Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Airline |
AirlineNoun1. A hose that carries air under pressure. 2. A commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | Any air transport enterprise offering or operating a scheduled international air service. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An airline is a civilian organisation providing aviation services to fare-paying passengers and/or cargo. It owns or leases airliners with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit.
In view of the congestion apparent at many international airports, the ownership of slots at certain airports (the right to take-off or land an aircraft at a particular time of day or night) has become a significant tradeable asset in the portfolios of many airlines. Clearly take-off slots at popular times of the day can be critical in attracting the more profitable business traveller to a given airline's flight and in establishing a competitive advantage against a competing airline. If a particular city has two or more airports, market forces will tend to attract the less profitable routes, or those on which competition is weakest, to the less congested airport, where slots are likely to be more available and therefore cheaper. Obviously other factors, such as surface transport facilities and onward connections, will also affect the relative appeal of different airports and some long distance flights may need to operate from the one with the longest runway. Where an airline has established an engineering base at an airport then there may be considerable economic advantages in using that same airport as a preferred focus (or "hub") for its scheduled flights.
Each operator of a scheduled or charter flight uses a distinct airline call sign when communicating with airports or air traffic control centres. Most of these call-signs are derived from the airline's trade name, but for reasons of history, marketing, or the need to reduce ambiguity in spoken English (so that pilots do not mistakenly make navigational decisions based on instructions issued to a different aircraft), some airlines and air forces use call-signs less obviously connected with their trading name. Click on the previous link to discover some of these less obvious radio call-signs.
Possible subjects: Bilateral airline treaties/Alliances/Codeshares/International airline regulation/Transport of goods and passengers/Airline personnel/Airline security/Maintenance policy
See also
External link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Airline."
Synonyms: AirlineSynonyms: air hose (n), airline business (n), airway (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: air-line (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I saw your luggage, then when I noticed the airline ticket I put 2 and 2 together (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) Never have an airline strike at Christmas (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Airline company's always your best friend right after the plane goes down (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic) You would pay to keep your airline, why won't you pay for your son (Ransom; writing credit: Cyril Hume; Richard Maibaum) That's a hell of a way to run an airline! Planes are supposed to be late, not early (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) | |
Lyrics | Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Airline (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals | |||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Striking pilots picket airline / Wide World. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Passengers boarding a Trans World Airline Constellation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Col. H.H. Young, Army Air Corps; Col. W.M. Robertson, General Staff of the Army; E.T. Paxton, Air Transport Association; and E.G. Hamilton, of the Airline Pilots Association, who were present at hearing before the Senate Interstate Commerce committee on t. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Cockpit; pilot; copilot; navigator; air travel; airplane; jet; airlines; airline. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The large selection in airline services has led to strong price competition. (references) | |
Emirates Airline entered the hospitality industry in March 1999 with Al Maha Resort. (references) | ||
This is a sign of a new phase of concentration for the French regional airline market. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Samoa | In 1999 the Supreme Court had granted Polynesian Airlines an injunction to prevent the newspaper from publishing news about the company's expenses for senior staff, and the airline filed the petition in response to a subsequent editorial about the incident. (references) |
Afghanistan | U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed because of the Taliban's links to international terrorism eliminated landing rights for the Afghan airline Ariana at non-Afghan airports and urged member states to restrict the entry into their territories of senior Taliban officials. (references) | |
