airline
airline — 名詞
1. a company whose business is flying people or cargo from one place to another usi
航空公司
用飛機載客貨的公司
a company whose business is flying people or cargo from one place to another using its own planes, usually on a fixed timetable.
Beatriz booked her flight to Tokyo with a budget airline to save money.
Beatriz為了省錢,訂了一家廉價航空公司的班機飛東京。
collocation: budget airline
The airline canceled all flights from Taipei after a strong typhoon hit the coast.
強烈颱風侵襲沿岸後,這家航空公司取消了所有從台北出發的航班。
subject pattern: the airline + action verb
Korean Air is the national airline of South Korea and flies to over fifty countries.
大韓航空是南韓的國家航空公司,飛航超過五十個國家。
Many major airlines lost a lot of money during the pandemic.
許多大型航空公司在疫情期間虧損慘重。
Zane works for a small airline that carries fresh fruit between Pacific islands.
Zane在一家小型航空公司上班,專門在太平洋島嶼之間運送新鮮水果。
- 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'.