airline

See also: air line and Airline

English

Etymology

From air +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕr′-līn′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛəˌlaɪn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/

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Noun

airline (plural airlines)

1. A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
   • 1932, Amelia Earhart, “Air Trails of the Future”, in The Fun of It, page 205:

     But already there are some commercial air­lines in the United States which use airplanes cap­able of more than 200 miles an hour.

   • 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN‎:

     They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement. […] Other airlines managed to recover by early this week; at Southwest, the cancellations only increased.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with an air line, i.e., a route taken by flight.

Synonyms

• air carrier
• airway or airways

Derived terms

• airline alliance
• airline bag
• airline hostess
• airline mile
• airlinese
• airline seat
• airline steward
• airline stewardess
• airline ticket
• budget airline
• national airline
• nonairline

Related terms

• See "derived terms" at air.

Translations

company that flies airplanes

Afrikaans: lugdiens Albanian: linjë ajrore f Arabic: شَرِكَة طَيَرَان f (šarikat ṭayarān), خُطُوط جَوِيَّة m pl (ḵuṭūṭ jawiyya), خُطُوط طَيَرَان m pl (ḵuṭūṭ ṭayarān) Armenian: ավիաընկերություն (hy) (aviaənkerutʻyun) Azerbaijani: aviakompaniya Belarusian: авіякампа́нія f (avijakampánija), авіялі́ніі f pl (avijalínii) (normally used in airline names), авіяпрадпрые́мства n (avijapradpryjémstva) Bengali: এয়ারলাইন (eẏarlain) Bulgarian: авиокомпа́ния f (aviokompánija), авиоли́ния f (aviolínija) Burmese: လေကြောင်း (my) (le-kraung:) Catalan: aerolínia f Chinese: Cantonese: 航空公司 (hong4 hung1 gung1 si1) Mandarin: 航空公司 (zh) (hángkōng gōngsī) Czech: letecká společnost f, aerolinie (cs) f pl, aerolinka (cs) f Danish: flyselskab n Dutch: luchtvaartmaatschappij (nl) f Esperanto: flugkompanio Estonian: lennufirma, lennukompanii, lennuliin Faroese: flogfelag n Finnish: lentoyhtiö (fi) French: compagnie aérienne (fr) f, ligne aérienne (fr) f Galician: aeroliña f, compañía aérea Georgian: ავიაკომპანია (aviaḳomṗania), ავიახაზები (aviaxazebi) German: Fluggesellschaft (de) f, Airline (de) f Greek: αερογραμμή (el) f (aerogrammí) Hebrew: חֶבְרַת תְּעוּפָה (he) f (hevrát t'ufá) Hindi: एयरलाइन f (eyarlāin), हवाई कम्पनी f (havāī kampanī) Hungarian: légitársaság (hu) Icelandic: flugfélag (is) n Indonesian: maskapai penerbangan Irish: aerlíne f Italian: linea aerea f, compagnia aerea f, aviolinea (it) f, aerolinea (it) f Japanese: 航空会社 (ja) (こうくうがいしゃ, kōkū-gaisha), エアライン (earain) Kazakh: әуекомпания (äuekompaniä) Khmer: អាកាសចរ (ʼaakaasaʼcɑɑ), ក្រុមហ៊ុនអាកាសចរ (krom hun ʼaakaasaʼcɑɑ) Korean: 항공 회사(航空會社) (hanggong hoesa), 항공사(航空社) (ko) (hanggongsa) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rêhewa (ku) Kyrgyz: авиакомпания (ky) (aviakompaniya) Lao: ສາຍການບິນ (lo) (sāi kān bin) Latvian: lidsabiedrība f, aviosabiedrība f Lithuanian: oro linija f, aviakompanija f Macedonian: авиоли́нија f (aviolínija), авиокомпа́нија f (aviokompánija) Malay: syarikat penerbangan Mongolian: Cyrillic: агаарын зам (agaaryn zam) Norwegian: Bokmål: flyselskap n Nynorsk: flyselskap n Pashto: هوايي شرکت m (hawāyi šerkat) Persian: Iranian Persian: شِرْکَتِ هَواپِیْمایی (šerkat-e havâpeymâyi) Polish: linie lotnicze (pl) f pl Portuguese: linha aérea (pt) f, companhia aérea f Romanian: companie aeriană f, linie aeriană (ro) f Russian: авиакомпа́ния (ru) f (aviakompánija), авиапредприя́тие (ru) n (aviapredprijátije) (USSR), авиали́нии (ru) f pl (avialínii) (normally used in airline names), авиафи́рма (ru) f (aviafírma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: авиокомпа̀нија f Roman: aviokompànija (sh) f Slovak: letečká spoločnosť f, aerolínie f pl Slovene: letalska družba f Spanish: aerolínea (es) f, compañía aérea f Swahili: kampuni ya ndege class IX Swedish: flygbolag (sv) n flygföretag n Tagalog: kompanyang panghimpapawid Tajik: ширкати ҳавопаймои (širkat-i havopaymo-yi) Thai: สายการบิน (th) (sǎai-gaan-bin) Turkish: hava yolu (tr), havayolu (tr) Turkmen: awiakompaniýa Ukrainian: авіакомпа́нія f (aviakompánija), авіалі́нії f pl (avialíniji) (normally used in airline names), авіапідприє́мство n (aviapidpryjémstvo) Urdu: فِضائی اِدارَہ m (fizāī idāra), ہَوائی کَمْپَنی f (havāī kampanī), ایئَرْلائِن f (earlāin) Uyghur: ئاۋىئاتسىيە شىركىتى (awi'atsiye shirkiti) Uzbek: aviakompaniya (uz), havo kompaniyasi Vietnamese: công ty hàng không (公司航空), hàng không (vi) (航空), hãng hàng không (行航空) Yiddish: לופֿטליניע f (luftlinye)

Further reading

• airline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia