airline

airline — noun

1. a company whose business is flying people or cargo from one place to another usi

1.名詞B1
釋義

a company whose business is flying people or cargo from one place to another using its own planes, usually on a fixed timetable.

例句

Beatriz booked her flight to Tokyo with a budget airline to save money.

collocation: budget airline

The airline canceled all flights from Taipei after a strong typhoon hit the coast.

subject pattern: the airline + action verb

同義詞
  • carrier

    more formal industry term, often in news reports (e.g. 'low-cost carrier')

  • air carrier

    technical/regulatory wording used in aviation documents

  • flag carrier

    specifically the main national airline of a country

文法句型

a [name] airline

[name] Airlines (proper noun)

用法筆記

Often used with the company's name as a proper noun (China Airlines, Singapore Airlines), where the plural form 'Airlines' is part of the brand. As a common noun it is countable and takes 'a/an' or 'the'.

常見錯誤

❌I flew with airline yesterday.
✅I flew with an airline yesterday.
💡'airline' is countable, so use 'a/an' or name a specific company.
❌The airline pilot drove the plane safely.
✅The airline pilot flew the plane safely.
💡pilots fly planes; 'drive' is for ground vehicles.