Standard Airways

Many attempts were made to restart the airline until the CAB finally revoked its certificate in 1975.

Stardard Air Cargo also ran a fixed base operation at San Diego Lindbergh Field, its headquarters.

[3] The airline spent much of 1959 and 1960 not operating, before resuming in the second half of 1960 after its certificate was reissued to reflect a change of status from partnership to a Maryland[4] corporation.

[5] Standard started "Pink Cloud" service from the west coast to Hawaii using the limited scheduled part of its supplemental authority, which allowed it to fly 10 flights per month in each direction on any given city pair.

[12] Standard started flying again on 13 February 1966, on the strength of a promised recapitalization by a company called Southern Pipeliners of Hialeah, Florida[13] which then failed to happen.

[15] With Standard now healthy, the CAB permanently certificated it as a supplemental air carrier in August 1967.

[18] The announcement came just over a month after Standard's 7 February 1968 crash of a 707 at Vancouver in which two people lost their lives due to pilot error (see Accidents).

[20] In 1969 Standard rolled out charter service with Convair 440s, a piston aircraft from the 1950s, which the airline marketed as "Club 44".

[22] The airline cited two main factors contributing to its collapse:[23] among the factors leading to its demise the recent approval of group fares for scheduled airlines (shifting vacation traffic from charter carriers to scheduled) and the fact that its jet aircraft were not convertible (able to also fly cargo), making them less desirable to the military.

In 1975, in response to another application to recycle the Standard Airways certificate, the CAB noted there had been at least nine such attempts since the airline stopped operating and the company had been languishing as a "mere shell"[24] in bankruptcy since 24 September 1969.