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.

LAB operated a limited number of charter flights during late 2007 and early 2008 on behalf of AeroSur, but has since fully gone out of business, with its airline license officially been revoked in 2010.

On December 3, 1989, the city opened the existing $ 33 million, airline passenger terminal, and on February 20, 2000, the passenger terminal was officially renamed the Ivan Munroe Terminal in honor of Tallahassee aviation pioneer Ivan Munroe.

The airline was officially renamed to JAT-Jugoslovenski aerotransport on April 1, 1947.

The first airmail service established officially by an airline occurred in Colombia, South America, in the 19th of October 1920.

The airline officially merged into Air India on 27 February 2011.

In 2005, Nuevo Continente it had its airline licence revoked by the Peruvian authorities, officially due to safety concerns.

Originally, the East German national airline was called Deutsche Lufthansa ( officially Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH der DDR ), but this met opposition from West Germany, with a court case in Bern awarding the Lufthansa trademark to the West German company.

Soon after its demise, the company pledged to make a comeback as a charter-only airline, but on May 13, 2005, the airline officially declared bankruptcy, cancelled plans to relaunch service, and began the process of liquidation.

Over the course of the following months, preparations escalated and on December 21, 2001, the airline was officially certified as an FAA part 121 operator.

In October 2010, the European low cost airline EasyJet officially announced that it will open a new hub at Lisbon Airport, exclusively using Terminal 2.

Island Air ( officially Hawaii Island Air, Inc .) is an independent American commuter airline based in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii.

On 28 June 2012, MEA officially joined SkyTeam to become its 17th member, as well as its second member airline in the Middle East.

The airline operated under its original name from 1937 to 1965, when it was officially renamed Air Canada.

The airline was named after the Flying Tigers fighter unit of World War II, officially the 1st American Volunteer Group.

LGW is a German regional airline officially known as Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter mbH.

Seattle contains most of Boeing Field, officially called King County International Airport, but most of the city's airline passengers use Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the city of SeaTac.

The airline officially changed its name to Hong Kong Airlines Limited on 28 November 2006 and introduced a new logo representing a bauhinia flower, a Hong Kong native flower.

The airline was officially launched on 15 December 2004 by Croatian shipping company Atlantska Plovidba.

The airline officially ceased operations on August 31, 2006.

As a consequence, the license of the airline was withdrawn, officially due to the poor safety record on 19 March 2011.

The airline officially became an international airline when it added flights to the British Virgin Islands.

Direktflyg, officially Svenska Direktflyg AB is a regional airline based in Borlänge, Sweden.