'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).
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★ See
Air Line Railroad for
railroads named in that manner.
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★ The
Bangor-
Calais leg of
State Route 9 (Maine) is "The Airline".
★
★ The
Airline Highway in
Louisiana.
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★ Airline Highway, a portion of former
US-16 near
Muskegon, Michigan.
★ ''
Airline'' - TV show aired in the UK on
ITV.
★ ''
Airline'' - 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.