airline
- Aeronautics.
- a system furnishing air transport, usually scheduled, between specified points.
- the airplanes, airports, etc., of such a system.
- Often airlines.a company that owns or operates such a system.
- a direct line; beeline.
- an airhose used to pipe air to a deep-sea diver, pneumatic drill, etc.
- of or on an airline.
Origin of airline
air-line
- straight; direct; traveling a direct route: Some railroads advertise air-line routes between stations.
Origin of air-line
Examples from the Web for airline
Contemporary Examples
Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501Clive Irving
January 6, 2015
Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501Clive Irving
January 6, 2015
Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.
On board were 149 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one Singaporean, a Malaysian, and one Briton, the airline said.
A version was approved for airline use in 2007—but no airline has adopted it.
Historical Examples
And is there anything we can do about it, or will it be like the airline incident.
Fifty Per Cent ProphetGordon Randall Garrett
So his competitor for possession of the Mackay ranch was the Airline itself!
The Land of Strong MenArthur M. Chisholm
So it was not a question of the airline putting all its cards on the table.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
In such circumstances the airline must make a contribution towards the public cost of the Inquiry.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
The airline was being required to pay costs, and not for delaying tactics simply.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
airline
- a system or organization that provides scheduled flights for passengers or cargo
- (as modifier)an airline pilot
- a hose or tube carrying air under pressure
- mainly US a beeline
Word Origin and History for airline
n.
also air-line, 1813, "beeline, straight line from place to place" (as through the air, rather than over terrain; in later 19c. especially in reference to railways that ran directly between big cities in the U.S. instead of meandering from town to town in search of stock subscriptions as early railways typically did), from air (n.1) + line (n.). Meaning "public aircraft transportation company" is from 1914.