Curiosities 1 - An airline you will probably never use: Janet Airlines

João Henrique Barboza Jorgetto • Aug 27, 2022

The world is connected by the thousands of airlines that fly daily around the globe. From Brazil, with one-stop or another, you can get wherever you want, whether Orlando or Baghdad. Today more than 5000 companies are operating worldwide, connecting destinations and shortening distances.

But there is one company that is very, very, very difficult for you to take off on a flight. 

Do you know this company above? The company's name is well known, her route too, but her passengers not at all. This is JANET Airlines!

JANET supposedly stands for "Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation." However, some believe it stands for "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal," which is a nickname given by the researchers to the company that makes daily flights from the McCarran airport, in Las Vegas, to an American base located in the middle of the desert. It is a little weird, right?

The case gets even stranger when you discover that the destination is precisely Groom Lake, in the famous Area 51. Every day 1500 "employees" of the base and other "guests" are taken, all through JANET. Their aircraft are painted white, with a red stripe running down the side. The US Federal Government, as it did with Area 51, does not deny or confirm the existence of these flights, even though they operate daily in Las Vegas.

Images source: Planespotters.net