Airlines in films

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If the film script requires an aircraft to crash, explode, or face some other airborne disaster, there is less likelihood that a real airline will want to be associated with it. A fictitious name, livery and airline call sign are commonly employed, such as the popular brand Oceanic Airlines. Airlines will rarely use a film which involves - or even mentions - an air crash as an in flight movie, or will edit it out. For instance, in the film Get Shorty a brief scene showing a plane crash was replaced with footage of a train crash.^{[citation needed]}

In some cases however, some made for television movies will feature the actual airlines. Examples include The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story with TWA, Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 with United, and Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac with Air Florida. Other movies will change names, those examples include Miracle Landing (Paradise Airlines instead of Aloha Airlines) and Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (Canadian World Airlines instead of Air Canada).

In cheaper films characters sometimes depart in one type of airliner and arrive in another, or to depart and arrive at the same airport, even though the script implies that they are travelling elsewhere. Low budget films sometimes exhibit a discontinuity between the aircraft seen and the soundtrack heard, as producers assume that all jets sound the same. A film can soon look dated if a real airline features prominently, because that airline may collapse, change its livery or merge with another. One notable example of this was 2001: A Space Odyssey which contained references to Pan Am spaceflights, although the actual Pan Am went bankrupt in the 1990s.

References to Pan Am also appeared in Blade Runner, which was released in 1982 but set in 2019, and the airline originally went bankrupt in 1991 (Pan Am is currently operating again, although on a much smaller route network than before).

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• List of films featuring trains