Originally Posted by
Halon1211
what? You did like that someone actually can up with an answer that an airline actually did close up shop? So you are now dismissing it because it happened before you were born so now it doesn’t count?
here then, another airline that closed up shop and went out of business in the United States;
Legend Airlines
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_Airlines
tell me you don’t like that answer and I’ll give you another airline.
These are not comparable airlines.
NK is 80% larger than Braniff was when it closed its doors and Legend, seriously? Legend was flying retrofitted airplanes that were RJ sized and were competing for business travel only. They had 7 planes, and hardly a “major airline” as Lincoln was talking about.
The best comp for an airline that had a fleet size close to NK, when it closed shop, is PanAm.
The point is, NK is not a small airline and you have to go back 43 years to find a “not a small airline” just going away.
TWA is a semi comparable for NK. It’s much smaller than NK is currently, but it had a large order book. Nevertheless, TWAs downfall took 20 years.