McAirways

McAirways (shortened to McAir; stylized in lowercase) was an airline that was a joint-venture between American Airlines and McDonald's. The airline had a very distinctive design in the interior of the plane. American Airlines went for a five-year venture, but unfortunately, the airline didn't attract many customers, so American Airlines announced the closure of McAirways on December 22nd, 2001. McAir ceased operations on February 12th, 2002.

History
The company was announced by McDonald's in November 1999, in a commercial. The announcement was described as “McDonald's will soon be on the air”, many people thought McDonald's menu items will be on specific airlines, but that wasn't the case. On November 25th, McDonald's partnered with American Airlines to launch a new McDonald's-branded airline. Many names were decided, like McDonald's Airlines, McAirlines, but they settled on McAirways. McAir was founded on December 19th, 1999, the airline launched the next day. McAir was a new airline, that had a very advanced and pretty good design inside. Apart from the exterior, which was white, with the logo slapped on it.

Swissair lawsuit
On January 2nd, 2000, Swissair filed a lawsuit against the airline, for trademark rights. The company said that McAir stolen the idea from Swissair's logo, and made it their own. McDonald's won the lawsuit.

Decline
In 2001, sales began to slump, with McAir loosing almost the market share for McDonald's. Many people weren't very interested in the airline, and criticism would take its place. In March, McAir failed to pay incidents that happened in the airline, like a woman vomited on the walls of the plane. McAir was now the worst airline in the U.S.

Closure
On January 1st, 2002, McAir filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As a part of their bankruptcy, they were forced to sell a small chunk of their fleets back to American Airlines. While the rest were sold back to Boeing, for refurbishments. By February 4th, they exited from bankruptcy, and only had 3 fleets left. But as they struggled to increase sales, McDonald's sold the stakes back to American Airlines, that meant the airline was only operated by American Airlines, and was no longer related to the fast food chain. But later, American sold the airline too. No buyer was interested in buying the company, and as they struggled to find a buyer, they filed again, but this time converted to Chapter 7, which meant serious liquidation. By February 11th, 2002, McAir's final fleets were sold off. McAir's headquarters were closed, and later McAir was soon dissolved.

Accidents and incidents

 * Flight 65: On June 1st, 2000, McAirways Flight 65, a Boeing 767, was departing from Florida to Texas. Just as it was almost to Texas, the pilot fell ill and the plane suffered a turbulence, the plane landed violently on the grass, as the wheels broke off. Thankfully, no one was hurt.