airline
noun
- company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəˌlaɪn/ / /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/
noun
Etymology: From air + line.
- A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
“But already there are some commercial airlines in the United States which use airplanes capable of more than 200 miles an hour.”
“They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement. […] Other airlines managed to recover by early this week; at Southwest, the cancellations only increased.”