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# List of commercial airlines

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This is a list of commercial airlines.

## [edit] Continental Airlines

Contentinal Airlines is a major commerical airline which has one of its hubs in Atlanta, Georgia. Contentinal has been in and out of bankruptcy several times.

## [edit] Delta Airlines

Delta Airlines is an airline which has major hubs like Salt Lake City International Airport. As of 2006, Delta was operating under bankruptcy protection.

The airline was founded in 1928.

## [edit] American Airlines

An American Airlines Boeing 767-300

American Airlines is the largest passenger airline in terms of passengers and the second largest in the world in terms of total operations revenue. The airline is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. American Airlines was founded in the 1930s as American Airways.

## [edit] United Airlines

United Airlines is a passenger airline based in Chicago. As of 2006 it carried the second most people trailing American Airlines.

Doug Parker is the CEO of the airline. United flies all current Boeing aircraft and some Airbus aircraft as well. It has 650 daily departures at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

During September 11, terrorists hijacked and crashed two planes. They were Flight 175, and Flight 93. One was a Boeing 737, the other a Boeing 757.

After September 11th, United filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it lost bags and it was not getting good rating from their passengers.

They were under bankruptcy protection for the longest serving airline ever, ending in February 2006.

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