airline

See also: air line and Airline

English

Etymology

From air +‎ line.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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^[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.

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