Russia | Legally bound to provide food and emergency medical care for undocumented travelers, the airline returns them to their point of departure as quickly as possible; airlines are fined if an undocumented passenger is admitted to the country but not if the passenger is returned to the country of origin. (references) | |
Economic History | Ethiopia | However, the government-owned airline is excellent. (references) |
Taiwan | The foreign ownership limit on airline companies is 33 percent. (references) | |
Lebanon | The government also has plans to sell its shares in local airline MEA. (references) | |
Minorities | United Kingdom | During parts of the year, UK immigration officials prescreened Czech airline travelers in Prague, including ethnic Roma, who sought to come to the United Kingdom. (references) |
Political Economy | Gabon | Efforts to privatize the telecommunications monopoly and the national airline have been slow. (references) |
Senegal | This program was by most accounts reasonably successful, with several national companies (including water, telephone and airline) being privatized. (references) | |
Trade | Uruguay | Freight which arrives by the national airline is exempt from the tax. (references) |
Ukraine | Equity investment to help the airline meet market demand for passenger and cargo services between Ukraine and Western Europe. (references) | |
Nigeria | For air cargo, the airline must ensure that the IDR number for the relevant goods being carried is always stated on the airway bill. (references) | |
Travel | Poland | No U.S. airline services Poland directly at this time. (references) |
Brazil | Scheduled airline fares are comparable to those in Western Europe. (references) | |
Romania | All major cities of Romania have airline service nearby and are connected to the Bucharest hub. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | The case was not settled by year's end, principally because the airline had gone out of business. (references) |
Ghana | In January 1999, the CHRAJ announced its decision in the country's first sexual harassment case, involving a flight attendant for a private airline and her immediate supervisor. (references) | |
Worker Rights | France | Workers at Marks and Spencer, Danone, and AOM-Air Liberte struck to protest proposed massive airline layoffs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Where government rules and operations were unnecessary, they have been eliminated, as with airline, rail, trucking and financial deregulation. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | A few days before Christmas, an airline flight attendant spotted a passenger lighting a match. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Airline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Airline" is used about 1,069 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.91% | 1,068 | 7,031 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,069 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Malaysian Airline System Berhad | USA | International Airline Support Group, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "airline": airline business ♦ airline company ♦ airline pilot ♦ airline terminal ♦ airline ticket counter ♦ airline transport pilot ♦ commuter airline ♦ foreign airline ♦ international airline ♦ international Programmable Airline Reservation System ♦ local airline ♦ national airline ♦ nationalized airline ♦ programmable Airline Reservation System ♦ regional airline. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "airline": airline-it, airline-safety, airline-standard, airline-style, airline-type. | |
Ending with "airline": domestic-airline, ex-airline, multi-airline. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
southwest airline | 82,507 | us airline | 2,339 |
airline ticket | 67,691 | airline flight | 2,161 |
american airline | 61,545 | midwest airline | 2,106 |
united airline | 42,980 | air tran airline | 1,925 |
airline | 39,506 | airline song | 1,847 |
continental airline | 37,494 | airline job | 1,741 |
delta airline | 29,354 | airline reservation | 1,393 |
northwest airline | 26,524 | airline travel | 1,392 |
airline ticket cheap | 15,828 | virgin airline | 1,387 |
alaska airline | 13,181 | airline career | 1,317 |
spirit airline | 9,538 | china airline | 1,275 |
frontier airline | 9,168 | philippine airline | 1,227 |
america west airline | 8,266 | southeast airline | 1,148 |
jet blue airline | 5,016 | japan airline | 1,123 |
singapore airline | 5,015 | mexicana airline | 1,117 |
hawaiian airline | 3,863 | southwestern airline | 1,094 |
ata airline | 3,461 | southwest airline reservation | 1,083 |
aloha airline | 3,447 | malaysia airline | 1,074 |
airline ticket discount | 3,194 | sun country airline | 1,065 |
american west airline | 2,727 | malaysian airline | 1,014 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "airline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | linjë ajrore. (various references) | |
