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.
American Trans-Oceanic Company also included a full-time flight school in Long Island and Palm Beach using Curtiss aircraft. New innovations were deployed, such as a Sperry autopilot. Rates varied from $15 for a 15-minute flight to $250 for a 320-mile flight to Cuba. Four five-hour flights a week were flown to Bimini at night. By 1918, the company carried four to five thousand passengers without incident. The company's most distinctive aircraft was "Big Fish", A Curtiss H-16 painted as a fish that flew between Palm Beach, Havana, Nassau, and New York City. In 1927, Wanamaker sponsored Richard E. Byrd through the American Trans-Oceanic