The World's Airlines, past, present & future - by David Lyall

Latest update - 7th August 2008

Total airlines = 15,290 with 697 updates including 124 new entries

This has been the yearly overhaul of the database. It has resulted in quite airlines changed from active to "Requires further investigation"

Please take time to check out the wonderful collection of Airline Tickets provided by Gklavas Athanasios.

As the web search will not pick up the airlines because of the .asp format, I have included a list of all airlines with a link to their country's page.

IATA, 2 letter identification code and the 3 letter ICAO codes are included. The former came into being in the early 1950s and the latter in 1987.

At present the site contains 259 countries (past and present) and regions. As before, please select any region to access it's countries. There are now only 3 countries that have been split into  alphabetical groups. To search within a country, please use CTL/F.   Thanks to the people who have responded and I would appreciate any further feedback (positive or negative) on Airline History.

Please click on the image link to the left for the online portal for connecting ex British Caledonian employees around the world.

My continuing thanks go to Dave Nuttman. Dave is an avid collector of in-flight magazines and he is helping out with some of the airlines in the unknown  category.

Another thank you goes to  as I have picked up some good information from this unusual but fascinating site.

Thanks to .AirlineLogos.net for the logos and Flags courtesy of ITA's Flags of All Countries