The World's Airlines. Past, Present & Future

Africa Americas Europe Rest of World Unknown Tickets

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Active Airlines                   (1568)   Last update - January 2010   Africa - 1930 (+11)
Defunct Airlines                (3122)   Total number of airlines - 16,165 (+31)   Americas - 7043 (+5)
New Airlines   Number of updates - 170 Europe - 4720 (+8)
Updated Airlines   Number of New Airlines - 33 Rest of World - 2203 (+9)
    Number of Countries Updated - 76  Unknown Country - 269 (-2)

IATA (2 letter airline identification code) and the 3 letter ICAO codes are included where known. The former came into being in the early 1950s and the latter in 1987.

At present the site contains 265 countries (past and present) and regions. As before, please select any region to access it's countries. To search within a country, please use CTL+F

Please take time to check out the wonderful collection of Airline Tickets provided by Gklavas Athanasios.

A further thank you goes to AirlineLogos.net.

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Maintained and updated by David Lyall. Thanks to the people who have responded and I would appreciate any further feedback (positive or negative) on The World's Airlines If you have any personal stories of airlines, I will be happy to try and include them. An example of this is included Papua New Guinea (STOL).

 Although every effort is made to ensure that the information on this web site is correct, the usual waivers apply

Appreciation goes to .AirlineLogos.net for the logos and Flags courtesy of ITA's Flags of All Countries

Status Description
2006* The asterisk denotes that the start and/or end date are earliest/latest proven dates
Ada Air* Asterisk on the airline denotes not totally sure of the airline's country
2008 - - 2009 Double hyphen within aircraft dates denotes split dates of operations