Airline (disambiguation)

Airline (disambiguation)

Airline has several meanings:
*Airline is the common term for commercial aviation transportation service using aircraft.
*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 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 (UK TV series) - TV show aired in the UK on ITV.
*Airline (1982 TV series) - a 1982 period drama series aired on Yorkshire Television
*Airline (US TV series) - TV show aired in the USA on A&E Network.
*Another spelling of "air line", a tube that carries a compressed air supply, e.g. to inflate tyres or power compressed-air tools.
*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.

ee also

*Airliner


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