airline

CEFRB1

/ˈɛəˌlaɪn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A company that carries passengers or goods by air.
02
noun
Extra detail
A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.

Examples

Airline passengers no longer have to turn off all electronic devices while on the plane.
Corsairfly is an airline based in Paris.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

In context

Now, you ask me if I've flown a major airline.
But already there are some commercial airlines in the United States which use airplanes capable of more than 200 miles an hour.

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But already there are some commercial airlines in the United States which use airplanes capable of more than 200 miles an hour.
1932, Amelia Earhart, “Air Trails of the Future”, in The Fun of It, page 205
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.
2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN

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