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Oceanic Airlines is a fictional airline used in several television shows and movies. It is not to be confused with the real airlines Trans-Oceanic Airways and Ocean Airlines.
The portrayal of Oceanic Airlines as a disaster-prone company has become something of an inside joke in the television and film industries. Popular TV review site Television Without Pity, for example, sold a set of limited edition shirts and messenger bags branded with an Oceanic Airlines logo and the slogan "Getting halfway there is all the fun!" The airline's slogan in the ABC TV series Lost is especially apt for a danger-prone airline: "Taking You Places You've Never Imagined!"
In Lost, in which Oceanic Airlines is branded with a highly stylized logo featuring an Australian dot painting resembling a bulls-eye or an island, the story revolves around the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 on a mysterious island and the events that follow. But the airline has been portrayed in many other forms. Producers of the 1996 film Executive Decision shot extensive aerial footage using an actual Boeing 747 painted with the fictional airline's logo and livery, and this footage has been reused many times, bringing the fake brand to many other films and television shows.







