AIRLINES

"AIRLINES" is a plural of: airline.

Date "AIRLINES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonyms: AIRLINES

Crosswords: AIRLINES

When Congress voted to cut airport appropriations, you never even sent in a letter of protest. And where were you when the airlines and the pilots and the rest of us werewere pleading forfor more airports and better traffic control (Airport; writing credit: Arthur Hailey; George Seaton)

That concludes your flight with Miracle Airlines, the only airline where Lady Luck is your co-pilot (The A-Team; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Henrique Lobo)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts. (references; author: unknown)

Gina and Tl: Singapore Airlines (2002)

Jesus Christ Airlines (2001)

Love Airlines (1978)

Indian Airlines... Pride of India (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• AB Airlines Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Asiana Airlines Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• AUA - Austrian Airlines Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs A.G.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• China Airlines: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Cargo Airlines (reference)

• Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos (reference)

• Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of Commercial Aviation Industry (reference)

• The Travel Detective: How to Get the Best Service and the Best Deals from Airlines, Hotels, Cruise Ships, and Car Rental Agencies (reference)

• Airlines Worldwide: More Than 350 Airlines Described and Illustrated in Colour (reference)

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Periodicals

• African Airlines (reference)

• Aerospace International Directory Of World Airlines (reference)

• Airlines International (reference)

• Airlines Reporting Corporation Manual For Carriers (reference)

• United Kingdom Airlines Monthly Operating And Traffic Statistics (reference)

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High Tech

• Airlines 2 (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Passengers from an American Overseas Airlines flight ... are led from the plane to a quarantine room ... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Douglas DST airplane, with American Airlines logo, on field. Credit: Library of Congress.

Army National Guard Red Cross helicopter landing near the Pentagon (Arlington, Va.) while smoke billows in the background from area damaged by crash of hijacked American Airlines flight 77 during the September 11th terrorist attack. Credit: Library of Congress.

A scene at the American Airlines "Flagship" passenger plane, showing moving picture and sound equipment being used during the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943. Credit: Library of Congress.

Photographers of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) filming a scene at the American Airlines "Flagship" passenger plane, for the motion picture "Black Marketing." The film was released by the OWI on August 19, 1943. Credit: Library of Congress.

American Airlines College, Arlington, Texas. View across pool with girls I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pan American Airlines, Long Island City. Model XIX. Credit: Library of Congress.

Airlines Ticket Office. Exterior of Airlines Ticket Office. Credit: Library of Congress.

Griffith Consumers Co. Exterior of Capitol Airlines hangar. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

However, with supplemental oxygen, most COPD patients can travel on commercial airlines. (references)

Business

The largest are Regional Airlines and Brit’Air. (references)

A few European airlines are interested by this type of arrangement. (references)

Swissair is seeking to buy Air Liberté, one of France’s major airlines. (references)

Civil Liberties

Eritrea

In 1999 the Government arrested an editor who refused to disclose the address of a reader whose letter to the editor criticized the commercial practices associated with Saudi Airlines operations in the country. (references)

Eritrea

At year's end, the Saudi Airlines case and six other government charges of libel against the editor remained pending; however, trial proceedings were suspended indefinitely when the editor was inducted into the army. (references)

Samoa

In February 2000, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition brought by government-owned Polynesian Airlines against the independent newspaper The Samoa Observer, which requested the court to jail the newspaper's editors. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

A number of airlines operate from Hargeisa. (references)

Australia

Domestic airlines carry about 200,000 tons of cargo per annum. (references)

Spain

The remaining state shares of Iberia Airlines were recently sold. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Kolelas' attempts to return failed on at least two occasions during the year when the Government intervened and airlines refused to transport him. (references)

Pakistan

Former Sharif advisor Ghous Ali Shah, former Pakistan International Airlines chairman Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Director of Civil Aviation Aminullah Chaudhary, and former Inspector General of Police Rana Maqbool were charged along with Sharif. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

The U.S. goal continues to be to negotiate an agreement that benefits as many cities, airlines, and consumers as possible. (references)

Trade

Spain

Airlines may handle the inspection of air shipments. (references)

Uae

GE is pursuing a major engine contract with UAE's Int'l carrier, Emirates Airlines. (references)

Panama

It also permits direct sales to foreign vessels transiting the Panama Canal, and to foreign airlines. (references)

Travel

Greece

Athens is served by 50 airlines. (references)

Turkey

Major European airlines have also frequent non-stop flights to Turkey. (references)

Greece

American international air service to Greece is provided by Delta Airlines. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

In June workers at the two main airlines held a strike. (references)

Mexico

On September 15, an agreement between Mexicana Airlines management and flight attendants averted a strike that would have had major repercussions for the country's airline industry. (references)

Russia

In January 1999, according to an ILO report, unknown assailants murdered Gennadiy Borisov, a leader of the Vnukovo Airlines Technical and Ground Personnel Union, at the entrance to his apartment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "AIRLINES": domestic airlines. Additional references.

Ending with "AIRLINES": mega-airlines.

Chinese 

美國航空公司 (American Airlines). (various references)

German

Fluggesellschaften. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

日航 (Japan Airlines), 全日空 (All Nippon Airlines, ANA). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜんにっくう (All Nippon Airlines, ANA), にっこう (Japan Airlines, sunlight). (various references)

Pig Latin

airlinesay.(various references)

Russian 

дельта эрлайнз (delta airlines). (various references)

Swedish

inrikesflyg (domestic airlines, domestic flights). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "AIRLINES": hairlines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"AIRLINES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adilines, Aeroleneas, Airlies, Airlinks, airlline, Apioline, Fairline. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: airline, aliners, inliers, nailers, renails, senarii.

-2 letters: aliens, aliner, alines, ariels, arisen, arsine, elains, inlier, larine, learns, liaise, lianes, linear, liners, linier, nailer, raisin, renail, resail, sailer, saline, serail, serial, silane, sileni.

-3 letters: airns, aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, earns, elain, elans, lairs, lanes, lares, laris, laser.

+1 letter: airliners, hairlines, laniaries, linearise, realising, resailing, saintlier.

+2 letters: animaliers, bairnliest, linearised, linearises, linearizes, luminaires, luminaries, mineralise, reptilians, retailings, seignorial, triennials.

+3 letters: ancillaries, antirealism, antirealist, brilliances, carnalities, cartelising, clarinetist, disrelation, eliminators, espaliering, fingernails, grainfields, infiltrates, insertional, interisland, internalise, invariables, kallikreins, legionaries, liberations, linearising, linearities, lipreadings, literations, marbleising, marlinspike, meridionals, millenaries, mineralised, mineralises, mineralizes, ministerial, misaltering, mislearning, misrelating, normalities, orientalism, orientalist, painkillers, plaistering, planarities, pleinairism, pleinairist, previsional, rationalise, reassailing, regionalism, regionalist, residential, seigneurial, semidiurnal, serialising, serializing, singularize, trailerings, trigeminals, unclarities, unrealistic, unrealities, vainglories.