airline

From air +‎ line.

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

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/

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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^[1]:

     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.

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

• air carrier
• airway or airways

• See "derived terms" at air.

• airline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia