An airways or air route is a defined corridor that connects one specified location to another location at a specified altitude, along which an aircraft that meets the requirements of the airways may be flown.

Types of Airways: 

There are six types of airways:

1. Trans – Continental Global Airways. 

2. Continental Airways. 

3. National Airways. 

4. Regional Airways. 

5. Local Airways. 

6. The Airways for the various Heads of states, soldiers, battlefronts, diplomats, etc.

Importance of Airways in the World:

Importance of airways can be explained as:

1. Airways is the most rapid but most expensive means of transportation. 

2. Due to being the most expensive, only light, precious and perishable goods are sent through aircraft. 

3. In the hilly or flooded or other inaccessible areas where water transport or land transportation cannot be developed, passengers and goods can be sent by small planes or helicopters. 

4. Air transport is the most useful for relief work in natural disasters such as flood, earthquake, and war etc. 

5. When roads are blocked in the mountains due to heavy snow fall or landslides, the only option for rescue or transportation is airways. 

6. In the desert regions, airways reach for rescue or other purposes.

Trans – Continental Global Airways: Airways which are used to travel from the regions of one continent to another continent are called transcontinental global airways. These types of airways have the longest air route. 

For example,

1. New York – London – Paris – Rome – Cairo – Delhi – Mumbai – Kolkata – Hong Kong – Tokyo airway. 

2. New York – San Francisco – Honolulu – Hong Kong – Adelaide – Perth airway.