** 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.

* Billund Airport ( BLL ), in central Jutland, one of Denmark's busiest cargo centres as well as a popular charter airline destination and an airport for regular flights serving 2. 4 million passengers a year, mainly from the western part of the country.

In 2003, about 386, 000 passengers were carried on scheduled domestic and international airline flights.

It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline passenger and cargo flights.

According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.

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

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.

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.

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.

The first foreign airline since World War II to operate regular flights from Tallinn was SAS in the autumn of 1989.

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.

Most of the flights were offered by American Airlines, and the airline was described as having a virtual monopoly on the route.

Larger airports for airline flights generally have paved runways or longer.

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

The implementation of a virtual team structure has been shown to produce many benefits including reduced real estate expenses, increased productivity, access to global markets and environmental benefits due to a reduction in airline flights.

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

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

That year, the airline also began oil industry support flights in Libya.

In February 1949, Silver City established a French sister airline headquartered in Paris to operate vehicle ferry flights from Le Touquet Airport.

During that period, the airline completed 125, 000 ferry flights.

During that year, the airline and its French partner CAT carried 96, 272 vehicles and 238, 748 passengers on 43, 064 flights, representing increases of 10 %, 6 % and 12 % compared with 1961.

The airlines offer most of the coupons for seats on less heavily sold flights where some seats normally go empty, thus providing a benefit to customers at relatively low cost to the airline.

Druk Air is the only airline flying into Bhutan excluding charter flights by Buddha Air and is a lifeline with the outside world for the Bhutanese people, also supporting emerging inbound tourism and export markets.