An airline alliance is an aviation industry arrangement between two or more airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Alliances may provide marketing branding to facilitate travelers making inter-airline codeshare connections within countries. This branding may involve unified aircraft liveries of member aircraft.
Four members of Star Alliance at Tokyo Narita Airport: Thai, United, Swiss and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
Boeing 787-9 of All Nippon Airways
Royal Air Maroc Boeing 787-8
Boeing 777-300ER of Garuda Indonesia
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and/or freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or charter operators.
1930s German poster advertising a weekly airmail service from Deutsche Lufthansa, Syndicato Condor and Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei
A 1919 advertisement for the Dutch airline KLM, founded on October 7, 1919, the oldest running airline still operating under its original name
The Handley Page W.8b was used by Handley Page Transport, an early British airline established in 1919.
Junkers F.13 D-190 of Junkers Luftverkehr