Airline

Airline

Any company providing scheduled flights to paying customers.

Industry: Aviation

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payload

Aviation; Airline

Equal to the certificated takeoff weight of an aircraft, less the empty weight, less all justifiable aircraft equipment, and less the operating load (consisting of minimum fuel load, oil, flight ...

unique carrier

Aviation; Airline

Unique Carrier Code. It is the Carrier Code most recently used by a carrier. A numeric suffix is used to distinguish duplicate codes, for example, PA, PA (1), PA (2). Use this field to perform ...

carrier code

Aviation; Airline

Code assigned by IATA and commonly used to identify a carrier. As the same code may have been assigned to different carriers over time, the code is not always unique.

federal information processing standards (FIPS)

Usually referring to a code assigned to any of a variety of geographic entities (e.g. Counties, states, metropolitan areas, etc). FIPS codes are intended to simplify the collection, processing, and ...

market data

Aviation; Airline

Market data are passenger, freight, and/or mail that enplane and deplane between two specific points, while the flight number remains the same. If the flight number changes a new market begins. For ...