interliner
nounEtymology From interline + -er.
1
A passenger whose journey involves changing from one airline to another.
- Whilst one quarter of Heathrow's traffic in 2001 was composed of interliners, at Manchester less than two and a half per cent of passengers were changing planes the airport^([sic]). Yet both airports serve around 170 destinations worldwide […]2003, Simon Bishop, Tony Grayling, The Sky's the Limit: Policies for Sustainable Aviation, page 35: