Oceanic Airlines

Oceanic Airlines (sometimes called Oceanic Airways) is a fictional airline used in several films and television programs.

The Oceanic Airlines logo from the ABC television series Lost.

Its most famous appearance is in Lost, where Oceanic Airlines is featured branded with a highly-stylized logo depicting an Aboriginal dot painting that resembles a bullseye, an island, or an "O" (for Oceanic). The show's storyline begins with the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 on a mysterious island.

The airline has also been featured in many other media. The original occurrence of Oceanic Airways was in the 1996 film Executive Decision. The film's producers shot extensive footage of an actual Boeing 747 but with a different logo and livery to that used on the later Lost Oceanic flight. This stock footage has been reused in several films and television programs, spreading the Oceanic Airlines brand across various and unrelated fictional universes.

Occurrences of Oceanic Airlines

The following sources feature Oceanic Airlines:

Original

• Executive Decision: Oceanic Flight 343 from Athens to Washington, DC was skyjacked by Islamic terrorists.
• For Love Of The Game: An Oceanic flight is announced over the PA system in the airport lounge near the end of the movie.
• Nowhere to Land: A Boeing 747-200 from Sydney to LAX flying with a bomb programmed to detonate one hour prior to landing at LAX.
• Code 11-14: an FBI agent searches for a murderer aboard Oceanic Flight 816, a Boeing 747SP, bound for Los Angeles from Sydney.
• Lost: The show explores the aftermath of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles. The producers of Lost also created a website for the fictional airline, including clues and references to the show's plot. In flashforwards, a group of the characters that survive the crash are nicknamed the "Oceanic Six" (Hurley, Kate, Jack, Sayid, Sun, and Aaron).
• Alias: Oceanic's flight to Sydney is briefly mentioned in an announcement when the show's lead character Sydney Bristow is at Los Angeles International Airport. Alias and Lost were both created by J. J. Abrams.
• LAX: 01.13 "Senator's Daughter" (first aired 16 April 2006): Advertisements and computers in airport terminals in LAX read "Oceanic Airlines".
• Pushing Daisies: 01.01 "Pie-lette" (02 October 2007): An Oceanic Airlines advertisement is displayed in the travel agency.
• Chuck: 01.02 "Chuck versus the Helicopter" (01 October 2007): Chuck is viewing a series of photographs when one prompts him to recall the secret information to which he had been exposed by Bryce Larkin. He begins revealing apparently unconnected secrets, including, "Oceanic Flight 815 was shot down by a surface-to-air..."
• Fringe: 01.09 "The Dreamscape" (25 November 2008): When the FBI was checking the apartment of a murdered Massive Dynamic employee, Agent Olivia Dunham found an airline ticket from Oceanic Airlines. The flight destination printed on the ticket was Omaha, Nebraska, and the date of the flight, 22 December.
• Alex: Bankers Alex Masterley and Clive Reed appear as the only survivors of an Oceanic Airlines aircrash in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
• Flash Forward: When the two policemen are staking out taking photos of a woman, you can see a billboard has Oceanic Airlines and the logo.

Reused footage

Stock footage from Executive Decision was also reused in the following:

• After the Sunset: In the trailer, Max and Lola fly on Oceanic Airlines to their retreat in The Bahamas. The footage does not appear in the film's final cut.
• Category 6: Day of Destruction: Oceanic Flight 762 was forced to make an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport after being struck by lightning. During landing, the hole in the aircraft's fuselage from Executive Decision is visible.
• Diagnosis: Murder: 04.23 "Murder in The Air" (24 April 1997): Flying between Los Angeles International Airport and Switzerland on Oceanic Flight 456, Dr Mark Sloan and Amanda Bentley carry out an airborne investigation after the first officer is murdered and several aircrew personnel are incapacitated by a mysterious illness.
• JAG: 03.06 "Vanished" (28 October 1997): an Oceanic Airlines flight to Washington, D.C. carrying a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization is the target of a terrorist plot involving a missing United States Navy F-14 Tomcat.
• JAG: 05.18 "The Bridge at Kang So Ri" (29 February 2000): Oceanic Flight 343 is skyjacked by North Korean extremists who accuse a passenger of ordering a massacre during the Korean War.
• Nowhere to Land (2000 television movie): A man suffering from mental illness brings a deadly nerve agent on board Oceanic Flight 762, also from Sydney to Los Angeles, in the run-up to the 2000 Summer Olympics. At takeoff, the hole in the aircraft's fuselage from Executive Decision is visible.
• Panic in the Skies! (1996): A Royce Air International Boeing 747 is struck by lightning shortly after takeoff in America, en route for Europe. In some scenes, the Royce Air International logo is not visible, with Oceanic Airline markings in their place.
• The War at Home: 01.20 "The West Palm Beach Story" (16 April 2006), which featured a gag about a Middle Eastern man and the threat of airborne terrorism on board an Oceanic Airlines flight.

List of fictional Oceanic Airlines flights

Flight number	Incident description	Occurrence	Aircraft used
816	Serial killer pursued by FBI agent on aircraft.	Code 11-14	Boeing 747SP
815	Explosive decompression caused by electromagnetic pulse.	Lost	Boeing 777, Delta Lockheed L-1011 Tristar used as prop wreckage
815	Shot down by surface-to-air missile.	Chuck: 01.02 "Chuck versus the Helicopter"
762	Forced landing caused by lightning strike.	Category 6: Day of Destruction	Boeing 747-400
762	Nerve agent attack threatened by mental illness sufferer.	Nowhere to Land	Boeing 747-200
456	First officer murdered in-flight and aircrew members afflicted by illness.	Diagnosis: Murder: 04.23 "Murder in the Air"
343	Skyjacking by Islamic terrorists; aircraft retaken in-flight by special forces.	Executive Decision	Boeing 747-200
343	Skyjacking by North Korean extremists; aircraft retaken in-flight by JAG personnel.	JAG: 05.18 "The Bridge at Kang So Ri"
017	Aircraft ditched in the Atlantic Ocean, 80 miles south of Miami, Florida.	Flipper: 02.07 "The Ditching"
009	Walter Matthau kisses co-star Dyan Cannon and terror ensues.	Out to Sea

External links

• Boeing 747-121 at Airliners.net. A photographic history of the Boeing 747 filmed in Executive Decision.
• Boeing 747-SP at Airliners.net. A photographic history of the Boeing 747 used during the filming of Code 11-14.
• Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 at Airliners.net. A photographic history of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar dismantled for the set of Lost.
• Oceanic Airlines. Alleged official website. Maintained by ABC. Includes Easter eggs from Lost.
• http://www.oceanicflight815.com. Official Lost website.