Sentences with phrase «crewed flights in»

The Ares rocket and Orion capsule, modeled on the Saturn rocket and Apollo module from the 1960s, should begin crewed flights in 2015.

Ferguson discussed the first crewed flight in the context of Starliner's other testing, which must be extensive to meet NASA's human - rating requirements.

Not exact matches

So I think at least 100 people per trip is the right order of magnitude, and I think we may actually made up expanding the crew section and ultimately taking more like 200 more people per flight in order to reduce the cost per person.

The flight crews are brought together with colleagues from different departments and trained in conflict resolution, hospitality and emotional intelligence, to help employees truly understand the customer's perspective; to resolve issues and not push them up the chain.

I am not famous nor rich, but the in - air staff treated me, and seemingly every passenger, like we were., Though I felt like I and my well - worn Diane Von Furstenberg silk travel pants paired with J. Crew turtleneck pretty much negated any chance I had at fitting in with the business class crowd, the flight attendants never made me feel like I didn't belong.

The flight was supposed to fly from Anqing to Kunming in southwestern China on October 19, 2017, but when passengers noticed the woman tossing coins into the plane's engine, they alerted crew members onboard.

In addition to maroon or dark gray uniforms, crew members on Qatar Airways flights also wear black heels.

For example, in October, one of our flight crews changed the lighting to honor a breast cancer survivor onboard their flight.»

The letter, which was obtained by CNBC, added,» (Crew members) were left with no choice but to call Chicago Aviation Security Officers to assist in removing the customer from the flight.»

Once onboard, like kids set free on a playground, the passengers climbed into the cockpit, spread out in plush first class beds and crawled into the hidden bunk beds where crews nap during long trans - Pacific flights.

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.

United had spent the last two weeks embroiled in controversy after videos recorded by fellow passengers, which went viral, showed David Dao, 69, yanked from his seat aboard a Louisville, Kentucky - bound United flight before takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to make room for crew members.

In the case of the United Express flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday, four crew members were required to board the plane in order to work from Louisville the following daIn the case of the United Express flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday, four crew members were required to board the plane in order to work from Louisville the following dain order to work from Louisville the following day.

In the intervening 17 hours, a compounding series of misfortunes — a broken de-icing machine, frozen engines and brakes, a lack of gates at the terminal, a plane that idled so long it had to refuel, a crew that worked so long it needed to be replaced — turned the flight into an almanac of the indignities of modern air travel.

Though Americans might not see AirAsia or Firefly's uniforms as particularly revealing, female flight crew members feature prominently in AirAsia's marketing materials.

A 69 - year - old doctor, Dao was one of four people who was randomly selected to get off the oversold plane just before it was supposed to take off Sunday from O'Hare International Airport for Louisville, in order to make room for United flight crew members who needed to get to an assignment.

«My best advice is to try to avoid confrontations on airplanes, even when the flight crew is in the wrong,» Green told me.

Don't ask to speak to the pilot, because pilots are trained to prioritize cockpit duties and usually defer to their in - flight crew's judgment when a cabin issue is reported.

The other high - profile event of 2014, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew, has become one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviFlight MH370 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew, has become one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviflight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew, has become one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation.

They also need to position their crew out of the stalled airport and in cities where flights can resume once airports are reopened.

The airline replaced a fuel pump pressure switch in response to a problem a flight crew had documented two days before the repair.

As Microsoft noted in a Tuesday blog post, people are already using HoloLens for training flight crews and aircraft mechanics.

«We tend to have a culture where... people don't generally speak up,» said Jason Tan, a former Singapore Airlines flight attendant who works as a consultant training cabin crews in Asia and the Middle East.

United Airlines said on Wednesday it planned to testify at an upcoming U.S. House Transportation Committee hearing on commercial airline consumer issues after a passenger was dragged off an April 9 flight in Chicago to make room for crew members.

Most people Reuters contacted about in - flight sexual misconduct, against passengers and crew — including airlines, flight attendant unions and airline training consultants — said incidents are vastly under - reported.

The airline said late on Monday that although Cho was responsible for supervising in - flight service, it was «excessive» that the plane was returned to the gate to expel a crew member in a non-emergency situation.

