noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
airline passengers
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All airline passengers arriving at Heathrow must go through customs.
an airline flight
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domestic airline flights
an airline reservation
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Make sure you have an airline reservation before booking the hotel.
an airline/plane/air ticket
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You can pick up your airline tickets at the check-in desk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Repealers see the Wright amendment as another post-deregulation rule that helps the big airlines get bigger.
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To be seen to be defending Virgin against attack by the big airlines would be a contradiction of this.
commercial
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Nor are the skies above frequented by commercial airlines , which eliminates interfering radar signals.
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No commercial airlines have yet resumed service.
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Anyway, if he were simply trying to disappear, a first-class ticket on a standard commercial airline would have done.
domestic
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The city is served by several domestic and international airlines .
international
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The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats.
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The city is served by several domestic and international airlines .
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He went on to become a senior captain with an international airline .
large
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The latter will have lost the national telephone system, gas and steel industries, and the country's largest airline .
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Today it is one of the largest and safest airlines in the United States.
major
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In fact, our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world.
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McCarthy said he been told of the pilots' concerns by air safety officials from at least three major airlines .
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In addition there is a major charter airline shown in Table 11.5 which has not appeared before.
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Its members include major airlines , automakers, labor unions, medical societies, consumer groups and some insurance companies.
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Several major airlines serve Phnom Penh.
national
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The busiest routes are carved up by bilateral deals between the national airlines at either end.
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However, the basic structure of three national airlines as proposed in the Swinton plan was retained.
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The programme of privatization involved the sale of the national airline , telecommunications company and shipping line to local and foreign investors.
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By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline .
other
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There is a lack of creature comforts that customers of other airlines tend to take for granted.
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Skytrain was so successful that the other airlines had to follow suit and offer passengers cheaper fares.
small
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After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside.
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A: Historically, do the smaller airlines have more junior pilots?
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The hub-and-spoke system made it harder for small airlines to mount an effective challenge to major networks.
■ NOUN
business
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Even the minutiae of the airline business obsessed him more than the minutiae of the record business ever had.
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When such possibilities are widely capitalized upon, what will that do to the airline business , or to airplane manufacturers?
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I don't want to be in the airline business .
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The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats.
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Virgin were going into the airline business .
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But the airline business is a cash-hungry one-and strikes are enormously costly.
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A: Competition in the banqueting and airline businesses is intense.
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The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there.
industry
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Phillips says his ultimate vindication would be to see the airline industry adopting SafetyScope, but he isn't holding his breath.
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Ticketless travel, which actually began several years ago, is spreading rapidly throughout the airline industry .
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The sense of crisis was heightened by dramatic closures in the airline industry .
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Wilken also asked whether the airline industry groups have the right to sue.
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Various airline industry estimates suggest that a one minute delay in scheduled aircraft departure costs between £130 and £750.
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An often-heard analogy in the airline industry is that seats are perishable like fruit.
official
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Boeing left the wisdom of that to the airline officials and challenged the team to come up with an even sturdier model.
passenger
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He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed.
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The government is losing millions because an airline passenger tax can not be collected.
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The B.A.A. prohibited the drivers from entering the airport except as bonafide airline passengers .
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We sat in our seats like airline passengers watching the in-flight movie without headsets.
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Apgood pinched his nose like an airline passenger trying to clear his eardrums, and looked Maxim over carefully.
pilot
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The whole exercise was a clear demonstration of the unequalled capabilities of the Mystère 20 as an airline pilot trainer.
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Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
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A longtime airline pilot , who did not want to be quoted by name, said weather conditions were ripe for icing.
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She was happier being the wife of an airline pilot .
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Control panels bristled with up to thirty-five switches and buttons as if the housewife-technologist required the skills of an airline pilot .
reservation
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One airline reservation agent, meanwhile, said $ 1, 835.
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Call the airline reservation numbers to ask for help.
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Would a single airline reservation transaction have value to a future historian?
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A lot of the real estate conventioneers make airline reservations so they can get home for Sunday church.
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You call to make an airline reservation .
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Caldwell, who is single, took a six-month leave from her job at an airline reservations office.
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These are the systems that handle accounting at multinational corporations, airline reservations , insurance and banking transactions and stock trades.
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He planned to arrive in style, and made his airline reservations accordingly.
ticket
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It is quicker at some things than the internet-booking train or airline tickets especially.
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When should you buy an airline ticket ?
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Inside the envelope was an airline ticket , an open ticket on Concorde.
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The background here is that, until Dec. 31, the price of an airline ticket included a 10 percent tax.
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Travel office Rauraje Deshprabhu will fix any of your local needs, and additional airline tickets .
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The airline tickets can be delivered by mail, picked up through a travel agent or at airline ticket counter.
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A cheque book and an airline ticket - that is all it needed to bathe in that heat so far away.
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The airline tickets can be delivered by mail, picked up through a travel agent or at airline ticket counter.
■ VERB
allow
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Consider what happened when New Zealand simply allowed one airline to compete with its state-owned line.
buy
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About 70% of all new aircraft will be bought by airlines just to accommodate that growth, says Boeing.
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When should you buy an airline ticket?
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The service will let you buy airline tickets using a credit card.
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Gutsy investors who bought into airline bonds reaped returns of nearly 30 % on average, according to Salomon.
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One day many of us will be buying our airline tickets this way.
call
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He felt like calling the airline immediately and flying nonstop to Shannon, then renting a car and driving to Sligo.
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He had probably called the airline to ask about the flight.
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You call to make an airline reservation.
run
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Until March this year he was a music entrepreneur who did whacky stunts and ran an airline of the side.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the prototype currently simulates these activities, actual airline operations will be used in production models.
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But it did limit airline growth.
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Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
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Despite such handicaps, El Al intends to join the growing squadron of airlines that are being privatised.
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It has been 30 years since a president considered an airline strike important enough to use the emergency powers.
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Long before other airlines adopted electronic ticketing, Southwest Airlines was using it to reduce costs and loading times.
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The airline had withstood the predatory pricing moves of its competitors, and overcome its early loss.
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The aircraft is popular among commuter airlines.