Wikidata:Property proposal/flag carrier of

‎flag carrier of

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Not done

Description	country of which the airline is the flag carrier
Aliases	national carrier of
Represents	flag carrier (Q721639)
Data type	Item
Domain	airline (Q46970)
Example 1	Singapore Airlines (Q32245)→Singapore (Q334)
Example 2	Emirates (Q180432)→United Arab Emirates (Q878)
Example 3	Malaysia Airlines (Q308952)→Malaysia (Q833)
Example 4	British Airways (Q8766)→United Kingdom (Q145)
Example 5	Air France (Q131005)→France (Q142)
Example 6	Lufthansa (Q9325)→Germany (Q183)
Source	Flag carrier on English Wikipedia
Property constraint	property constraint (P2302)subject type constraint (Q21503250)class (P2308)airline (Q46970)relation (P2309)instance of (Q21503252) property constraint (P2302)value-type constraint (Q21510865)class (P2308)sovereign state (Q3624078)relation (P2309)instance of (Q21503252)
Wikidata project	WikiProject Aviation (Q53054)

Motivation

Useful for what airline is the flag carrier of a country.

See also this archived discussion: Wikidata:Property proposal/Archive/2#National Carrier of

Joshbaumgartner (talk) Milad A380 ^talk? Danrok (talk) 15:06, 29 August 2013 (UTC) Fale (talk) Jura Novarupta (talk) -- focusing on airports MB-one (talk) 15:06, 12 August 2017 (UTC) Fuzheado (talk) 15:31, 19 September 2017 (UTC) econterms (talk) 01:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC) Bouzinac (talk) Bingobro (Chat) 13:16, 1 July 2020 (UTC) Malvinero10 (talk) 22:22, 2 August 2020 (UTC) Respublik (talk) 15:37, 26 September 2022 (UTC) Spiral6800 (talk) 20:01, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Notified participants of WikiProject Aviation

DinhHuy2010 (talk) 14:31, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Comment The enwiki page on this indicates it could be used for shipping as well as airlines, although it doesn't list any specific examples and the page is mostly focused on airlines. It also suggest this designation is somewhat obsolete as many formerly national airlines have privatized, and international routes now enjoy significant competition. Anyway it would be nice to maybe add some examples here to be clearer what is covered (does this include shipping, can one country have multiple flag carriers?) ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:38, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

  @ArthurPSmith, this property is only restricted to airlines and one country can multiple flag carriers (like the UAE with Emirates and Eithad Airways) DinhHuy2010 (talk) 03:00, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

  Ok, I think  Support as proposed, this is fine. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:59, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

•  Comment I might be wrong, but wouldn't this be more useful on the country itself? So, Singapore (Q334)flag carrierSingapore Airlines (Q32245). -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 15:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
•  Oppose When I ask ChatGPT whether the term is well-defined or is used by different people to mean different things I get as an answer "“Flag carrier” isn’t one single, universally defined legal category. People use it in a few different ways." A Wikidata property needs a well-defined meaning. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 23:42, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not a clear definition for what a flag carrier is. @User:DinhHuy2010 Who is setting the requirement and criterias for an airline to be a flag carrier?Pmt (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
•  Not done, @ArthurPSmith, ChristianKl, DinhHuy2010, Pmt, Wd-Ryan: No consensus of proposed property at this time based on the above discussion. -- Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 04:23, 5 April 2026 (UTC)