Large passenger aircraft designed to carry many people on scheduled commercial flights between airports.
From 'air' + 'liner' (large ship, later aircraft); the 'liner' part comes from 'line' (a regular route). The term shifted from ocean liners to aircraft in the 1930s when commercial aviation expanded.
Airliners revolutionized human connection—before them, traveling from New York to Los Angeles took a week by train. Now it takes 5 hours, and you might sit next to someone from Japan, Brazil, and India. They literally shrank the world.
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