National Airlines

When you see an airline called Air India or Air Canada or Alitalia, it's obvious where those airlines come from. It's the ones with not-so-related names that we need to be concerned about.

Part 1: A sampling of airlines that don't have their associated country in their name. Some of the names with initials may very well stand for (or at least hint at) what country they're from, but it's not overtly apparent.

Qantas: Australia
Gulf Air: Bahrain
Maya Island Air: Belize
AeroSur: Bolivia
TAM Airlines: Brazil
LAN Airlines: Chile
Avianca: Colombia
Lacsa: Costa Rica
TAME: Ecuador
TACA: El Salvador
Lufthansa: Germany
Olympic Airlines: Greece
Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong
Malev: Hungary
Aer Lingus: Ireland
El Al: Israel
KLM: Netherlands
Copa Airlines: Panama
TAROM: Romania
Aeroflot: Russia
Iberia: Spain
Etihad Airways: United Arab Emirates

Part 2: Country of the day = Bangladesh. Capital city = Dhaka.



Part 3: Word of the day = compunction noun a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret or doing wrong or causing pain