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national airline
national airline, air transportation services owned and operated by national governments. All U.S. airlines are, and have been, privately owned. Many other countries have a history of government-owned airlines. Often national airlines were founded as private services and later purchased by governments. Some airlines have been founded by national governments or entities connected to those governments. The oldest airline in the English-speaking world, Qantas, was founded privately in Australia in 1920 and purchased by the Australian government in 1947. It was privatized through a process that began in 1992. Air India, which was established in 1932 as the private company ...(100 of 312 words)