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The first airlines DELAG , Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft I was the world's first airline . [1] It was founded on 16 November 1909, with government assistance, and operated airships manufactured by The Zeppelin Corporation . Its headquarters were in Frankfurt . The first fixed-wing scheduled airline was started on 1 January 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida , to Tampa, Florida , operated by the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line . [12] The four oldest non-dirigible airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), [2] Colombia's Avianca (1919), [3] Australia's Qantas (1921), [4] and the Czech Republic's Czech Airlines (1923). [5] Europe Edit Beginnings Edit A 1919 advertisement for the Dutch airline KLM , founded on 7 October 1919, the ol...