# Airline with just one flight **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670 "2020-04-27T14:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/1 "2020-04-27T14:46:39Z")
Cairo to Tel Aviv. Until this year they did not have a website. No markings on the plane. > **[The Ghost Airline That Has Linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for Decades](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/air-sinai-ghost-flight)** > > Air Sinai is shrouded in mystery. But why? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/2 "2020-04-27T15:31:43Z")
The Mid-Easts answer to JANET airways? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/3 "2020-04-27T17:08:05Z")
Reminds me of the Monty Python album Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album because they had to put out one more album. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/4 "2020-04-27T19:11:16Z")
They could do a sitcom and call it _Wings_. Never quite understood the economics of a one-plane airline, particularly one that could support two pilots and a mechanic. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/5 "2020-04-27T20:10:10Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > They could do a sitcom and call it _Wings_. Never quite understood the economics of a one-plane airline, particularly one that could support two pilots and a mechanic. Well it sounds like the airline in the OP is for all intents and purposes part of EgyptAir, but is treated as a separate airline for political reasons. I don’t know of any other one plane airlines (although there may very well be some and I’m just not aware of them) but there are some other very small airlines out there. [Air Nauru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Airlines), national airline of Nauru, the world’s smallest sovereign nation, has five planes now if Wikipedia is accurate. I’m pretty sure there was a time in the past when they were a one plane airline, though. [Air Pacific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Airways), Fiji’s national airline, is actually bigger than I thought with a fleet of 13 planes according to Wikipedia. I’m guessing the above airlines rely on government subsidies to operate, though, or more likely foreign aid in Nauru’s case. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/6 "2020-04-27T21:53:20Z")
Midway airlines had all their flights on the east coast with some in the midwest. They had one to Steamboat springs CO. Turns out they added that flight because a guy who invested $10 mil in Midway had a house there. They went bust not long after they added that flight. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/7 "2020-04-28T03:52:13Z")
I have nothing to add here, except to recall the young Bob Newhart’s memorable flight to Hawaii, on the Gladys L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Co. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-with-just-one-flight/852670/8 "2020-04-28T05:22:46Z")
I flew from Djibouti to Hargeisa on Daallo, a Somali airline that has two planes.