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noun

airline n. An organization, usually commercial or governmental, providing transportation by airplane for freight or passengers. The term includes the organization, its personnel, equipment and other properties, such as approved air routes.

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Etymology of 'Airline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Airline" Quotes from Famous Books

... economic reforms he helped launch as PAZ Estenssoro's planning minister. His successes include the signing of a free trade agreement with Mexico and the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) as well as the privatization of the state airline, phone company, railroad, electric power company, and oil company. Furthermore, SANCHEZ DE LOZADA sponsored legislation creating private social security accounts for all adult Bolivians and capitalized these new accounts with ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the chart and measured the distance in an airline from Boston to the point where the red lines converged. It was a trifle less than the distance between Boston and Chicago. Burke had done that in nine hours on the trial trip of his trans-Atlantic monoplane. If the machine was in order and ...

— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train

Words linked to "Airline" : line, airway, airline business, fleet