Airline-dle
Puzzle #86 was Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways, and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between London and the Falkland Islands.
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What the record says
Puzzle 86 ran on 5 Oct 2026 and the answer was Virgin Atlantic Airways, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Country - United Kingdom; Region - Europe; Status - active; Alliance - SkyTeam. The numbers: Founded - 1980.
Beyond the grid the record adds Callsign - VIRGIN; Codes - VS / VIR.
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 Kingdom
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- active
- Founded
- 1980
- Alliance
- SkyTeam
Also on the record
- Callsign
- VIRGIN
- Codes
- VS / VIR