Talk:Nations Air

Greencountryspirit (talk) 07:05, 6 March 2010 (UTC) I was a flight attendant with Nations Air and flew as the "Purser" on many flights from the Chicago - Nassau-Jamica  for Air Jamaica and then not long after worked for the rightly failed "New PanAm" always as a Nations Air Crew. You would have to have been there to understand. Lots of great experiences. Lots of challenges being so small. I was lucky to move on to United Airlines just as we were going bankrupt but the owner Mr Macdonald(?spelling) was making sure we were paid for each trip - thank you! I would also say what a disappointment it was to get to that grand old carrier and find the training could not measure up to Nation's Air safety and first aid training. Even my first airline - American Eagle had much better evac and first aid than United - sorry after 7 years of flying with United I felt better trained with both smaller airlines. Chris Burnett - San Francisco

I recall Nations Air from their Boston <> Philadephia route. The year was 1993-1994. My fiance and I had been taking Amtrak to visit each other every other weekend.

Nations Air was great. We gave up the train and took the plane.

We even got friendly with the flight crew.

The article needs more time bounding and facts. When did Nations Air start ? When did Nations Air start their routes ? How many employees ?

I probably should try to dig through SEC filings to find out some of this info.

Mr. Grace 22:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

NATIONS AIR
I worked for Nations Air for a few years, and we had a BLAST!! When I was there the Philly - Pit - Boston routes were no longer being serviced.

We mostly did service to Atlantic City, Myrtle Beach, and then Gulfport towards the end, with the 737.

Before that we did some Air Jamaica flying, Aero Costa Rica, Air Aruba, and a little bit of PanAm with the 727.

This was my first airline, and I made a lot of friends, most I'm still in contact with.

Shame it couldn't have been run by someone who knew SOMETHING about the airline industry!!

RayHomermo 16:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Addition possibly:
My dad worked for these guys also as a copilot, I think before he worked for (strangely enough) ValueJet.

Anyway, he's told me stories of when airlines went under, saying fuel trucks would pull up at the gate and ask the pilot to pay with a credit card to fuel the plane, since the company's check bounced.

I have no way to verify this, and my dad quit before his checks started bouncing (the stories are second- and third-hand), but it would certainly make an interesting addition to the article (or some other article).

He also worked for another little tiny defunct airline, Private Jet. He is now at United (since 1996). Yay for irrelevant background information.

Hear me today and believe me next week.... BlackOpSource (talk) 16:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)