Oceanic Airlines#Television
{{short description|Fictional airline featured in several creative works}}
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{{confuse|text=Ocean Sky UK, a defunct private jet charter company}}
File:Oceanic.svg, from the ABC television series Lost.]]
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. Fortune magazine has compared its prevalence to that of 555 telephone numbers.{{Cite web |last=Tobey |first=Daryna |date=2012-07-27 |title=25 favorite fictional companies |url=https://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2012/news/companies/1207/gallery.favorite-fake-companies.fortune/12.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702132349/https://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2012/news/companies/1207/gallery.favorite-fake-companies.fortune/12.html |archive-date=2017-07-02 |website=Fortune}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Rice |first=Evan S. |title=The Wayfarer's Handbook: A Field Guide for the Independent Traveler |date=2017 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers |isbn=978-0-316-27134-9 |pages=60 |chapter=Don't Fly Oceanic |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/wayfarershandboo0000rice/page/60/mode/2up}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite web |last=Nudd |first=Tim |date=2004-11-18 |title=Oceanic's unfriendly skies |url=https://www.adweek.com/creativity/oceanics-unfriendly-skies-21308/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208221253/https://www.adweek.com/creativity/oceanics-unfriendly-skies-21308/ |archive-date=2018-12-08 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Adweek |language=en-US}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Morago |first=Greg |date=2005-07-21 |title=Hollywood's Flight Frights: The Bombs Are Back: Now It's Safe to Scare in the Air |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/243725427/?terms=%22oceanic%2Bairlines%22 |url-access=limited |access-date=2025-04-12 |magazine=Hartford Courant}}
- {{Cite web |last=Lambie |first=Ryan |date=2013-11-23 |title=The 10 unluckiest fictional airlines in cinema |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/airlines/28315/the-10-unluckiest-fictional-airlines-in-cinema |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125183137/http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/airlines/28315/the-10-unluckiest-fictional-airlines-in-cinema |archive-date=2013-11-25 |website=Den of Geek}}
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