airline

company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight
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airline

Summary

airline ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • airline's item operated is recorded as aircraft in commercial service[2].
  • airline is a type of aircraft operator[3].
  • airline's Commons category is recorded as Airlines[4].
  • airline's industry is recorded as commercial aviation[5].
  • airline's Unicode character is recorded as ✈️[6].
  • airline's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Airlines[7].
  • airline's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox airline[8].
  • airline's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Airline[9].
  • airline's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Airline[10].
  • airline's equivalent class is recorded as https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Airline[11].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P114[12].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P230[13].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P229[14].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P432[15].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P113[16].
  • airline's properties for this type is recorded as P17[17].
  • airline's Merchant Category Code is recorded as 3003[18].
  • airline's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • airline's model item is recorded as Scandinavian Airlines[20].
  • airline's model item is recorded as British Airways[21].
  • airline's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Airlines[22].
  • airline's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Aviation[23].
  • airline's category for eponymous categories is recorded as Category:Wikipedia categories named after airlines[24].

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Definition and Type

airline is a type of aircraft operator[3].

Why It Matters

airline ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[1] airline has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] airline is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Q138362428. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Schema.org. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_airline_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{airline}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/airline}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-02}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Mapenite · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs'
    National library of latvia id → 000052582
    Sitelink count → 87
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1368]]: 000052582"
  2. 10d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Airline, https://schema.org/Airline, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Airline"
  3. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → airlines
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: airlines, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289912118|airlines (#289912118)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0286850-letecke-spolecnosti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0286850-letecke-spolecnosti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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