Airline
An airline is a company that transports people and items using airliners. An airline may have as few as one airplane or a fleet of hundreds of airplanes.
Most airlines offer regular flights between a group of airports.
An airline has many costs to establish and maintain air services: labor, fuel, airplanes, engines, spares and parts, IT services and networks, airport equipment, airport handling services, booking commissions, advertising, catering, training, aviation insurance and other costs.
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1930s German poster advertising a weekly airmail service from Deutsche Lufthansa, Syndicato Condor and Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei
A 1919 advertisement for the Dutch airline KLM, founded on October 7, 1919, the oldest running airline still operating under its original name
The Handley Page W.8b was used by Handley Page Transport, an early British airline established in 1919.
Junkers F.13 D-190 of Junkers Luftverkehr
The Imperial Airways Empire Terminal, Victoria, London. Trains ran from here to flying boats in Southampton, and to Croydon Airport.
April 1935 map showing Imperial Airways' routes from the UK to Australia and South Africa
TWA Douglas DC-3 in 1940. The DC-3, often regarded as one of the most influential aircraft in the history of commercial aviation, revolutionized air travel.
Boeing 377 of American Export Airlines, the first airline to offer landplane flights across the North Atlantic in October 1945.
Pan Am Boeing 747 Clipper Neptune's Car in 1985. The deregulation of the American airline industry increased the financial troubles of the airline which ultimately filed for bankruptcy in December 1991.
1935 Timetable of Tata Airlines, founded in 1932
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