Airline-dle
Puzzle #49 was Airborne Express.
Airborne Express was the trade name, from 1985 onward, for a United States express delivery company sold to DHL in 2003. At the time it was sold, Airborne Express was the number three domestic package express company after FedEx and United Parcel Service.
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What the record says
Puzzle 49 ran on 29 Aug 2026 and the answer was Airborne Express, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Region - North America; Status - defunct. 2 of the 5 columns are blank in the source (Founded and Alliance), so nobody could score them either way.
Beyond the grid the record adds Callsign - ABEX; Codes - GB / ABX.
Airline-dle builds its record from OpenFlights - Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 and Wikidata - CC0 1.0 (region, founding decade, alliance, hub, headquarters). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America
- Status
- defunct
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Alliance
- Not recorded
Also on the record
- Callsign
- ABEX
- Codes
- GB / ABX