Sentences with phrase «by flight basis»

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The crisis was exacerbated by the poaching of crew by other airlines, forcing the Dublin - based carrier to cancel more than 20,000 flights and propose a new pay deal in order to maintain other services.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

For instance, American won the contract for travel from Chicago to Abu Dhabi in 2017, but the flights are operated by Etihad Airways, based in the United Arab Emirates.

The largest U.S. airlines have taken issue with a contract for federal employees to buy flights between New York and Milan in 2017 from JetBlue, which are marketed by the New York - based airline but operated exclusively by its codeshare partner, Dubai - based Emirates.

Last fall, Germany - based Lufthansa Group, which includes Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines, began charging a booking fee of 16 euros for any flight not sold directly by the airline.

Otherwise, with an entire weekend to get to our first destination, we probably would not have chosen North Carolina — a two - hour flight by regional jet from our home base in the New York City area.

The telecommunications company said that by late 2015, it would build a new air - to - ground network based on 4G LTE, creating a better wireless experience on continental flights.

Based off of data from OAG, an airline data provider, the United flight between Los Angeles and Singapore is the third longest in the world by mileage in 2017.

The aggregate incremental cost of personal use of the company aircraft is calculated based on a cost - per - flight - hour charge developed by a nationally recognized and independent service.

The Veggie system was developed by Madison, Wis. - based Orbital Technologies Corp. and tested at the Kennedy Space Centre before flight.

Well, the Manchester based teams have been dominating the top flight of English football and if things do not change by the end of the year, the Italian manager might have to take some strong steps to turn things in his team's favour.

The flight is being organised by Air Charter Scotland Ltd, a charter company based in East Kilbride.

Strike action is expected at about 35 bases across the UK, but skeleton cover by the military's own firefighters and those from local authorities means flights should remain unaffected.

Last year, using ground - based telescopes, a team led by Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reported that Mars's methane is concentrated in vast plumes.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

Prompted by Webb's damaged thrusters and sunshield, the latest delay to May 2020 is based on the findings of another independent review helmed by NASA's Paul McConnaughey, an associate director of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center.

A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.

«Had we pressed on with the Saturn V, we could have had a lunar base by 1975,» says Paul Lowman, a geophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

However, he says there is a lesson in the way London - based satellite communications firm Inmarsat's engineers traced flight MH370's route by analysing just seven empty data packets sent from the plane.

Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tests.

This work is based on observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), managed and controlled by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Crew pairing is an extremely complex process by which airlines connect the legs of a flight so that the flight crew needed for each airplane is properly assigned and ends up where they live, or their crew base.

Here Mills et al. model the falcon's cognition using guidance laws inspired by theory and experiment, and embody this in a physics - based simulation of predator and prey flight.

Under contract with Arizona State University, MSSS developed and delivered the LROC cameras — two Narrow Angle Cameras (NAC) based on the MRO CTX design and one Wide Angle Camera system (WAC) based on the MRO MARCI — for the LRO Project managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

For those who prefer a more rigorous approach or are crossing numerous time zones, check out Jet Lag Rooster, which generates free step - by - step, customized jet lag — prevention plans, plus suggests best times for bright - light exposure based on your usual sleep times, flight length, time of year, and home and destination locations.

It's actually based on a book called «Wild Pork and Watercress,» by New Zealand comic - adventure novelist Barry Crump, but it's been freely adapted and directed by Taika Waititi, the «Flight of the Conchords» cohort who made the hilarious «What We Do in the Shadows.»

Screenplay: Lukas Heller, based on the novel The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor.

The film is based on an original story by Steven Knight and will be produced by Graham King, Zemeckis and Steve Starkey («Flight»).

The film project, based on the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, is about an Army veteran named Roger Holder and girlfriend Cathy Kerkow hijacking a Western Airlines Flight in a protest against the war in Vietnam.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Assault (R for violence) Fact - based thriller recounting the Christmas Eve hijacking in 1994 of Air France Flight 8969 from Algiers to Marseilles by four Islamic terrorists determined to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower.

Based on a cult novel by Walter Kirn, Thumbsucker works when its obsession with flight and freedom from dependency is carried in images and song (its soundtrack by Polyphonic Spree and the last new recordings by the late Elliott Smith will be the chief reasons for the picture's nominal success) as opposed to all the dark musings meant to underscore each character's own obvious dependencies.

The movie is based on the 1976 hijacking by German and Palestinian radicals of an Air France flight with more than 200 passengers, of whom more than 80 were Israeli or Jewish.

KEY DECEMBER 2017 ON - TIME PERFORMANCE AND FLIGHT CANCELLATION STATISTICS Based on Data Filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 12 Reporting Carriers and Tarmac Data Filed by All Carriers

KEY JANUARY 2018 ON - TIME PERFORMANCE AND FLIGHT CANCELLATION STATISTICS Based on Data Filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 18 Reporting Carriers and Tarmac Data Filed by All Carriers

The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements on their websites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.

KEY ON - TIME PERFORMANCE AND FLIGHT CANCELLATION STATISTICS Based on Data Filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 16 Reporting Carriers

KEY JUNE 2017 ON - TIME PERFORMANCE AND FLIGHT CANCELLATION STATISTICS Based on Data Filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the 12 Reporting Carriers and Tarmac Data Filed by All Carriers

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced that Asiana Airlines, an airline based in the Republic of Korea, violated federal law last July by failing to adhere to the assurances in its family assistance plan following the crash of Asiana flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today assessed a civil penalty of $ 80,000 against Alitalia, an airline based in Italy, for violating an international treaty by limiting reimbursement to passengers whose baggage was lost or delayed on Alitalia flights to and from the United States.

The sections that deal with flight delays, mishandled baggage and oversales are based on data collected by the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

If the flights required redemption of miles or points, we used the average number of points needed for those flights, based on the redemption schedules as published by the provider.

* MileagePlus program members earn miles based on the fare and MileagePlus status for most flights operated by United and United Express ®, with some exclusions.

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.

It's determined on a flight - by - flight basis.

JetBlue is offering a Spring Forward special to help you earn more and get a leap toward Mosaic elite status by offering double base points on all flights if you register and book your flight by March 23 for travel until April 30.

◊ Savings calculated based on pricing available through WestJet on September 12, 2017 for a round - trip flight, Econo fare, from Toronto to Montego Bay, February 17 - 24, 2018, operated by WestJet when using the free first bag paying for the first bag as booked online.

† † Calculation based on the base fare paid for a WestJet - marketed flight purchased directly from WestJet by a member who has reached Gold during the applicable qualifying year, and has used the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard with maximum earn potential.

◊ ◊ Savings calculated based on pricing available through WestJet on September 12, 2017 for a round - trip flight, Plus Lowest fare, from Toronto to London (Gatwick) June 30 - July 7, 2018, operated by WestJet when using the companion voucher not using the voucher as booked online.

The devastating floods wrought by Hurricane Harvey have grounded flights and shut down operations in Houston for Chicago - based United Airlines, with major flight disruptions expected throughout the week.