Nomads Travel Club
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The travel club was founded in 1965 with a small propeller aircraft.[1][2] The airline was founded at a time when air travel was expensive. The founders of the travel club were veteran flyer Joseph Benich and Detroit Recorder's Court Judge Joseph A. Gillis Jr. These men along with local buisnessmen started the airline in August of 1965.[3]
At its peak the club had 12,000 members and operated its own aircraft.[2] The airline was the largest travel club in the United States and operated many aircraft. It reportedly had a flight where the destinations was randomized in 2001 and was for a time the only travel club to operate its own aircraft which was a singular Boeing 727.[2]
Nomads Travel Club ceased to exist on March 1 2011.[1][4] A new travel club called NexTour was founded shortly after.[5]