Airline Facts for Kids

An airline is a company that transports people and items using airliners. An airline may have as few as one airplane or a fleet of hundreds of airplanes.

Most airlines offer regular flights between a group of airports.

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1930s German poster advertising a weekly airmail service from Deutsche Lufthansa, Syndicato Condor and Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei
A 1919 advertisement for the Dutch airline KLM, founded on 7 October 1919, the oldest running airline still operating under its original name
The Handley Page W.8b was used by Handley Page Transport, an early British airline established in 1919.
Junkers F.13 D-190 of Junkers Luftverkehr
The Imperial Airways Empire Terminal, Victoria, London. Trains ran from here to flying boats in Southampton, and to Croydon Airport.
TWA Douglas DC-3 in 1940. The DC-3, often regarded as one of the most influential aircraft in the history of commercial aviation, revolutionized air travel.
Boeing 377 of American Export Airlines, the first airline to offer landplane flights across the North Atlantic in October 1945.
Pan Am Boeing 747 Clipper Neptune's Car in 1985. The deregulation of the American airline industry increased the financial troubles of the airline which ultimately filed for bankruptcy in December 1991.
1935 Timetable of Tata Airlines, founded in 1932
Latam Airlines is the largest airline in Latin America in terms of number of annual passengers flown.
Union Jack tails of British Airways, UK's flag carrier
International Civil Aviation Organization headquarters in Montreal
An Airbus A340-600 of Virgin Atlantic. In October 2008, Virgin Atlantic offered to combine its operations with BMI in an effort to reduce operating costs.
Diagram of an airline Global Distribution System
The 'Golden Lounge' of Malaysia Airlines at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
MODIS tracking of contrails generated by air traffic over the southeastern United States on 29 January 2004.
The aircrew of a Jetstar Airways Boeing 787
Map of scheduled airline traffic in 2009
Aircraft of various airlines parked side by side at Tokyo Narita Airport, Japan

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