FlyUS

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FlyUS logo in GTA IV

FlyUS is an airline prominently featured in the Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Description

FlyUS is depicted in GTA IV to function as a major carrier, with advertising implying that the airliner offers business class, as well as international and domestic flights. Additional advertising promote two-way trips to specific destinations, including Las Venturas (starting at $200), Los Santos (starting at $299) and Vice City (starting at $300).

With offices based at Francis International Airport (FIA) in Dukes, Liberty City, FlyUS' physical presence at FIA is made more evidence with the appearances of service vehicles bearing the FlyUS name, including airport transit variants of the Feroci and Perennial, as well as the Ripley pushback and Airtug light tug.

The FlyUS fleet includes a number of Boeing 747 jumbo jets, as well as Shamal-like commuter aircraft, which can be found parked around FIA. FlyUS jumbo jets may also be seen roaming around FIA's runways, as well as being airborne, circling the whole of Liberty City (interestingly, these planes constantly extend their landing gears despite never landing).

The airline's livery is similar to liveries of the previous generation United Airlines, and its name is seemingly a nod to airlines that adopt the "United States" abbreviation in their name, such as US Airways. The name may be a pun of "flyers", the zip of one's pants, or "fly us", a sexual slang term that, unsurprising, is about having sex.

FlyUS' slogan in GTA IV is "Live a little, Fly with US".

Trivia

• Coincidentally, "FlyUs" is also the name of a Dutch/Belgium cargo carrier in real-life. Similarly, the company's corporate logo bears a degree of semblance to the FlyUS logo (including the color use and distribution of colors among the logo's text).

Gallery

• A FlyUS jumbo airliner taxiing on a runway, GTA IV.

  A FlyUS jumbo airliner taxiing on a runway, GTA IV.

• A parked FlyUS commuter aircraft at FIA, GTA IV.

  A parked FlyUS commuter aircraft at FIA, GTA IV.

• FlyUS offices on the northern side of FIA in GTAIV.

  FlyUS offices on the northern side of FIA in GTAIV.

• A FlyUS Feroci, GTA IV.

  A FlyUS Feroci, GTA IV.

• A FlyUS Perennial, GTA IV.

  A FlyUS Perennial, GTA IV.

• A FlyUS Ripley, GTA IV.

  A FlyUS Ripley, GTA IV.

• A FlyUS Airtug, GTA IV.

  A FlyUS Airtug, GTA IV.