Cho summoned the cabin crew chief to ask whether the flight attendant was following the in - flight service manual, and the crew chief could not answer promptly, the airline said.

A Korean Air Lines Co executive, whose dismay over the way she was served macadamia nuts led to a plane returning to its gate to expel the cabin crew chief, has stepped down as head of in - flight service, the airline said on Tuesday.

According to Reuters, Korean Air stated that its cabin crew were hesitant to deploy its tasers because the equipment is only allowed to be used in situation where the lives of the passengers and crew are in danger or if the safety of the flight is under threat.

If this isn't possible, flight crew might place the deceased in the galley or move the passenger to first class.

The crew of the flight from the London to Shanghai dealt with the incident in a responsible manner and the trip continued without incident.

WestJet has always cultivated a folksy image: Frequent flyers in the 1990s remember flight crews cracking jokes, singing songs and holding contests to find out which passenger was carrying the most Canadian Tire money.

Our crew have requested that police meet the flight in Boston due to an unruly customer on board.

NASA ordered its first commercial flight crew from Boeing in May earlier this year, and then, in November, the agency ordered a crewed flight using SpaceX's Crew Dracrew from Boeing in May earlier this year, and then, in November, the agency ordered a crewed flight using SpaceX's Crew DraCrew Dragon.

NASA ordered its first commercial flight crew from Boeing in May earlier this year, and then, in November, the agency

NASA has announced four more contracts to SpaceX and Boeing for crewed flights to the International Space Station in 2018.

In addition, the Southwest rep mentioned the company's flight crew strived to give the family seats together on the plane.

The company ended up billing the utility above - market rates for expenses, charged nearly double the standard wages for line crews, and used expensive charter flights to bring in supplies.

While weather is a factor in roughly half of all flight delays, Gerchick writes in his book that nearly a third can be attributed to factors that regulators consider to be within an airline's control, including mechanical problems and crew scheduling mix - ups.

He was cooperative with the flight crew and was seated when the flight landed in Anchorage.

Instructor Profile: Joined the civil aviation industry as a cabin crew member with Adria Airways in 1997 and stayed with the airline for 20 years holding several position as Flight Ops Officer, Station Manager, Ground Ops Manager and Facilitation & Aviation Security Manager.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

«While we're unaware of details surrounding a specific flight, our flight crews celebrate, commemorate, acknowledge and share in special moments with our customers all the time.

Rock and his small crew pile into a rented Gulfstream after the show for a red - eye flight across two time zones for tomorrow's show in Richmond, Virginia.

President Donald Trump is meeting with the crew and passengers of a Southwest Airlines flight forced into an emergency landing in Philadelphia after an engine exploded.

The fact that the passengers and crew of Flight 1549 were terrorized and the plane destroyed, that 11 innocent people are dead in Aurora, that the girl was held for seven days, ra.ped and sod.omized and will be traumatized for the rest of her life, or that a number of innocent civilians were killed by the missile.

Please let the creator's children pray... They need him... We need him... For crying out loud... Literally... Nobody in this world is a stranger to the Jewish culture... Especially Flight crews.

RFK assassination; Munich Olympics massacre; Teheran US embassy takeover; Pan Am Flight 103; US Marine barracks in Beirut blown up; Pope John Paul II shot; cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked — disabled man murdered; TWA 847 hijacked — US Navy diver murdered; WTC bombed; US embassies Kenya Tanzania bombed; USS Cole bombed 17 crew killed; 4 airliners hijacked to destroy WH, Twin Towers, Pentagon; Daniel Pearl kidnapped / beheaded; 13 US Ft Hood Soldiers murdered; Theo Van Gogh murdered for producing film «Submission»; US Ambassador to Libya assassinated; US Embassy in Cairo ransacked; Toulouse, France, 4 Jewish children murdered

Discussions with space microbiologists, flight surgeons, and space food technologists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX indicate that if microbial levels are sufficiently low, the crew could consume the fresh produce without sanitizing.

The kind of turbulence where the pilot keeps interrupting the in - flight «entertainment» with his best you're - not - going - to - die voice to tell the flight crew to strap in.