Midway Airlines
Midway Airlines is an airline carrier out of North Carolina that existed for a brief stint between 1993 and 2003. During Midway Airlines’ ten year reign, they had nearly 200 flights going out every day from Raleigh Durham International Airport in Raleigh, North Carolina. Midway operated using a fleet of 33 planes, all of which could be headed in one of any of 33 destinations at one time. Chicago was one of Midway’s destinations of choice, and they happened to have code sharing agreements with British Airways for London travel as well.

Midway Airlines had a great home page on the web, but as the airline is no longer in service, the website has been discontinued. Midway Airlines and Midway Express Airline passengers were able to look up their reservations on the internet and use promotional coupon codes to secure special deals on certain flights.

Right after the turn of the century, Midway Airlines fell into some economic hard times and laid off thousands of their employees after filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. The term laid off implies that all ties were severed with these former employees; so much so that their airport access cards were deactivated within a matter of hours, to discourage any funny business that might occur as a result of the unpopular pink slips.

Midway Airlines did their best to continue operations with meager resources, but the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had a major impact on the airline industry and Midway Airlines closed its doors the very next day on September 12, 2001. Midway Airlines stopped using their brand name immediately and came under a US Airlines carrier at one point, as it sold all of its fleet except for six small jets that they use to operate for US airlines.

Midway Airlines no longer exists, but just because the country is no more does not mean that you can’t take advantage of the great service they had to offer. Midway Airlines does have some remnants of its former self operating under US Airlines with the fleet the company managed to retain. Not every business makes it, and that is okay as the September 11 attacks were enough to weigh down on any business, let alone an airline company struggling to keep afloat as it is.