The airline's rapid growth continued in 1986, and the airline greatly expanded its fleet, primarily with Boeing 757s purchased from Northwest Airlines after Northwest bought out Republic Airlines, as well as a number of De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft for local service from Phoenix and Las Vegas.

However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002.

DC-6s and Boeing 707s were later bought, and the airline joined the AACO, the Arab Air Carriers Organization.

Lufthansa bought a 24. 5 % share of the airline in 1987 and Luxair increased its share to 24. 53 %.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA announced 24 April 2007 that they had bought 100 % of the Swedish low-cost airline FlyNordic ; becoming the largest low-cost airline in Scandinavia.

Sterling Airlines traces its history back to 1962, when Eilif Krogager, founder of Danish travel agency Tjæreborg ( today part of MyTravel Group ), started the charter airline Sterling Airways with two Douglas DC-6B bought from Swissair, in order to better service his own package tours from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.

But in 1997, KLM bought 30 % of Braathens ( as the airline was renamed ) and British Airways closed its Stavanger routes, because it lacked its own staff.

It operated from 1969 to 2005, when it was bought by Icelandic investment group Fons Eignarhaldsfélag and subsequently merged with their other Danish acquisition the same year, the low-fare airline Sterling European Airlines.

The airline claimed a successful beginning, as the passengers who formerly bought bus and train tickets now bought cheaper flights.

On March 10, 2006, Northwest Airlines bought the operating certificate of Independence Air for $ 2 million to establish a new regional airline.

* June 1 – Singapore Airlines announces it has bought six Boeing 747s and four Boeing 757s, making it the first Asian airline to buy the 757.

The airline operated a route between Portland and Newark that is still operated today by Continental Airlines, which bought out PEOPLExpress in 1987.

1987 saw the arrival of Continental Airlines, when the airline bought PEOPLExpress and took over their existing route system.

Reno – Tahoe International used to be the hub of Reno Air, a now-defunct medium sized airline that had offered non-stop MD-80 and MD-90 service to many cities, until Reno Air was bought and taken over by American Airlines and eventually completely disposed of in 2001.

In 1983 Piedmont Aviation bought Henson and re-branded the airline as " Henson, The Piedmont Regional Airline.

On 1 April 1977, after 17 years of capital participation by SAS, the Thai government bought out the remaining 15 % of SAS-owned shares and THAI became an airline fully owned by the Thai government.

He bought the airline in 1950 for $ 50, 000 and proceeded to acquire DC-4s.

In September 1997, Pan Am Corp., a holding company formed by the reincarnated Pan American Airways ( 1996-1998 ), bought Carnival Air Lines in an attempt to bolster its fleet and operations into a new airline based on the old Pan Am.

In early 2000, the airline bought 5 Dornier 228 from Uni Air to fly out-lying routes.

A charter system of independent airlines can have their shares bought or sold on the stock market ; owning at least 51 % of the company makes it eligible to be assimilated into the main airline.

Braathens followed up by listing itself on the Oslo Stock Exchange, joining an alliance with Dutch airline KLM and expanding its operations to Sweden through purchasing Transwede and Malmö Aviation.

The airline was originally formed in 1985 to handle the charter operations of Transwede Airways.

* Atlantic Airways, a Faroese airline company

* British Airways, flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom

* Buffalo Airways, a charter and scheduled airline based in Hay River, Canada

Airways filed for bankruptcy twice leaving the AFL-CIO, pilot unions and other airline employees claiming the rules of Chapter 11 have helped turn the USA into a corporatocracy.

Domestic flights: are available through Sunrise Airways which is Haiti's largest airline for the general public offering scheduled, as well as, charter flights.

* Eznis Airways: Schedule & Charter airline of Mongolia

* British Mediterranean Airways, an airline in the United Kingdom

Private domestic air carriers began to win business at the expense of Nigeria Airways, the former government-owned national airline which was declared bankrupt in 2004.

Only one budget airline, Tiger Airways, has chosen to operate at the Budget Terminal ; other budget airlines have cited various reasons for not shifting operations to the Budget Terminal, including accessibility and ease of transfers to connecting flights.

The state-owned Adria Airways is the largest Slovenian airline.

* Titan Airways, a charter airline

In the past Telstra had naming rights to the Telstra Dome in Melbourne, but lost these rights to Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on 1 March 2009.

** Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, a Douglas DC-8 operated by Canadian airline Nolisair, catches fire and crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 people on board.

** New Zealand National Airways Corporation the Domestic airline of New Zealand was merged with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand.

The airline Mauritania Airways has its head office in the city.

* Olympic Airlines, state run airline of Greece in the process of ceasing all operations and successor to Olympic Airways

Silver City Airways was a private, British independent airline formed in 1946.

By 1957, BAS's airline subsidiaries included Air Kruise, Aquila Airways, Britavia, the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and the original Manx Airlines, apart from Silver City Airways itself.

This was furthermore the time the Air Kruise cross-Channel services, as well as all Dragon Airways, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and Manx Airlines operations from Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were transferred to Silver City's new Northern Division to streamline BAS's fragmented airline operations.

The government airline, Imperial Airways / BOAC, which had operated Darrell's Island before the war, adopted its war time role, and its camouflaged flying boats maintained trans-Atlantic service through Bermuda throughout the war.

The airline became part of the US Airways Group after a merger in 2005.

The merged airline uses America West's " CACTUS " callsign and ICAO code " AWE ", but retained the US Airways name because a study found the US Airways name to be more popular than America West Airlines.