81 Commercial Airlines Trivia Questions with Answers
81 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which airline introduced the first regular commercial DC-3 passenger service in 1936?
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American Airlines
Which airline introduced scheduled Concorde service from London to Bahrain in 1976?
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British Airways
Which airline was the launch customer for the Boeing 747-400, entering service with the type in 1989?
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Northwest Airlines
Which airline operates the world’s longest scheduled passenger flight, linking Singapore and New York?
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Singapore Airlines
Which airline was the launch operator of the Boeing 787-9 in 2014?
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Air New Zealand
Which airline operated the first commercial Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flight in 1972?
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Eastern Air Lines
Which airline uses the three-letter ICAO designator QTR?
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Qatar Airways
Which airline introduced the first fully flat business-class seat in 1999?
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British Airways
Which airline began operations in 1972 after Malaysia-Singapore Airlines split?
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Singapore Airlines
Which airline was the launch customer for the Boeing 777-200LR in 2006?
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Pakistan International Airlines
Which airline operated the first scheduled transpolar passenger flight in 1954?
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Scandinavian Airlines
Which airline operated the first commercial flight of the Embraer E-Jet family in 2004?
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LOT Polish Airlines
Which airline operates the frequent-flyer program called MileagePlus?
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United Airlines
What does the airline name KLM stand for in English?
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Royal Dutch Airlines
Which airline operated the first commercial flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in 1971?
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American Airlines
Which airline was founded in 1933 as the national airline of Turkey?
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Turkish Airlines
Which airline began scheduled service in 1971 after its first flight from Dallas Love Field?
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Southwest Airlines
Which airline introduced SABRE, the first major computerized airline reservation system, in 1960?
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American Airlines
Which airline launched the AAdvantage frequent-flyer program in 1981?
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American Airlines
Which airline operated the first commercial flight of the Boeing 767 in 1982?
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United Airlines
Which airline's radio callsign is “Speedbird,” a name inherited from Imperial Airways?
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British Airways
Which airline was the launch customer for the Boeing 737-800?
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Hapag-Lloyd Flug