Oceanic Airlines
Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Airways, is the name of a fictional airline used in several films and television programs—typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.[1] Fortune magazine has compared its prevalence to that of 555 telephone numbers.[2] The first appearance was in the 1965 two-part episode "The Ditching" of the television series Flipper. Appearances since include the 1996 film Executive Decision, the 2004–2010 television series Lost, and the 2011 video game Dead Island.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Rice, Evan S. (2017). "Don't Fly Oceanic". The Wayfarer's Handbook: A Field Guide for the Independent Traveler. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-316-27134-9.
- ^ Tobey, Daryna (27 July 2012). "25 favorite fictional companies". Fortune. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017.
Further reading
- Nudd, Tim (18 November 2004). "Oceanic's unfriendly skies". Adweek. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
- Morago, Greg (21 July 2005). "Hollywood's Flight Frights: The Bombs Are Back: Now It's Safe to Scare in the Air". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
- Lambie, Ryan (23 November 2013). "The 10 unluckiest fictional airlines in cinema". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 25 November 2013.