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Airline

Any company providing scheduled flights to paying customers.

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Breakeven load factor

Aviation; Airline

Measure of when a passenger airline can break even on its costs. The relation between percentage of seats filled at a particular price and airline operating costs.

Dry lease

Aviation; Airline

Budget aircraft lease not including any crew or maintainance guarantees.

Pressure altitude

Aviation; Airline

Altitude measured by current air pressure related to air pressure at mean sea level, which is 1013 hPa.

Powerplant

Aviation; Airline

Source of thrust on a powered aircraft, which may be a jet engine or engine and propeller.

Wet lease

Aviation; Airline

Lease of an aircraft and flight crew (at least one pilot) to another company.

ARS

Aviation; Airline

Airline Reservation System

Clicker

Aviation; Airline

A mechanical counter, used when counting the amount of passengers which board the plane.

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