1917
    Ceased operations: April 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 Airbus A319-100, 1 Airbus A321-200, 1 Boeing 737-400, 1 Bombardier Learjet 60, and 4 Airbus A320-200.
    Key people: Viacheslav Lysychenok
23. PAWA Dominicana
    Headquarter: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
    Founded: 2003
    Ceased operations: February 2018
    Fleet (shortly before ceased operations): 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-87, and 4 McDonnell Douglas MD-83.
    Key people: Gary Stone

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