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.

Virgin acquired European short-haul airline Euro Belgian Airlines in 1996 and renamed it Virgin Express.

After protracted and testy negotiations, Fields agreed to a reduced stake of 25 % in the airline ( renamed Virgin Atlantic ) and became its first chairman.

Following the rule in Libya having been taken over by Muammar Gaddafi in 1969, the airline was renamed Libyan Arab Airlines ( commonly abbreviated LAA ).

In 2006, the airline was renamed Libyan Airlines.

But in 1997, KLM bought 30 % of Braathens ( as the airline was renamed ) and British Airways closed its Stavanger routes, because it lacked its own staff.

The airline was subsequently renamed as FlyLal – Lithuanian Airlines.

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.

Boston-Maine Airways had a monopoly on passenger air travel out of Portland, which would continue when the airline was renamed Northeast Airlines.

On 1 February 2006 the airline was renamed BA Connect Limited operating as BA Connect and operations moved to a low-cost carrier model, with food sold via a ' buy on board ' programme ( except for flights to London City Airport ).

In 1984, Air Atonabee, ( as Otonabee Airways had been renamed in 1980 ) was re-organized into a new regional airline known as City Express.

In about 1986 the airline ( by then renamed USAir ) added a fourth jetway.

The airline resumed operations in 1947 and was renamed to JAT-Jugoslovenski Aerotransport on April 1, 1947 and then to Jat Airways in 2003, making it today one of the oldest airlines still in operation.

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

Having been renamed CP Air in 1968, the airline in 1986 reverted to its original name of Canadian Pacific Air Lines.

The national airline, Air Rhodesia, was also renamed Air Zimbabwe.

The airline was renamed to Jetstream International Airlines ( JIA ) in December 1983 after it took delivery of two Jetstream aircraft.

Following independence of Zambia and Malawi, who began their own airlines, the remaining airline operation at the base in Salisbury ( always the CAA centre of operations ) was renamed Air Rhodesia.

Formerly known as Pacific Airlines, the airline was renamed Jetstar Pacific on 23 May 2008, becoming part of the Jetstar LCC network operated by its 18 % shareholder Qantas.

On 23 May 2008, the airline was renamed Jetstar Pacific Airlines and will lease up to 15 Airbus A320s by 2014, as part of its plan to expand domestic and regional services.

He also noted that the British creditor released the aircraft after the airline paid US $ 1 million. The Ghanaian government announced in September 2002 that it had signed a deal with Nationwide Airlines which would see the South African airline taking over the management of the airline, which would have been renamed Ghana Nationwide International Airlines.

Air Sahara was renamed JetLite, and was marketed between a low-cost carrier and a full service airline.

Under Howard Jr .' s ownership, Hughes Tool ventured into the motion picture business via Hughes Productions during the 1920s, and into the airline business in 1939 with the acquisition of a controlling interest in Transcontinental and Western Air ( later renamed Trans World Airlines ).

In the early 70's, Hughes Tool ventured back into the airline industry with the takeover of the largest regional air carrier in the western United States: Air West, renamed Hughes Airwest following the purchase.