Oceanic Airlines Oceanic Airlines Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Air"ways," is the name of a fictional airline used in several films, television programs, and comic books; typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated. The brand is used prominently in the TV series "Lost," where Oceanic Airlines is featured branded with a highly stylized logo depicting an Australian Aboriginal dot painting that resembles a nazar, a bullseye, an island, or an "O." The show's fictional storyline begins with the crash of an airline flight called Oceanic Flight 815.
RMS Oceanic (1870) "Oceanic" established the White Star Line as the arbiter of comfort on the North Atlantic". "Oceanic" left for her maiden voyage from Liverpool on 2 March 1871 carrying only 64 passengers, under Captain Sir Digby Murray. Not long after departing, she had to return because of overheated bearings. Her voyage restarted on 16 March. From that point onward, "Oceanic" was a success for the White Star Line. She was to be the first of a series of six sister ships constructed in rapid succession: "Atlantic", "Baltic", "Republic", "Celtic" and "Adriatic". All were of the same approximate dimensions with differences in