(alsoflag airline)TRANSPORTanairlinethat is or wasownedby agovernment, often with thenameof thecountryinitsname:AirIndia, the country'sflagcarrierThe AustraliangovernmentraisedA$1.45billionfrom thesaleofits75%stakein thenationalflagcarrier.(Definition offlag carrierfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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flag carrierPassengers flights are run by the nationalflagcarrierand other domestic airlines.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The organization continued to stress that the squad was not cheerleaders but rather a uniqueflagcarrier/dance team.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During this time, the airline was designated as the countrysflagcarrier.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The carrier therefore became theflagcarrierof the country.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The second and more broadly used definition offlagcarrieris a legacy of the time when countries established state-owned airline companies.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One player grabs the flag and runs through checkpoints, while other players try to grab the flag away by running into theflagcarrier.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We cannot have all the problems of a secondflagcarrieroperating from a different airport.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0That is not a commercial way of doing business, but when an airline is a nationalflagcarrierit is forced to do these things.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Yet in neither case is there evidence of damage to theflagcarrier.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We still stand by having a strong public sector airline as the nationalflagcarrier.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/flag-carrier##
