Air Transport

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines utilize aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or charter operators. The first airline was the German airship company DELAG, founded on 16 November 1909. The four oldest non-airship airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), Colombia's Avianca (1919), Australia's …

Wikipedia

Publications

Green Alliance · 25 September 2023 English

certaintly and act as the co-ordination point for To respond, the UK needs a major programme of the UK’s response to the US Inflation Reduction green investment to transform car …

to achieve this.45 21 SAFER STREETS, CLEANER AIR Transport is the UK’s most polluting sector, REVIEW ROAD


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 22 September 2023 English

The Honduran economy has shown remarkable resilience to various domestic and external shocks over 2020-22, and real GDP is now around 6 percent above pre-pandemic levels supported by the authorities’ …

Quality of Overall Infrastructure Quality of Air Transport Quality of Roads Quality of Ports Quality of


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 22 September 2023 English

The surge in energy prices due to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine significantly increased costs for European firms, prompting governments to introduce a range of support schemes. Although energy …

sector (Figure 1). Firms operating in land/air transport, intermediating between upstream and downstream


World Bank Group · 21 September 2023 French

de vitesse et port de casques IBRD / 86500 Air Transport Safety and Sec urity Improvement A posteriori


Cato Institute · 21 September 2023 English

Achange in the federal status of cannabis plants that are considered psychoactive—legally called marijuana—appears to be inevitable. A vast majority of states have passed legislation to regulate marijuana use in …

Severe weather can significantly derail flights and cause a domino effect across the air transportation system.


Cato Institute · 21 September 2023 English

Operation Warp Speed revolutionized vaccine development. By cutting red tape, the Food and Drug Administration enabled the deployment of life‐​saving COVID-19 vaccines in record time. It showed how removing unnecessary …

Severe weather can significantly derail flights and cause a domino effect across the air transportation system.


Cato Institute · 21 September 2023 English

Last June, in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the U.S. Supreme Court mostly banned the use of racial preferences in college admissions. The Court found such preferences violate the …

Severe weather can significantly derail flights and cause a domino effect across the air transportation system.



AU: African Union · 21 September 2023

On behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and on my own behalf, I welcome you to the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Transport, …

Single Africa Air Transport Market. About 36 Member States, representing 90% of air transport traffic have


Cato Institute · 21 September 2023 English

The adage “Follow the science” when formulating public policy has much to recommend it, but it’s not as straightforward as it sounds. Let us explain.Astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel …

Severe weather can significantly derail flights and cause a domino effect across the air transportation system.


View more