World Airways, Inc. was an American airline headquartered in Peachtree City, Georgia in Greater Atlanta.

World Airways was founded on March 29, 1948 by Benjamin Pepper with the introduction of ex-Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boats.

World did not return to Đà Nẵng until April 17, 2002, then with an MD-11 aircraft to pick up a team of people resolving Missing-In-Action cases from the Vietnam War.

World's intention was to sell the routes for a profit to another airline rather than establishing their own operation on these routes, so the company operated fully crewed Boeing 727s (flight deck and cabin crew) without passengers, flying between the scheduled city pairs with touch and go landings and takeoffs.

During the first Persian Gulf War, World did a substantial amount of profitable business for the military, enabling the addition of the MD-11 to the fleet.

The airline received a substantial amount of its business from the military, especially in its role connecting American bases in the U.S. to the Middle East.

It also thrived on passenger and freight contracts with private organizations, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League,[6] as well as wet leases to other airlines.

[7] It was later acquired by ATA Holdings,[8] which was renamed Global Aero Logistics, in a transaction valued at $315 million.

On November 8, 2017, investment firm 777 Partners, announced it had acquired the intellectual property of World Airways, Inc. and planned to relaunch the airline as a low cost international carrier with a fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

Scheduled service began in the late 1970s with airline deregulation, starting April 11, 1979, ending September 15, 1986.

The company theme song in the early 1980s, featured at the beginning of the onboard aircraft safety videos and used for advertising, had an instrumental version that played on an easy listening radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area until new advertising was introduced in 1985.

[20] In 1987, headquarters moved to unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, near Herndon, in Greater Washington DC.