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Airline

Any company providing scheduled flights to paying customers.

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Airline

Powerplant

Aviation; Airline

Source of thrust on a powered aircraft, which may be a jet engine or engine and propeller.

Pressure altitude

Aviation; Airline

Altitude measured by current air pressure related to air pressure at mean sea level, which is 1013 hPa.

Ruddervators

Aviation; Airline

Single control surfaces on the rear of v-tail aircraft combining rudder and elevator functionality.

Threshold

Aviation; Airline

The start of a landing area of a runway.

ARS

Health care; Airline

Acute Radiation Syndrome (poisoning)

airline mergers

Aviation; Airline

The legal combination of two or more airline companies into a single carrier. Airlines merge in order to improve operational efficiency by eliminating service redundancy and better leveraging ...

Pakistan International Airline (PIA)

Aviation; Airline

The national flag carrier and a state-owned enterprise of the Government of Pakistan. Once regarded as Asia's best airline, it is headquartered at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi and operates ...

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