Sentences with phrase «by distance flown»

Instead of awarding frequent flier miles by the distance flown, all major U.S. airlines will award them based on the cost of the ticket.

These rankings are by scheduled flight time, not by distance flown.

And because British Airways has an award redemption chart that's organized by distance flown instead of region, you'll only to cash in 25,000 British Airways miles on a roundtrip ticket from Los Angeles to Honolulu instead of the 45,000 miles American requires for that same flight.

Unlike the other options we have discussed, British Airways Executive Club uses a distance - based award chart, so the total number of Avios required to book an award flight will be determined by the distance you fly.

Not exact matches

Gould told me that the team is already working on a 2.0 version that's powered by peer - to - peer communication, which should significantly increase the distance the Flyer can fly without losing communication with your phone.

As the years fly by, it's amazing to see how so many of my friendships have survived the test of time and distance, and I am still very close with so many people that I've moved away from or haven't seen in way too long.

Goran Causic was afforded time and space to let fly from distance and his goal - bound effort was brilliantly diverted on to the crossbar by the German, who somehow got his fingertips to the ball and pulled off one of the best saves of the season.

Ferrans, 21, set a world record for distance by throwing a Frisbee 623» 7» at the U.S. Open Flying Disc Championships in La Habra, Calif..

Dunk then strode forward into space and let fly from distance, only to see his tame strike saved by Petr Cech.

To test for this, I use geographical coordinates of MPs» districts [11] to calculate the distance and travel time to Westminster in: 1) minutes it takes to drive by car; 2) minutes it takes by public transport; 3) kilometres covered by car; and 4) kilometres as the crow flies.

MAY 1910 AIR RACES — «Louis Paulhan, the most distinguished aviator of them all, has soared nearly a mile into the air, and finally has surpassed even that feat by flying from London to Manchester, covering a distance of 186 miles, with but one stop for fuel, at an average speed of over forty miles an hour.

«As long as the recruit flies in the same direction as the dancer, she will translate that image motion signalled by the dancer into the correct flight distance and find the goal.»

A number of small mammals, including the colugo — a flying lemur (Galeopterus variegates) native to southeast Asia and the Philippines — get around by climbing up trees and then gliding across the canopies an average distance of 30 meters.

Lars Chittka and Karl Geiger of the Free University of Berlin say that bees measure the distance from their hive to a food source by counting landmarks as they fly past them.

Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 20 - to -40-foot (6 - to -12-meter) size range fly by Earth at a distance even closer than the moon every year.

Bees seem to know how far they must fly to get to sources of food that they have visited before, and some scientists have argued that bees measure distance by evaluating the energy they have used in flying there.

Any probe that has to travel such a great distance has to build up a lot of speed, so each ship would see only one hemisphere of Pluto as it flew by.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

In those theories, the gravity from ordinary matter remains strong at greater distances than predicted by Newton and Einstein, which prevents galaxies from flying apart.

A team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reached another milestone in developing a promising technology for accelerating particles to high energies in short distances: They created a tiny tube of hot, ionized gas, or plasma, in which the particles remain tightly focused as they fly through it.

He is particularly charmed by insect - eating bats, who measure distance by timing echoes bouncing back from sounds they generate as they fly.

The unmanned 478 kg (1,054 lb) spacecraft was sent on a 9.5 - year mission to fly by Pluto — a distance so far that radio signals from the nuclear - powered probe take four hours to reach Earth.

Last week, Planetary Society Shoemaker NEO grant winner Gary Hug of Kansas, USA discovered the asteroid 2012 SY49 that flew by Earth about 2 lunar distances away later in the week.

Astronomers were watching when comet P / 2016 BA14 flew close by Earth on 22 March at a distance of slightly more than nine times the distance of the Moon.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

I met Nick on BBWDatingLove and it was by accident really, I had gotten his wink and was writing him a «yeah, you live in Canada» letter but in mid paragraph he popped up and said HI and I thought what the heck its not like this is going to go any where and its nice sometimes just talking to someone who can just be their authentic self for once since I had already written this guy off due to geography (I wasn't looking to relocate that far) we talk and the more get chatted the more I liked him and so after six or so months he flew out and met me and my whole entire family... I come from a blended family and so family came out of the wood works to meet the Canadian I had been «chatting» with since we all know that long distance relationships don't work!

