History Main / OceanicAirlines

* An early episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' mentions [[Series/{{Lost}} Oceanic Flight 815]] being shot down in passing.
* In ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' episode "Smother's Day", Murray gives Adam Oceanic Airline tickets to Houston.
* The earliest mention of the airline comes from the ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' two-part episode "The Ditching", originally broadcast on October 30 and November 6, 1965. Sandy and Flipper fly aboard Oceanic Airlines Flight 17 (a Douglas DC-3 instead of the jet planes the airline usually operates), which naturally crashes into the sea.

* In ''VideoGame/MicrosoftFlightSimulator X'', one of the fictitious airlines you can control is named "Oceana Airlines", possibly as a ShoutOut from this trope.

The same thing is done with the [[{{defictionalisation}} now real]] shipping company "Pacific Courier," which brought the terrorists in a truck to the Nakatomi Building in ''Film/DieHard'', had one of their trucks blown up along with Bonwit Teller in ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', and one of their planes is destroyed by the bus explosion in ''Film/{{Speed}}''.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': An Oceanic Airlines flight to Sydney was mentioned in passing.

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has an ad for Oceanic.
* An Oceanic plane crash kicks off ''Series/{{Lost}}''. This revitalised modern usage of the trope by way of a ShoutOut.

* ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}'': Dang comes across a crashed passenger jet which is sporting an Oceanic Airlines logo.

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* ''Series/FlashForward2009'': An Oceanic Airlines ad appeared during the pilot episode.

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* The original example is the 1996 film ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'', about a team of commandos ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Kurt Russell]]) performing an in-flight infiltration of an airliner that has been hijacked by terrorists intent on using it to [[HarsherInHindsight attack Washington, DC]]. Aerial from this film was reused in other films and TV shows as a cost-saving measure, causing Oceanic Air to get plenty of free PR.

* An Oceanic plane crash kicks off ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Also revitalised modern usage of this trope by way of ShoutOut.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': An Oceanic Airlines (how typical) flight to Seoul gets hijacked by South Korean radicals in 5th season episode "The Bridge at Kang So Ri". Luckily enough our heroes take care of the situation.

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The same thing is done with the fictional shipping company "Pacific Courier," which brought the terrorists in a truck to the Nakatomi Building in ''Film/DieHard'', had one of their trucks blown up along with Bonwit Teller in ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', and one of their planes is destroyed by the bus explosion in ''Film/{{Speed}}''.

A form of FictionalCounterpart specific to airlines.

* ''Fanfic/NewPerspectiveEvangelion'': The plane crash was an Oceanic Airlines flight, and the airline is apparently run by one John Locke.

* An Oceanic plane crash kicks off ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}'': Dang comes across a crashed passenger jet which is sporting an Oceanic Airlines logo

Those who fly Oceanic are apparently not very GenreSavvy.

* An early episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' mentions [[Series/{{Lost}} Oceanic flight 815]] being shot down in passing.

* ''FlashForward2009'': An Oceanic Airlines ad appeared during the pilot episode.

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* ''WebVideo/StrawberryDragonProject'': From Episode 3: "Oceanic Airlines denies all responsibility."
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* ''StrawberryDragonProject'': From Episode 3: "Oceanic Airlines denies all responsibility."

Quite often, when a story calls for a plane crash, an in-flight incident, or some other misfortune to happen to a passenger plane or airline service, Hollywood (and sometimes other media) decides to name the service Oceanic Airlines. Naturally, real airline services wouldn't want to associate with these stories, since it would imply to the audiences that their service is unreliable. Nevertheless, it's bizarre, almost uncanny, that Oceanic Airlines keeps popping up in totally unrelated stories.

Part of this is due to PropRecycling and StockFootage: For the film ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'', a pair of Boeing 747s were painted up in the [[NoseArt livery]] of a fictional airline, Oceanic Airways. The aerial shots were reused in other works (because putting a pair of planes in the air just to film one of them in flight is expensive), and the planes themselves saw use in later films. From there, [[MemeticMutation a tradition was born.]]

* The original example is the 1996 film ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'', about a team of commandos ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Kurt Russell]]) performing an in-flight infiltration of an airliner that has been hijacked by terrorists intent on using it to [[HarsherInHindsight attack Washington D.C.]] Aerial from this film was reused in other films and TV shows as a cost-saving measure, causing Oceanic Air to get plenty of free PR.

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* An Oceanic plane crash kicks off ''{{Lost}}''.

* An early episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' mentions [[{{Lost}} Oceanic flight 815]] being shot down in passing.

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* In ''TheWolfAmongUs'', an Oceanic advertisement is seen on the roof of a taxi.

Quite often, when a story calls for a plane crash, an in-flight incident, or some other misfortune to happen to a passenger plane or airline service, Hollywood (and sometimes other media) decides to name the service Oceanic Airlines. Naturally, real airline services wouldn't want to associate with these stories, since it would imply to the audiences that their service is unreliable. Nevertheless, it's bizarre, almost uncanny, that Oceanic Airlines keeps popping up in totally unrelated stories.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', episode "Möbius Dick": half an Oceanic Airline plane is seen in the [[TheBermudaTriangle Bermuda Tetrahedron]] when Planet Express crew flees from the SpaceWhale.