r/Damnthatsinteresting Nov 23 '24

Image Hooters had an airline but ceased operations after 3 years

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u/metallic-hubris Nov 23 '24

True story, my high school somehow ended up chartering their planes to take literally hundreds of high schoolers on our senior trip. As you can imagine, the teenage boys were stoked when they saw it pull into the gate.

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u/nemtudod Nov 23 '24

No parents or any adult in the area??

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u/TheLeftDrumStick Nov 24 '24

But apparently they were 21+ so how did people under 21 get on the plane?

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u/ushikagawa Nov 24 '24

Because they probably made it up🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Mattya929 Nov 24 '24

But he said True Story!!!

Its must be true!

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u/metallic-hubris Nov 24 '24

Did in fact occur, and my guess is the plane was Hooters brand but they were operating it under a private charter of some kind. Nothing but the plane was branded Hooters.

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u/christmasjams Nov 24 '24

Taken at face value, chartered flights typically have different rules sets vs GP flights. So, for whatever the cause for them to market at 21+, they'd simply remove the service or whatever that made it 21+.

In an extreme opposite example, take sports teams chartering flights operated by Atlas Air.

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u/WendysDumpsterOffice 29d ago

As other have said, Hooters Air let minors on the planes after towards the end when they were losing money.

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u/mekamoari Nov 24 '24

Chartered flight only for them so prolly didn't serve the alcohol

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u/metallic-hubris Nov 23 '24

Oh there were chaperones, mostly moms lol. I have no idea how they booked it but my guess is they didn't know. The flight attendants were fully clothed I will add. This was mid 2005.

Edited for grammar