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Airline has several meanings:

[edit] Referring to air travel

• Airline is the common term for commercial aviation transportation service using aircraft.
• Airline "may" also denote a single holding company which as an independent business and its holding, is made up and composed of one government certificated air carrier that is an IATA sanctioned airline transportation company, which has an established and unique callsign and ICAO designator.
• Airline (UK TV series) - TV show aired in the UK on ITV.
• Airline (1982 TV series) - a British period drama series produced by Yorkshire Television and transmitted on the ITV network.
• Airline (U.S. TV series) - TV show aired in the USA on A&E Network.
• Airlines (computer game), an MS-DOS based airline management simulation game.
• Airline 5/6, a computer simulation game developed in Australia to simulate owning and operating an airline anywhere in the world.

[edit] Other

• Another spelling of "air line", a tube that carries a compressed air supply, e.g. to inflate tyres or power compressed-air tools.
• Formerly, a synonym for beeline, or the shortest path between two land points regardless of obstacle. As defined by a 1913 dictionary: "Air line, a straight line; a bee line. Hence Air-line, adj.; as, air-line road." (As of 2005^[update] this meaning has fallen into disuse).
  • See Air-line railroad for railroads named in that manner.
  • The Bangor-Calais leg of Maine State Route 9 is "The Airline".
  • The Airline Highway in Louisiana.
  • Airline Highway, a portion of former US-16 near Muskegon, Michigan.
• Airline State Park
• Eastwood Airline vintage guitar.

[edit] See also

• Airliner

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