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Trunk Airline
Trunk carriers or trunk airlines or trunklines or trunks, were the US scheduled airlines certificated in the period 1939–1941 by the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) or its immediate successor, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) after the passage of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act on the basis of grandfather clause, grandfathering: those carriers that were able to show they performed scheduled service prior to the passage of the Act. During the regulated period (1938–1978) these carriers were an especially protected class, with the CAB regulating the industry in many respects in the interests of these companies, a form of regulatory capture. The importance of these carriers is reflected in the fact that in , the three largest airlines in the United States, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines were among the carriers certificated through this grandfathering in 1939. The CAB tightly regulated the industry and categorized airlines by function, the name of the trun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trunk Carrier Routes 1953
Trunk may refer to: Biology * Trunk (anatomy), synonym for torso * Trunk (botany), a tree's central superstructure, and the stem of woody plants * Trunk of corpus callosum, in neuroanatomy * Elephant#Trunk, Elephant trunk, the proboscis of an elephant Computing * Trunk (software), in revision control * Trunk line, a system of shared network access * VLAN, which uses a trunk port Entertainment and media * Trunk (album), ''Trunk'' (album), 2013 album by Ulf Lundell * Trunk Records, a record label * The Trunk (film), ''The Trunk'' (film), a 1961 British film * The Trunk (The Twilight Zone), "The Trunk" (''The Twilight Zone''), a television episode * The Trunk (TV series), ''The Trunk'' (TV series), a 2024 South Korean television series Physical containers * Trunk (car), a large storage compartment * Trunk (luggage) * Trunk (motorcycle), a storage compartment Other uses * Trunk (surname), a German-language surname * Trunk carrier, a type of airline regulated by the Civil Aeronauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |