** 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.

These types, and the DH. 9A, a developed version that served for many years with the postwar Royal Air Force, formed the basis of early de Havilland designed airliners, including the company's DH. 16 and DH. 18 types which were operated by Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, the first airline established in the United Kingdom, also owned by George Holt Thomas.

Because these aircraft are frequently operated by smaller airlines that are contracted to provide (" feed ") passengers from smaller cities to hub airports ( and reverse ) for a " major " or " flag " carrier, regional airliners may be painted in the liveries of the major airline for whom they provide this " feeder " service.

These airliners, are the non mainline counterparts to the larger aircraft operated by the ; major carriers, legacy carriers, and flag carriers and are used to feed traffic into the large airline hubs or focus cities.

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

That year, also marked the conclusion of Silver City's first decade of air ferry operations during which the airline operated more than 100, 000 flights carrying over 200, 000 vehicles and ¾ of a million passengers, with peak-day frequency exceeding 200.

When the deal with private equity firm 3i became official in June 2001, the airline's management team remained in place due, in part, to 3i's recognition of the fact that it was this team that had launched and operated the airline so successfully in a challenging environment.

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.

As of March 2005, the airline operated a fleet of 140 aircraft, with a single maintenance base at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.

** Boston-Maine Airways, sister company to this airline, which operated service under the Pan Am Clipper Connection brand

* Maersk Air, IATA code DM, a former Danish airline which operated from 1969 until 2005

By 1985 Eastern was the largest airline in the world in terms of passengers enplaned and operated in 26 countries on three continents.

Most flights are operated by Brit Air and Chalair Aviation and the French national airline Air France operates three daily flights to the French city of Lyon, while in the summer there are many charter flights to Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.

The airline was based in Madrid and operated a fleet consisted of five CASA CN-235 aircraft.

For example: British Airways flight BA4552 is actually the same flight as CX118 operated by Cathay Pacific ( CX )— both are members of the Oneworld airline alliance.

A seat can be purchased on one airline but is actually operated by a cooperating airline under a different flight number or code.

Thus, XX123, flight 123 operated by the airline XX, might also be sold by airline YY as YY456 and by ZZ as ZZ9876.

At the time of this shut down, the airline operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:

Prior to Delta Air Lines establishing service between New York City and Accra, Ghana, on December 11, 2006, NAA's JFK-ACC and BWI-BJL services were the only scheduled non-stop service between the U. S. and West Africa operated by a U. S. airline for several years.

In 1950, a Douglas DC-4 operated by the private airline Loftleiðir crash-landed on the Vatnajökull glacier and never flew again.

The airline operated the following:

United Airlines is the only commercial airline to have operated Executive One, the designation given to a civilian flight on which the U. S. President is aboard.

Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A / S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines Norway ( SAS ) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens.

The airline operated 118 aircraft of 15 different models.

The future of manned aircraft is in doubt, which affects government procurement, and jet transports have revolutionized the airline trade -- one jet can take the place of three compound-engine planes.

Recently formed from the failed Air Ivoire, the airline operates an aging fleet of Western-built aircraft.

Besides the state owned airline Cubana ( Cubana de Aviación ), the two other major Cuban airlines are Aero Caribbean and Aerogaviota, both of whom operate modern European and Russian aircraft.

Section 1110 () generally provides a secured party with an interest in an aircraft the ability to take possession of the equipment within 60 days after a bankruptcy filing unless the airline cures all defaults.

Northwest Orient's Seattle operations manager, Al Lee, approached the aircraft in street clothes ( to avoid the possibility that Cooper might mistake his airline uniform for that of a police officer ) and delivered the cash-filled knapsack and parachutes to Mucklow via the aft stairs.

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.

Several factors, such as the date, time, aircraft size, airline, eyewitness accounts, and location in New York, raised concerns that the crash was caused by another terrorist attack.

The airport charges the airline for the time the aircraft spends at the airport.

Unusual examples include Aureobasidium pullulans, which feeds on wall paint, and the kerosene fungus Amorphotheca resinae, which feeds on aircraft fuel ( causing occasional problems for the airline industry ), and may sometimes block fuel pipes.

Advertised in 1918 as the largest aircraft company in the world, Airco established the first airline in the United Kingdom, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, as a subsidiary.

These aircraft are usually used for long-haul flights between airline hubs and major cities with many passengers.

Typically, these regional feederliners, are painted in the aircraft liveries and color schemes of the much larger airline partners so the regional airlines may offer and market a seamless transition between the larger airline to smaller airline.

International flights generally have either a two-class configuration or a three-class configuration, depending on the airline, route and aircraft type.

Naturally the airline tries to maximize the number of seats available in every aircraft to carry the largest possible ( and therefore most profitable ) number of passengers.

Its greatest success was the F. VIIa / 3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which was used by 54 airline companies worldwide and captured 40 percent of the American market in 1936.

Vietnam Airlines, the national airline, has a fleet of 30 aircraft that link Vietnam with 19 foreign cities.

Because the airline ’ s existing fleet of 12 airplanes is rapidly becoming outdated, in 2002 three new aircraft were leased for eight years, and in early 2006 the airline announced plans to acquire six new aircraft, with options for an additional four, beginning in 2012.

Blohm & Voss, which had until then specialized in shipbuilding, also began to design and build aircraft for use by both the German state airline, pre-war Deutsche Luft Hansa, and the air-force, Luftwaffe.