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.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

A new Belgian airline named SN Brussels Airlines was subsequently founded by business man Etienne Davignon.

In 2009, Brussels Airlines was taken over by German airline Lufthansa.

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.

The national airline was Air Comores.

An example is the airline industry in the United States ; in 2006 over half the industry's seating capacity was on airlines that were in Chapter 11.

Another form of e-commerce was the airline reservation system typified by Sabre in the USA and Travicom in the UK.

Germany's largest airline is former national carrier Lufthansa that was privatised in the 1990s.

Botham was also sacked from the Queensland team after being arrested for assault of a fellow airline passenger.

Air Mali was liquidated in April 2003, but intercontinental services from Bamako are provided by Air France and a Belgian airline, among others.

The airline was relaunched in October 2006 after its only plane was impounded in December 2005.

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.

The core of the new agency was composed of the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Safety ( The CAB retained its economic regulation of the airline industry until it was closed on December 31, 1984 due to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 ).

The Polish airline market was until 2004 a classical case of closed market, with bilateral agreements between countries served from the national hub-Warsaw.

* The airline ticketing agent who checked in Mohamed Atta, the purported leader of the September 11 attacks, and a companion, would afterwards say that looking at the pair his first reaction was to think, " If this doesn't look like two Arab terrorists, I've never seen two Arab terrorists.

Before the September 11, 2001 attacks ,( 9 / 11 ) airport screening was provided by private companies which were contracted with the airline or airport.

Their original owner was C. Arnholt Smith, a prominent San Diego businessman and former owner of the PCL Padres whose interests included banking, tuna fishing, hotels, real estate and an airline.

Between 1945 and 1989, Aeroflot was the only airline that served Tallinn Airport.

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

Memphis International Airport is the global " SuperHub " of FedEx Express, the world's largest airline in terms of freight tons flown, and has the second largest cargo operations by volume of any airport worldwide, surpassed only by Hong Kong's international airport.

The Hong Kong Sevens were ahead of their time, and an influential force in the modernisation of rugby union, for example, the Hong Kong Sevens were one of the first rugby union tournaments to attract major sponsorship, when the airline Cathay Pacific sponsored the 1976 tournament.

In 1999 the airline moved its head office to Hong Kong International Airport.

Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited ( T: 港龍航空有限公司, S: 港龙航空有限公司, Cantonese: gong2 lung4 hong4 hung1 jau5 haan6 gung1 si1, Pinyin: Gǎng ​ lóng ​ Háng ​ kōng Yǒu ​ xiàn ​ gōng ​ sī ), operating as Dragonair, is an international airline and flag carrier headquartered in Hong Kong ; with its corporate headquarters, Dragonair House ( 港龍大厦, 港龙大厦, C: gong2 lung4 daai6 haa6, Pinyin: Gǎnglóng Dàshà ), and main hub at Hong Kong International Airport.

Dragonair is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong's flag carrier, Cathay Pacific, and is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

The airline was established in Hong Kong on 24 May 1985 on the initiative of Kuang-Piu Chao, the airline's present honorary chairman, as a subsidiary of Hong Kong Macau International Investment Co.

In 1987, the airline became the first Hong Kong-based airline to join as an active member of the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ).

Dragonair was the first local competitor for Hong Kong's largest airline, Cathay Pacific, in forty years ; and since the airline's inception, Cathay Pacific fought vigorously to block the airline's flight-slot applications.

However, after a heated hearing before Hong Kong's Air Transport Licensing Authority, the Hong Kong Government adopted a one route-one airline policy, which lasted until 2001.

Dragonair Cargo continued to see steady growth and the airline began a Hong Kong – Shanghai freight route on behalf of DHL in June 2003 and leased an Airbus A300 freighter to start a cargo service to Nanjing in June 2004.

The airline currently operates its own aircraft to 36 destinations in Asia from its home in Hong Kong.

The airline flies scheduled cargo operations between the U. S. and Hong Kong, U. S. and Germany ( Leipzig / Halle Airport ), U. S. and Korea ( for Asiana ), Los Angeles and Honolulu.

In 2001, Newark Liberty International Airport became the terminus of the world's longest non-stop scheduled roundtrip airline route, Continental ( now United Airlines ) service to Hong Kong.

The flagship airline of Hong Kong is called Cathay Pacific because the founders envisioned that one day, the airline would cross the Pacific Ocean from China.

The airport was home to Hong Kong's international carrier Cathay Pacific, as well as regional carrier Dragonair, freight airline Air Hong Kong and Hong Kong Airways.

Swire Pacific is the largest shareholder of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's largest airline.

In June 1994, Hong Kong's largest carrier, Cathay Pacific acquired 75 % holdings of the airline ; and acquired the remaining 25 % in February 2002.

A race ensued when BCal, Laker and Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's home town airline as well as its de facto " flag carrier ", filed their applications with the CAA in London.

On 27 June 2003, CR Airways became Hong Kong's third passenger airline after receiving a revised AOC from the Director of Civil Aviation Albert Lam and operated its first passenger flight on the next day.

He currently hosts one of the inflight entertainment Radio Channels for Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific.

It became Hong Kong's fourth passenger airline when it received a revised air operator's certificate in July 2005.

In July 2004, Hong Kong's helicopter operator Heli Hong Kong officially announced plans to commence fixed-wing operation via Hong Kong Express, to become Hong Kong's fourth passenger airline.

In July 2004, the Asian Tribune announced that the joint venture between shareholders of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific airline and the Myanmar Ministry of Transport would soon launch international flights.