Defunct Airlines Historical Archive

Name: Defunct Commercial Airlines & Historical Lineage Archive
Creator: Airline Fleet Intelligence
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

An authoritative historical reference absorbing the failedairlines.com archive, documenting corporate lineages, founding and cessation dates, and merger successors as of 2026-09-17 (Thursday, September 17, 2026).

Airline Name	IATA / ICAO	Country	Founded	Ceased	Status	Successor Entity
Pan American World Airways	`PA` / `PAA`	United States	1927	1991-12-04	DEFUNCT	None
Trans World Airlines	`TW` / `TWA`	United States	1930	2001-12-01	DEFUNCT	Successor Carrier