SkyLiners Airlines
 SkyLiners Airlines logo | |||||||
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| Version introduced | 0.5.4 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 1920 (as Bad Air) | ||||||
| Hubs | Greenfield-International | ||||||
| Frequent-flyer program | Dividend Miles | ||||||
| Headquarters | Detroit, Michigan | ||||||
| Key people | Cooth, Kirā Watashi | ||||||
SkyLiners is a major US-based airline. It is the second largest airline behind Vision Airlines in the USA. Skyliners, together with its regional partners and affiliates, operates an extensive international and domestic network.
History
SkyLiners was founded in 1908 when 19 year old Jayne Nibblesby, a desperate engineer and entrepreneur, first heard about the historic first flight of the Wrogne Brothers. Upon hearing the news, Jayne came up with the idea for a type of paid transport using flying machines. This idea would eventually become commercial airlines. Nibblesby founded the commercial airline Bad Air in 1920 out of Detroit with a fleet of hastily kitbashed airplanes and serviced flights to wherever the customer wished. The flights were far from safe, sporting no seatbelts or seats and more often than not ran out of fuel before clearing the homemade runway.
At the beginning of World War 2, the U.S. Army took an interest in the now much larger Bad Air commercial airline's custom airplanes after noticing their surprisingly large range and durability. Coincidentally, the Japanese military took a similar interest in the custom airplanes. Nibblesby secretly sold the patent to both militaries without either side noticing, and made 240 million U.S. dollars off of it.
On December 7th 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy performed a devastating strike on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor using Nibblesby's aircraft, sparking a huge controversy for the company and resulting in the U.S. military halting progress on the 24 under construction Bad Air brand airports around the United States. Construction would resume, however, after no evidence of the patent being sold to Japan was found.
During the 1950s, competition with other airlines started to heighten as Bad Air expanded to other countries and the tourism industry took full form. Unwanted tensions started piling on Nibblesby and Bad Air due to the competition and ultimately concluded with Jayne Nibblesby's gruesome assassination on November 7th 1964. The body was found mutilated beyond recognition cycling through the baggage system of Tokyo Haneda Airport Terminal 3. Many theories as to who committed the murder have been created by the public, although no killer was ever found.
After the CEO's death, the airline was rebranded to SkyLiners under the new management of Nibblesby's assistant, Kirā Watashi. Watashi would go on to being the company's most profitable CEO, generating over 17 billion dollars per year during the 1970s and 1980s (inflation adjusted).
By the late 1980s, SkyLiners was the largest airline in the United States, Leading the Face Race by almost half with Vision Airlines.
On September 11th, 2001, a devastating terrorist attack on the Unites States took place, tightening SkyLiners security and protection measures aboard planes and in terminals. SkyLiners also updated their logo with the World Trade Center twin towers out of respect for the victims.
On May 14th 2021, now called the Heaven's Stairway Incident, over 60 planes from many different airlines mysteriously vanished without a trace. SkyLiners had only one plane disappear however, flight 640 from Greenfield en-route to Halifax mysteriously disappeared with all hands while flying approximately over Columbus, Ohio. All occupants perished without a trace, and no trace of flight 640 or any other missing flights from that day have surfaced.
After the incident, Vision Airlines took the lead for largest airline in the USA, placing SkyLiners behind it in second place.
Destinations
Hubs
Fleet
- Boeing 737-800
- Boeing 757-200
- Boeing 767-300ER
- Boeing 777-200ER
- Boeing 787-9