And it's a remarkable way to end a remarkable career: a film with all the artistry that we've come to expect from Studio Ghibli, but by some distance proving to be a more grounded and realistic work, doing away with the giant cat creatures and courier - witches and flying pigs and moving castles that have defined his work.

From the opening sequences of witnessing a large draw distance and seeing seagulls fly right by an observation deck to the epic boss battles, The Wind Waker is full of visual splendor.

For example, by increasing «as the crow flies» travel distance from one mile to five miles, we more than double the number of families who could potentially take advantage of a private school or an intradistrict choice policy.

By Plane Depending on the size of your dog and the distance you are flying, different airlines have different policies regarding dogs.

All but one were able to come out to pick up their pup, with two flying in from considerable distances across the country and one traveling a long ways by car.

(The award zone is determined by the total distance flown in your itinerary, so understanding actual distance is helpful!)

When flying Alaska Airlines, you'll earn miles by flight distance and fare class.

Mileage will still be accrued on MileagePlus credit cards and, if you fly with a Star Alliance partner without a ticket issued by United, you will still earn miles the old way: distance flown and fare class.

The number of status credits earned is determined by the airline, fare type, and distance flown.

For purposes of mileage or MQD credit, «distance flown» means the calculated distance between origin and destination, as determined by Delta in its sole discretion, regardless of the actual distance traveled on any individual flight.

Elevate reward points are revenue - based, which means they're earned by ticket price rather than distance flown.

Status Points when flying Alaska Airlines are calculated by fare class and distance flown.

Great experience we offer for your holiday by offer two different activity on one day, is best blend to do water sports movement at the celebrated shoreline in Bali with clean water and white sands along the coast, you will appreciate the Banana Boat, Flying Fish, Glass Bottom Boat and Turtle Islands Tours, then after completion water games endeavor you will appreciate lunch with set smorgasbord Indonesia menu in local restaurant, After the lunch complete the Water Sports and Volcano View Tour packages will keep on visiting the Kintamani village for see the view of Mount Batur volcano and the lake from the distance, is great sensation to see the mountain view in during your journey in this amazing islands, After see the view of volcano we will visiting the Bali Coffee Plantations, this visit is perfect choices for those like to drink coffee, in here you can try the testing coffee for free and see wide variety the coffee plants including the famous coffee luwak or known as civets coffee.

At a little over 8,100 miles in length the route is still almost 1,000 miles short of the current longest route (Auckland — Doha operated by Qatar Airways) but this still a significant distance to fly.

The most famous Fly Fishing area is Savannah Flats, a shallow lagoon of open water, rimmed in the distance by numerous small cayes, famous for big Tarpon.

Tickets issued by United but operated on Star Alliance or MileagePlus partners will earn mileage via the new system, but tickets issued by those airlines directly will earn award miles based on distance flown and the purchased fare class.

This turboprop aircraft takes two hours to fly the 640 kms distance (880kms by road) and flies across the Southern Alps.

Right now, everyone that flies the same distance is recognized equally by most airlines.

American will still let you earn Executive Platinum just by flying long distances, regardless of the fare.

Like British Airways, the distance flown is calculated by segment rather than between origin and destination so the total flight distance can't increase too much or it will bump up the cost.

The longest flight currently is actually the # 2 world's longest flight by distance which is flown by Emirates from Auckland, New Zealand to Dubai, UAE.

When American Airlines announced the gutting of the AAdvantage program back in June and introduced us to EQD it was only able to tell us that, for flights marketed by partner airlines, EQD would be awarded based on the fare class purchased and the distance flown....

When you fly on a partner airline not marketed by AA, you'll always earn miles based on the distance and class of service, even after AA turns on its revenue - based component on its own flights.

Other changes that I've tried to implement is taking the train more for short — medium term distances (I recently enjoyed a fun journey from Amsterdam to Lisbon by train) as opposed to flying.