thumb|right|The Oceanic Airlines logo, from the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC TV series Lost.]]

Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Airways, is the name of a fictional airline used in several films and television programs—typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.

History

Oceanic Airlines first appeared in the 1965 two-part episode "The Ditching" of the television series Flipper. Appearances since include the 1996 film Executive Decision, the 2004–2010 television series Lost, the 2011 video game Dead Island, and a number of others.

Ill-fated

The fictional airline typically appears in works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated. The crash and ground scenes were filmed at Mojave Airport with a different aircraft, a retired Boeing 747-121. It stayed there retired after the filming, painted in Oceanic Airlines colors (with a dark hole painted on the fuselage), marked with the fake registration number N707CK; its actual registration numbers during service were N754PA, LX-FCV, and F-GIMJ.