{"id":279774,"date":"2025-09-08T01:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dot-revokes-certificates-4-defunct-us-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:34:56","slug":"farewell-dot-revokes-certificates-of-4-now-defunct-us-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=279774","title":{"rendered":"Farewell: DOT Revokes Certificates Of 4 Now-Defunct US Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258969\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-department-of-transportation\/\"  >US Department Of Transportation<\/a><\/span> (DOT) has revoked the interstate air carrier operating certificates of four defunct US carriers &#8211; <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739602\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>AirTran Airways<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"267138\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/continental-airlines\/\"  >Continental Airlines<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258015\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-airways\/\"  >US Airways<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259420\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-america\/\"  >Virgin America<\/a><\/span>. The most recently active of these four was Virgin America, which ceased operations in 2018 after it was taken over by Alaska Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four carriers hadn&#8217;t flown in years since they were taken over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,4140,1112,423,1065,1777,10432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-continental-airlines","category-dot","category-united-states","category-us-airways","category-us-department-of-transportation","category-virgin-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279775,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279774\/revisions\/279775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}