When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.

When Chalk's International Airlines existed, its headquarters was on the grounds of the airport in an unincorporated area.

When both towers collapsed during the September 11 attacks in 2001, ten employees died ; one on American Airlines Flight 11, and nine others ( Thomas F. Swift, Wesley Mercer, Jennifer de Jesus, Joseph DiPilato, Nolbert Salomon, Godwin Forde, Steve R. Strauss, Lindsay C. Herkness, Albert Joseph, Jorge Velazquez, Titus Davidson, and Charles Laurencin ) in the towers, including Security Director Rick Rescorla.

When United Airlines acquired Pan Am's Latin American operations, the airline carried on operating a focus city out of Concourse F until completely dismantling it by 2004.

When it existed, Sterling Airlines had its head office at Copenhagen Airport South in Dragør.

When Cargo B Airlines existed, its head office was in the Brucargo Building 706 in Zaventem.

When American Airlines Flight 11 flew by overhead, Jules turned the camera to follow the plane and taped one of only three known recordings of the first plane hitting the North Tower ( Tower 1 ) of the World Trade Center, the others being a video shot by Pavel Hlava and a sequence of still frames taken by Wolfgang Staehle.

When the trade sanctions were lifted in early 1999, Libyan Arab Airlines could rebuilt its international network, and order new aircraft from manufacturers like Airbus, Bombardier or ATR.

Monarch Airlines serves the airport from its various UK bases as part of its programme of ski flights, as well as Christmas specials and flights in support of the When You Wish Upon A Star children's foundation.

When averaging just mainline carriers Southwest Airlines carries the most passengers averaging about 17. 5 % of the traffic out of the airport.

When the hub was shut down, the Chautauqua Airlines code share was discontinued, leaving Mesa as the sole operator of AW Express services.

When American Airways ( now American Airlines ) began their Atlanta, Georgia to Fort Worth, Texas route, Birmingham was not included in the route because their Ford Tri-Motor aircraft could not land at Roberts Field.

When Continental Airlines took People over in 1987, they moved operations into the main terminal and shared gate space with American.

When Acapulco was extremely popular airlines such as Delta Air Lines, American Air Lines, US Airways, United Airlines, British Airways and Alitalia connected Acapulco to various European and American cities.

When the name Yugoslav Airlines first appeared on aircraft in 1950, the airline had a simple, mainly white livery.

When Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) acquired jet aircraft such as Boeing 720s, however, Walton was unable to handle the large aircraft.

When Trans-Texas Airways changed its name to Texas International Airlines, the company ran newspaper ads showing a Tinker Toy airplane flying along treetops.

When Bethune took over in 1994 as COO and President of Continental Airlines the troubled airline had twice faced bankruptcy and was again headed that direction.

When Armavia ( which was owned by Siberia Airlines ) entered into an agreement with the Armenian government and was granted most of Armenian Airlines ' flight rights, including the lucrative Yerevan to Moscow route, Armenian Airlines was unable to recover, and officially declared bankruptcy on April 15, 2003.

When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower ( 1 WTC ), the landing gear fell into the roof of the Marriott hotel.

When Scoot Airlines begins operations in June 2012, SIA Cargo will manage the bellyhold capacity of the aircraft.

When incorporated in 2001, all nine Singapore Airlines ' Boeing 747 freighters were transferred to the new cargo start-up at market value, and henceforth, all new freighter purchases were to be made from the new company's books.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

When one of the two programmers left CompuNet, the remaining programmer, Alan Lenton, decided to rewrite the game from scratch and named it Federation II ( at the time no Federation I existed ).

When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.

When the Germans asked him to declare himself in favour of their desire for national unity, he replied that he would not as this would weaken the Habsburg state: “ Truly, if it were not that Austria had long existed, it would be necessary, in the interest of Europe, in the interest of humanity itself, to create it .”

When the temporal weapon fires on an object, it moves that object outside the space-time continuum, eliminating the object from causality not only in the present and the future, but also the past, changing history to a state where the object never existed.

When it began, North and South Korea existed as provisional governments competing for control over the Korean peninsula, due to the division of Korea by outside powers.

When the sea otter finally received federal protection in 1911, Washington's sea otter had been hunted to extinction, and although a small remnant population still existed in British Columbia, it soon died out.

When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.

When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Swahili commercial settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries.

When Air Mauritanie existed, its head office was in the city.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When the Fourth Red Army under Zhang Guotao was formed in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border area from several smaller units, no standard nomenclature of the armies of the Communist Party existed ; moreover, during the Chinese Civil War central control of separate Communist-controlled enclaves within China was limited.

When Bimini Island Air existed, its headquarters were in an unincorporated area.

When the Temple existed, most sacrifices and offerings could only be conducted by priests.

When the airline Busy Bee of Norway existed, its head office was on the grounds of Fornebu Airport.

When we hear the word ' matriarchy ', we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed ; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination, of mothers dominating children, of women being cruel to men.

When Mendeleev proposed his periodic table, he noted gaps in the table, and predicted that as-yet unknown elements existed with properties appropriate to fill those gaps.

When the Romans took control of Egypt, the Roman legal system which existed throughout the Roman Empire was imposed in Egypt.

When the district existed, it operated Lucilia Wood Elementary School and Elaine High School.

When it existed, Crown Books had its headquarters in Lake Arbor.

When Air Holland existed, its head office was in Oude Meer, Haarlemmermeer.