Arabic | شركة خطوط جوية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | въздушна линия (air route, airway), пряка линия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 航空公司 (Air-line). (various references) | |
Czech | letecká linka (air line, airway). (various references) | |
Danish | luftfartsselskab (air company, airway), luftfartselskab (air company, airway), flyselskab (air company, airway). (various references) | |
Dutch | luchtvervoersonderneming (air company, airway), luchtvaartmaatschappij, luchtlýn (airway). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aerlinia piloto (airline pilot, airline-pilot). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرویس هواءی , خطمستقیم هواءی . (various references) | |
Finnish | lähtölentoasema (airline terminus), hengityslaite (respiratory protective equipment, which provides the wearer with a supply of clean uncontaminated air or oxygen through an airline or an oxygen flask which he carries on the back.A breathing apparatus makes the wearer independent of the oxygen supply in the surrounding atmosphere). (various references) | |
French | société de transport aérien (air company, airway), ligne aérienne (air line, air link), entreprise de transport aérien (air company, airway), compagnie de navigation aérienne (air company, airway), compagnie aérienne (air line, airline company). (various references) | |
German | Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (air company, airway), fluggesellschaft. (various references) | |
Greek | εανέρια γραμμή, εταιρία αεροπορικών μεταφορών (air company, airway), αεροσκάφοσ υπερπόντιων γραμμών, αεροπορική γραμμή (airway), αεροπορική εταιρία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קו תעופ", קו אוירי, חברת תעופ", תיב אויר (air route). (various references) | |
Hungarian | légitársaság. (various references) | |
Irish | aerlíne. (various references) | |
Italian | compagnia aerea (airway), aviolinea (airway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エアライン . (various references) | |
Korean | 항공 (Air-line, Aviation). (various references) | |
Manx | lhuingys aer (air fleet, airway, armada, armada air), aer-lhuingys (air fleet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airlineay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | linha aérea (air-route), empresa de transporte aéreo (air company, airway), companhia aérea. (various references) | |
Russian | авиалиния (air line, air route, air track, airroute, air-route, air-track, airway, airways). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vazdušna linija (air route, skyway). (various references) | |
Spanish | línea aérea (air highway, airway), compañía aérea (air company, airway). (various references) | |
Swedish | flyglinje (air highway), flygbolag (airway company). (various references) | |
Turkish | hava yolu (airway). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "airline": airliner, airliners, airlines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airline": hairline. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airline": hairlines. (additional references) | |
| |
"Airline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerine, Aerolite, Ailie, ailien, airile, airlline, Apioline, Arlino, aurine, Ayclife, Fairline, Fairnilee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airline" (pronounced e"rlī'n) |
| 5 | e" r l ī' n | hairline. |
| 4 | -r l ī' n | shoreline. |
| 3 | -l ī' n | feline, alkaline, anticline, baseline, bloodline, borderline, byline, coastline, crystalline, Dateline, deadline, dragline, frontline, guideline, hardline, headline, hemline, hotline, lifeline, mainline, midline, multiline, online, outline, pipeline, sideline, skyline, strandline, streamline, Timberline, underline, waistline. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: aliner, inlier, larine, linear, linier, nailer, renail. | |
-2 letters: alien, aline, anile, ariel, elain, learn, liane, liner, renal. | |
-3 letters: airn, anil, aril, earl, earn, elan, ilea, ilia, inia, lain, lair, lane, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, line, lira, lire, liri, nail, near, rail, rain, rale, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, rile. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airliner, airlines, bilinear, gainlier, hairline, inertial, irenical. | |
+2 letters: airliners, animalier, bairnlier, derailing, hairlines, interlaid, laniaries, linearise, linearity, linearize, luminaire, realising, realizing, redialing, remailing, renailing, reptilian, resailing, retailing, saintlier, triennial, trilinear, unilinear, uredinial. | |
+3 letters: animaliers, antilitter, bairnliest, brilliance, calipering, eliminator, engrailing, fingernail, grainfield, impearling, inertially, infiltrate, intertidal, intertrial, invariable, irenically, kallikrein, laterizing, liberating, liberation, linearised, linearises, linearized, linearizes, lipreading, literation, luminaires, luminaries, meridional, mineralise, mineralize, nephridial, painkiller, prevailing, realigning, reavailing, reclaiming, redialling, reptilians, retailings, seignorial, trailering, triennials, trigeminal, ungainlier, velarizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
