Trans World Airlines
A lot of people know Trans World Airlines because it was owned by Howard Hughes, who was famously portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in a biopic called The Aviator. Trans World Airlines, also known as TWA, came about as a merger between Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air in 1930. The government mandated this deal. Hughes might not have founded the airline company, but he did take control of it in 1939. According to Yahoo, it dominated the industry for years but eventually came under the management of a second primary shareholder called Carl Ichan. He has been blamed for its downfall in the end. In 2001, it went defunct after it was purchased by American Airlines.
Trans World Airlines
ValuJet
This airline company did not stay in the game for a long period of time. ValuJet had a network and traveled 28 routes in the United States during its heyday. Sadly, things went downhill when Flight 529 crashed in 1996. There were 110 people aboard the plane bound for Atlanta, and they all died in the accident. Miami Herald reported that it had not even flown 100 miles away from Miami International when it started to go down. It was in business from 1992 to 1997, which is shorter than the operation time of the others on the list. ValuJet eventually merged with Airways to form AirTrans Airways.
ValuJet
