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  Airline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit.
Airline services can be categorized as being intercontinental, intracontinental, regional or domestic and may be operated as scheduled services or charters.
A historically high level of government intervention in the airline industry can be seen as part of a wider political consensus on strategic forms of transport, such as highways and railways, both of which are also publicly funded in most parts of the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airline   (4514 words)

  
 Airlines at Efari United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Airline services can be categorized as being intercontinental, intracontinental, Regional Airlines or domestic and may be operated as scheduled services or charters.
Many international airline managers are actively lobbying their governments to permit greater consolidation, in order to achieve higher economies of scale and greater efficiencies.
Compare Southwest Airlines and their reliance on a single airplane type (the Boeing 737 and derivatives), with the now bankrupt Eastern Airlines which operated 17 different aircraft types, each with varying pilot, engine, maintenance, and support needs.
www.efari.co.uk /sports-and-recreation/travel/airlines.html   (4057 words)

  
 History of PIA - Pakistan International Airlines
Sarah Ward's Airline History website is a complete airline encyclopedia with more than 450 histories of world's big and small airlines of past and present.
Bjorn Larsson's Airline Timetables Images website from Sweden is a wonderful and beautiful museum of world airlines timetables.
The airlines are listed alphabetically in their respective continents and timetables are arranged in beautiful and excellent manner
www.historyofpia.com /links.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Gordon M. Bethune 1941— - EARLY CAREER, CONTINENTAL TURNS AROUND, MANAGEMENT STYLE AND STRATEGY
When he received an offer to join Continental Airlines as president and chief operating officer in early 1994, he jumped at the chance—only to discover later that the airline was in far worse shape than he had believed.
The airline's net income climbed further to $319 million in 1996, $383 million in 1997, and $385 million in 1998.
One measure of the degree to which Bethune succeeded in remaking Continental into an airline respected for its reliability and quality of service were the many awards the airline won in the years after he took over as CEO.
www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/A-E/Bethune-Gordon-M-1941.html   (1205 words)

  
 Wally Funk
She has received the FAA Gold Seal as a Flight Instructor and became the 58th woman in the United States to receive the Airline Transport Rating.
Wally has specialized in giving flight instruction to only teenagers who are going into the military or universities or colleges with higher aviation courses to see their dreams come true as military pilots or airline pilots way down the line.
She flew the Palms to Pines air race with one of her students (who is a First Officer for American Airlines) and had lots of fun.
www.ninety-nines.org /funk.html   (4532 words)

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