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.

The airline British Caledonian, named a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ( G-BHDI ) after Robert the Bruce.

In January 2011, Armenian airline Armavia named their first Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Gagarin's honour.

Previously named Kent County International Airport, it holds Grand Rapids ' mark in modern history with the United States ' first regularly scheduled airline service, beginning July 31, 1926, between Grand Rapids and Detroit.

* 1935: A new airline named Allied British Airways was formed, by a merger between Hillman's Airways, United Airways and Spartan Airways.

It is a common misconception that the airline was named after the King's third wife, Queen Alia whom King Hussein did not marry until 1972.

It is named after the airline Pan American World Airways, whose flight attendants would always flash every jet-setter the same perfunctory smile.

* Australia's largest airline Qantas named its fifth Airbus A380 aircraft ( registration VH-OQE ) after Lawrence Hargrave.

Much later on, a large airline named Caribair ( later overtaken by Eastern Air Lines ), began flights there.

Arecibo has a small noncommercial airport, named Antonio ( Nery ) Juarbe Pol Airport, which has not had airline flights in about two decades.

The airline, originally named Argus Air Transport, was formed at London Luton Airport in 1957.

Once again tapping his wealthy friends from Yale, Trippe invested in an airline named Colonial Air Transport, which was awarded a new route and an airmail contract on October 7, 1925.

* May 23 – Shamu One, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 painted like and named after a SeaWorld killer whale, begins flying for the airline.

TAP Portugal, national airline, named one of its airplanes, an Airbus A319, after her.

On 22 September 1934 a Handley Page W. 10 a twin-engined biplane airline named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.

The airline was established in 1979 as Bobcat Airlines ( named after its owner vee Neal Frey ).

In February 2011, First Air along with Qikiqtaaluk Corporation ( QC ) started a new airline named Qikiqtani First Aviation.

** a regional airline brand of the regional airline named Pacific Wings, IATA code ( LW ) which is owned by Pacific Air Holdings company.

** a regional airline brand of the regional airline named Pacific Wings, IATA code ( LW ) which is owned by Pacific Air Holdings company.

A Canadian airline steward named Gaëtan Dugas was referred to as " Patient 0 " in an early AIDS study by William Darrow of the CDC.

The airline was initially named Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airways.

* Edelweiss Air, an international airline based in Switzerland, is named after the flower, which also appears in its logo.