The World's Airlines, past, present & future  by David Lyall

Latest update - 20th April 2008

Total airlines = 15,182 with 143 updates including 48 new entries

Please take time to check out the wonderful collection of Airline Tickets provided by Gklavas Athanasios.
In order to try and concentrate on the airlines and less on the actual web pages, I have gone back to .asp pages. This means the pages stay the same and access an underlying database. Some of the pages with a large amount of data take a little to open properly. Please be patient and apologies to the US and UK as the country's flags are missing This was to get a faster load time. As the web search will not pick up the airlines, I have included a list of all airlines with a link to their country's page.

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

At present the site contains 259 countries (past and present) and regions. As before, please select any region to access it's countries. There are now only 3 countries that have been split into  alphabetical groups. To search within a country, please use CTL/F.   Thanks to the people who have responded and I would appreciate any further feedback (positive or negative) on Airline History.

My continuing thanks go to Dave Nuttman. Dave is an avid collector of in-flight magazines and he is helping out with some of the airlines in the unknown  category.

Another thank you goes to  as I have picked up some good information from this unusual but fascinating site.

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