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Encyclopedia > Airline timetable

Airline timetables are booklets that many airlines worldwide use to inform passengers of several different things, such as schedules, fleet, security, in-flight entertainment, food menu, restriction and phone contact information. An airline is an organization providing aviation services to passengers and/or cargo. ...


Airline timetables used to be mainly produced as small, paperback books that would be handled to passengers inside airplanes, at ticket agencies and airport counters, or upon request by phone or mail. On January 16, 1928, Pan Am published one of their first timetables. It read The air-way to Havana, Pan American Airways, Pershing Square building, New York. Do not change January 16 it preserves the date correctly formatted and stops robots from delinking it. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was the United States principal international airline from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991, and was credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry. ... Aerial view of Havana Havana (Spanish in full: San Cristóbal de La Habana, usually shortened to just La Habana; UN/LOCODE: CU HAV) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...


Airline timetable books are famous for their diversity: Many had colorful covers, such as the ones produced by many Latin American airlines. Others, such as Scenic Airlines' timetables, consisted only of one paper, with their hub's flight time information on the front, and the return times on the back. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Early Scenic Airways timetable, note the Fly over the colorful West inscription Scenic Airlines (IATA: YR, ICAO: SCE, and Callsign: ) is an American airline which is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...


After the September 11, 2001 attacks, most airlines worldwide have stopped production of timetable books, in order to cut costs. As a consequence, most airlines now post their timetables only online, and the value of many airline timetable books has risen among collectors. The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... The Internet (also known simply as the Net) is the worldwide, publicly accessible system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). ...


External links

  • Airports sites

The Official Airline Guides (www.oag.com) manage the schedules for all airlines and produce timetables for them. I think they are the only place where you can see all the schedules from all the airlines in one place


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Airline timetable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (225 words)
Airline timetables are booklets that many airlines worldwide use to inform passengers of several different things, such as schedules, fleet, security, in-flight entertainment, food menu, restriction and phone contact information.
Airline timetables used to be mainly produced as small, paperback books that would be handled to passengers inside airplanes, at ticket agencies and airport counters, or upon request by phone or mail.
Airline timetable books are famous for their diversity: Many had colorful covers, such as the ones produced by many Latin American airlines.
Airline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4445 words)
Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit.
Airline services can be categorized as being intercontinental, intracontinental, regional or domestic and may be operated as scheduled services or charters.
The airline industry as a whole has made a cumulative loss during its 120-year history, once subsidies for aircraft development and airport construction are included in the cost [1].
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