Civil Aeronautics Board

American  

noun

U.S. Government.

1. the former federal agency (1938–85) that regulated airline fares and assigned routes. CAB, C.A.B.

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Example Sentences

New airline companies were formed, and they could fly where they wished and set fares the same way, without Civil Aeronautics Board approval.

From Seattle Times

The Civil Aeronautics Board, the regulator, allocated routes to different airlines.

From Salon

Congress created a regulatory system called the Civil Aeronautics Act, run by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which was a federal government agency.

From Salon

Those words come from a memo he wrote to his staff at the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1977.

From New York Times

Five years later, President Jimmy Carter appointed her the first female member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, where she helped provide the intellectual framework for the deregulation of the airline industry.

From Washington Post