Other forms: airlines
An airline is a company that carries passengers by air. A budget airline, the airline lost it, airline tickets.
The business is famously bad at making money, and more airlines have gone bankrupt than almost any other kind of company. Budget airlines changed it entirely by charging separately for everything that was once included.
1nounairlineA company that carries passengers by air.
“The airline lost my suitcase, and it only arrived three days later.”
airline is a company.
Air plus line, on the model of shipping line and railway line.
From air + line.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA