Major carrier
Major carrier or major airline carrier (in German as: major airline carriers ) is a term defined by the United States Department of Transportation to those American US airline is awarded its revenue during a fiscal year more than one billion dollars US is.
A United Airlines Boeing 747-400 in the color scheme up to 2011
The following 18 airlines have received the name (as of January 1, 2016):
- Alaska Airlines
- Allegiant Air
- American Airlines
- Atlas Air
- Delta Air Lines
- Envoy Air
- ExpressJet Airlines
- FedEx Express
- Frontier Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Jetblue Airways
- Polar Air Cargo
- SkyWest Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
- Spirit Airlines
- United Airlines
- UPS Airlines
- Virgin America
Legacy carriers
The term major carrier or major airline can also refer to the legacy carriers , the classic national airlines of the USA with an extensive route network, to distinguish it from low-cost airlines in the USA . In a narrower sense, these are the remaining Big Three today , the big three
- American Airlines (merged with TWA since 2001 and with US Airways since December 2015)
- Delta Air Lines (merged with Northwest Airlines since 2008 )
- United Airlines (merged with Continental Airlines since 2010 )
as well as in a broader sense also Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Air Carrier Groupings (English) accessed on April 11, 2017
- ↑ Report from aero.de accessed on September 12, 2014