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Oceanic Airlines has been used in other pop culture entertainment shows and it always seems to be coinciding with some kind of disaster. From Wikipedia:
Oceanic Airlines is a fictional airline used on television and in movies, not to be confused with real airlines Trans-Oceanic Airways and Ocean Airlines.
Producers of the 1996 movie Executive Decision filmed extensive exterior aerial footage using an actual Boeing 747 painted with the fictional airline's livery. The footage has been reused in a large number of films and television shows.
The ABC TV series Lost also features Oceanic Airlines, but does not feature recycled stock footage from Executive Decision, and uses its own Oceanic Airlines logo.
The novel Last Resort features Oceanic Airlines as the owner of the 747 that was skyjacked by Iraqi terrorists and crashed into the capitol.
The portrayal of Oceanic Airlines as being disaster-prone has become something of an inside joke among television and movie fans: for example, popular TV review site Television Without Pity
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 Oceanic slogan from Lost seems especially apt for the
danger-prone airline: "Taking You Places You've Never Imagined!", as
does its logo: a highly stylized Australian dot painting resembling a bulls-eye or an island.
In the spin-off info backing up and evolving the mystery of Lost, the Hanso Foundation recently bought and renamed Oceanic Airlines as HansoAir.
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