Airlines vs. Airways

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Airlines and Airways Definitions
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What are Airlines?
In general, an airline is a company that operates airlines or aircraft or the most commonly used term airplanes. Airlines also transport cargo and heavy freight along with carrying passengers to their destinations. Airlines vary widely in their size, from small to huge airlines. Airlines follow a specific schedule of flights that it will fly at sharp this time and land at sharp this time and the passengers can buy tickets directly from the travel agents or the company of airlines. They have almost all the facilities for passengers traveling in the airplane from food to sleeping comfort and recreation like music and television. The air industry has prospered a lot and thus they do not leave any stone unturned in the facilitation of their passengers and the passengers traveling are their top priority because once the passengers will get a good experience from the airlines, they will prefer to travel from the same airlines again and again. There are both local as well as international airlines. American Airlines and Northwest airlines and PIA, Pakistan International Airlines are some famous airlines.
What are Airways?
The term Airways basically means a special routing or navigation of various air crafts or airplanes, which is well defined particular route which the airways follow. These are also known as the highways of the sky or simpler words streets of the sky. Like for instance, on roads we follow a well-defined track and do not go astray but follow the track as it is constructed, the same case is of airways it follows the specified route and does not go here and there. Just like streets, the airways are unidirectional as well as bidirectional meaning they can go both ways following the same route. Airways are of different sizes, having facilities for passengers. Most of the pilots flying airways, follow directions of the routes provided to them, this is the only difference that separates it from the word airlines. The most famous airways is British airways.