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.

He printed his own currency and established his own airline.

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 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.

In 1949, it established a French sister airline.

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

The airline was established in February 1981 and began operations August 1, 1983, using three leased Boeing 737 aircraft flying out of its base in Phoenix, Arizona, with Ed Beauvais, a well-known airline industry consultant, as its CEO.

Their operation had the all-important landing rights for Havana, having acquired American International Airways, a small airline established in 1926 by John K. Montgomery and Richard B. Bevier as a seaplane service from Key West, Florida, to Havana.

SAA owns Mango, a low cost domestic airline, and has established links with Airlink and South African Express.

The airline was established on 9 December 1963 and started operations on 15 December 1963 after a royal decree by the late King Hussein.

After those high speed connections were established nearby into the county, the community took on a year-round population of entertainers, airline employees and pilots, as well as commuters.

The airline was established in March 1970 by Luxair, the Salen Shipping Group, Loftleiðir and various private interests in Luxembourg.

1988 saw the birth of Lion Air, a passenger charter airline established by both Cargolux and Luxair.

The airline was established on 20 July 1989, trading with the name Zagal ( formally, Zagreb Airlines ), and started operations using a single Cessna 402 aircraft on cargo services for UPS.

Color Air was established as a domestic low-cost airline by Olav Nils Sunde in January 1998.

The name chosen for the new airline was similar to that of its forerunner, Air Malta Co Ltd, and was established on 31 March 1973.

The airline was established in 1983 in Ghana and started operations in June 1983.

The airline was established on 10 February 1986 by Captain Arngrimur Johannsson and his wife, Thora Gudmundsdottir.

In October of the same year, Boliviana de Aviación was established as new national airline of Bolivia.

After the bankruptcy, a parliamentary commission in Belgium was established to investigate the demise of the airline.

After World War II, when the Soviet Union had extended its influence across Eastern Europe, the airline TARS ( Transporturi Aeriene Româno-Sovietice ) was established on 8 August 1945, jointly owned by the governments of Romania and the Soviet Union.

Culebra Air Services, established in 1998 as Air Culebra, is a small Puerto Rican airline company that flies out of the island of Culebra, in Puerto Rico, and the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, in San Juan.

The airline was established on 28 August 1995 with the signing of a joint venture between Scandinavian Airlines ( SAS ) and the Latvian state.

* Hokkaido International Airlines, a Japanese low-cost airline with IATA designator HD established in 1996