airline

See also: air line, and Airline

English

Etymology

From air +‎ line.

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.

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 stewardess
• airline ticket
• budget airline
• national airline
• nonairline

 

Related terms

• See "derived terms" at air.

Translations

company that flies airplanes

• Afrikaans: lugdiens
• Arabic: شَرِكَة طَيَرَان f (šarikat ṭayarān), خُطُوط جَوِيَّة m pl (ḵuṭūṭ jawiyya)
• Armenian: ավիաընկերություն (hy) (aviaənkerutʻyun)
• Belarusian: авіякампа́нія f (avijakampánija)
• Bengali: এয়ারলাইন (eẏarlain)
• Bulgarian: авиокомпа́ния f (aviokompánija)
• Burmese: လေကြောင်း (my) (le-kraung:)
• Catalan: aerolínia f
• Chinese:

  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
• 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) (hevrat t'ufa)
• Hindi: एयरलाइन (eyarlāin), हवाई कम्पनी (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 (ʔaakaascɑɑ)
• Korean: 항공 회사(航空會社) (hanggong hoesa), 항공사(航空社) (ko) (hanggongsa)
• Lao: ສາຍການບິນ (lo) (sāi kān bin)
• Latvian: lidsabiedrība f
• Lithuanian: oro linija f
• Macedonian: авиоли́нија f (aviolínija), авиокомпа́нија f (aviokompánija)
• Malay: syarikat penerbangan
• Mongolian: агаарын зам (agaaryn zam)
• Norwegian: flyselskap n
• Persian: شرکت هواپیمایی (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)
• 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
• Swedish: flygbolag (sv) n flygföretag n
• Tagalog: kompanyang panghimpapawid
• Thai: สายการบิน (th) (săai gaan bin)
• Turkish: hava yolu (tr)
• Ukrainian: авіакомпа́нія f (aviakompánija), авіалі́нії f pl (avialíniji) (normally used in airline names)
• Urdu: فضائی ادارہ (fizāī idāra)
• Vietnamese: công ty hàng không (公司航空), hàng không (vi) (航空), hãng hàng không
• Yiddish: לופֿטליניע f (luftlinye)

Further reading

• airline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia