Originally Posted by
bcmatt
There are probably about 20 in the UK alone! There are nearly 50 countries in Europe (depending on how you count it) and probably the majority of those have at least some sort of national airline.
I guess once you start counting all the independent city states, the numbers are up there... Some of these are technically territories of the bigger countries though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries
Good to know.
--Russ