List of airlines by foundation date

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This is a list of airlines by foundation date, founded before 1927.

The date of the first arline service may differ from the foundation date.

Airline	Established	Ceased operations	Notes
DELAG	November 16, 1909	1935	Operated Zeppelins, aircraft taken over by state-sponsored airline
Aircraft Transport and Travel	October 5, 1916	1921	The first international scheduled service in 1919
Chalk's Ocean Airways	1917	2007	Became Chalk's International Airlines
Société des lignes Latécoère	1918	1932	Air post service, assets incorporated into Air France
Det Danske Luftfartselskab	29 October 1918	1946	Services started 7 August 1920. Part of SAS since 1946
Société des lignes Latécoère	25 December 1918	1932	Became Aéropostale
Svenska Lufttrafik	February 7, 1919	1921
Lignes Aériennes Farman	February 8, 1919	7 October 1933	Formed Air France
Grands Express Aériens	20 March 1919	1 January 1923	Formed Air Union
Daimler Airway	June 7, 1919	1924	Became part of Imperial Airways
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	October 7, 1919		Merged with Air France in 2004
SCADTA	December 5, 1919	1941	Formed Avianca
Handley Page Transport	1919	31 March 1924	Became part of Imperial Airways
Instone Air Line	1919	1924	Became part of Imperial Airways
Qantas	November 16, 1920
Instone Air Line	1919	1924
Mexicana	July 12, 1921
West Australian Airways	5 December 1921	12 June 1936	Became part of Australian National Airways
Aeromarine West Indies Airways	1921	1924
Malert	November 19, 1922	1944
Aeroflot	February 9, 1923
SABENA	May 23, 1923	February 2002	Succeeded by SN Brussels Airlines
British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd	August 1923	1924	Formed Imperial Airways
Czech Airlines	October 6, 1923
Finnair	November 1, 1923
Zakavia	1923	1925
Imperial Airways	1924	1939	Amalgamated to form British Overseas Airways Corporation
AB Aerotransport	June 2, 1923	1950	Formed SAS
Tajik Airlines	September 3, 1923
CIDNA	1 January 1925	7 October 1933	Incorporated into Air France
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano	September 15, 1925
Western Air Express	1925	September 9, 1986
Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft	6 January 1926	1954	Formed Lufthansa
Western Canadian Airways	March 1926	1930	Amalgamated with several Eastern Canadian carriers forming Canadian Airways
Varney Airlines	April 6, 1926	1964	Formed United Airlines
Colonial Air Transport	1926	1930	Formed American Airlines
Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul	1926	1993	Formed Varig

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