* November 1971: BCal commenced the first scheduled service by a wholly private UK airline since the 1930s between London and Paris from Gatwick to Le Bourget.

The airline was granted a licence for scheduled operations by the CAA in 1992, which commenced in 1993, initially between London-Gatwick and Paphos, Cyprus.

The airline commenced services to Phuket, Thailand, as well as six secondary cities in mainland China on regular charter basis in 1986.

In 2000, the airline commenced an all-cargo service to Shanghai, Europe and the Middle East using a leased Boeing 747-200 freighter and a service to Osaka was added in May 2001.

On 1 October 1963, the airline commenced scheduled services between Blackpool and Luton with Vikings.

The new Burbank facility was actually the largest commercial airport in the Los Angeles area until it was eclipsed in 1946 by the Los Angeles Airport in Westchester when that facility ( formerly Mines Field, then Los Angeles Municipal Airport ) commenced scheduled airline operations.

Adjacent to the college is the Longreach School of Distance Education, which provides lessons to remote students, formerly by UHF radio but now using telephone lines. The world's second oldest airline, Qantas, commenced operating in Longreach-from this hangar-now part of the Qantas Founders Museum.

On that day, the airline commenced jet operations from Heathrow to Athens, Istanbul, Moscow, Munich, Rome and Warsaw with an initial, five-strong Comet fleet.

WAA commenced operations including Australia's first scheduled airline service eleven ( 11 ) months before Qantas got off the ground.

The popular discount airline easyjet, commenced flying to many European destinations in March 2010, but withdrew by the end of the year citing commercial factors as a reason.

BKS commenced airline operations from Southend Airport in October 1951 as BKS Aero Charter with a Douglas DC-3.

In the United States, airline carriers such as America West Airlines which commenced operations after 1978, soon realized a cost of available seat mile advantage in relation to the traditional and established, legacy airlines such as Trans World Airlines and American Airlines.

The airline commenced charter services with a Boeing 707-320C freighter on 4 February 1988, to Bombay ( now known as Mumbai ), Britain and Kathmandu ; and scheduled services began on 18 October 1989.

In June 1961, Ghana Airways commenced the first-ever non-stop Accra-London air connection, also using Britannias, and in July the government announced that the airline would be reorganised.

Flights to Baltimore commenced in July 2000, with the Maryland city becoming the second United States destination for the airline.

Olympic Air, the new airline formed from its privatisation, commenced flights.

The airline was granted a licence for scheduled operations by the CAA in 1992, which commenced on 3 October 1993, initially between London-Gatwick and Larnaca ( and later that month Paphos ), Cyprus.

Following the collapse of SAHSA, Honduras had no national airline until 2002, when Sol Air commenced operations.

It became the first third-country freighter airline to fly direct between China and the United States on 22 May 2003 when flights commenced from Singapore to Xiamen, Nanjing and onwards to Chicago.

The airline celebrated its one millionth passenger in June 2000 and commenced wet-lease operation for its parent JAL in December 2000.

It commenced regional airline services in March 1994 following the acquisition by the Impulse Transportation Group of Port Macquarie based Oxley Airlines.

In June 2000 the airline acquired Boeing 717 jet aircraft and commenced operations as a low-cost airline on Australia's trunk eastern seaboard routes in direct competition with Qantas and Ansett.

Together with Virgin Blue which also commenced services in mid-2000, Impulse Airlines brought upon a substantial restructuring of the Australian airline industry.

Commercial airline operations commenced from London Gatwick in 1970 with a fleet of seven second-hand ex-BEA de Havilland Comet series 4B aircraft seating 109 passengers in a single-class configuration.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

The advantages of FBW controls were first exploited by the military and then in the commercial airline market.

As there is no commercial airline operating at the island, one cannot get there by plane, except charter plane.

En route home to San Diego from New York City on a cross-country commercial airline flight he endured a minor heart attack on June 11, 2006.

* 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

Due to the entrepreneurial spirit of the Somali people and a lack of strict regulatory frameworks, by 1997, up to 14 private airline firms operating 62 aircraft were offering commercial flights to international locations.

* 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10, 000 people unemployed.

Other industry experts said that it is possible to use cell phones with varying degrees of success during the ascent and descent of commercial airline flights.

Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times.

This is the first proven case of air sabotage in commercial airline history.

Lauda holds a commercial pilot's license and from time to time acts as a captain on the flights of his airline.

Losses in our commercial aerospace division increased dramatically with the recession in the airline industry.

In addition to commercial airline service, the airport is also home to several private

The nearest commercial airline service for the city is operated out of Houston through William P. Hobby Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

Women began to enter U. S. major commercial aviation in the 1970s and 1980s, with 1973 seeing the first female pilot at a major U. S. airline, American Airlines, and 1986, seeing the first female captain at a major U. S. airline.

Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi is the first Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot.

Aviation history was made in St. Petersburg on January 1, 1914 when Tony Jannus made the world's first scheduled commercial airline flight with the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line from St. Petersburg to Tampa.

The closest airport with commercial airline service is Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.

In 1914, airplane service across Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa and back was initiated, generally considered the first commercial airline.

In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger airline service ; along with Charles Lindbergh, she represented Transcontinental Air Transport ( TAT ) and invested time and money in setting up the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, DC.