Sentences with phrase «flight hours only»

Flight attendants get paid for «flight hours only.»

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Even though only about 6 percent of Chinese people have a passport, China has become the world's largest outbound tourist market, with more than 135 million departures a year — and Angkor Wat is an easy two - or three - hour flight from many cities in China.

In 2009, the average private plane was flying only 200 hours a year — and empty - leg flights with no passengers accounted for one - third of that time.

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«So for example, your duty day could actually be 12 hours, but you only get paid for six hours of work,» one flight attendant said.

Eventually, Virgin hopes to send tourists on two - hour flights that provide views of Earth previously only seen by astronauts, plus about four minutes of weightlessness.

However, by the time they matched Davis only had a few hours to catch his 12 - hour flight back home.

«So, for example, your duty day could actually be 12 hours, but you only get paid for six hours of work,» one flight attendant says.

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Its only a 2 hour flight from London....

Okay so a train journey may only take a couple of hours, but when you think how many flights Arsenal take every month, I think that this one will do a lot less damage to the environment than most of their journeys.

Game finishes at midnight in Moscow, no chance of a flight home, cargo only that time of night, back to the hotel 1 - 30 am, 8 hours sleep, up at 10, get to airport 11 - 30, check in, flight 1 - 00 pm, lands at at Luton 5 pm, get away 6 pm, get home between 7 or 8 pm, in on Friday for some light training, fly to Newcastle Saturday for the game, get to St James's Park 12 Noon on Sunday for a 1 - 30 kick and they still couldn't let us have the late kick off.

Our flight to Lyon was only about an hour from Heathrow and on arrival we were greeted by a chauffeur who drove us the 2 hours to Hôtel Ibiza, the kids dozed at the beginning then then got more and more excited as we got higher and higher up the mountain, shouting excitedly every time we saw some snow.

The flight to New York was only an hour each way (and luckily the hum of the jet engine lulled him to sleep on both flights!)

Thankfully, the flight to Varadero from Toronto is only three hours.

The flight is only 3 hours, but they were massively uncomfortable.

They didn't want to be kept up hours after their bedtime for a cross-Atlantic flight, only to have to sit on the tarmac for 1.5 hours when all I desperately want is to be up in the air, have the stupid useless 11 pm meals served and removed, so that I can FINALLY get my now over-wired and over-tired children to sleep.

It's only about a two hour flight, however, my son is a very independent outspoken (even though it's mostly babble) child.

As we're based in the U.K., it's only a 4 - hour flight for us and was only a 20 - minute transfer when we arrived at the airport in Santorini.

A ten - hour flight with a cranky toddlers whose ears hurt may well be the nadir of our family travels, the only upside is that when you've hit rock - bottom, there's nowhere to go but up.

My baby doesn't like to be held while sleeping so the wrap is often the only way we can get her to sleep during the 3 hour church, and she has slept through 4 whole flights in the wrap!

The flight may only be 2 hours, but there's the drive there, checking in, boarding, etc to think about too.

Not only did Our 11 month old LOVED this and spent hours on it (while our flight was delayed) but we had so many comments and people wanting photos.

Space is very tight on board and there is only room for a single pilot and enough provisions for a 36 - hour flight.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

Brandon Routh: I definitely feel, and it was just the other day well when I flew in, I worked a couple of days ago, I worked in the morning, had a late flight didn't get my sleep, it was only a two hour flight from L.A. to Vancouver but I didn't get a lot of sleep.

You have two options: the first option is a direct flight that only takes a few hours, leaving you with plenty of energy to spare once you arrive at your destination.

SF Bay area About Blog Only a hour flight away from Las Vegas we visit frequently, sometimes once a month.

France was super far away, so I love that Punta Mita is only a three - hour flight for us (it almost seems like a piece of cake compared to flying to Paris!).

But typically they serve dinner at the beginning of the flight, about an hour or so after you take off (if the flight is closer to the evening — that's the only sort of Asia flight I've ever taken.)

Luckily, it's only a 3 hour flight away so I'm sure I'll be back.

Europe is so small... Even though I live in the «periphery of Europe», it only takes a 2 - 3 hours» flight to visit so many interesting places, and that makes weekend trips possible.

I was one of the fortunate ones whose Delta flight was only changed six times and delayed over five hours.

After living in Asia I appreciate short flights and the flight from Copenhagen to Nice takes only about 2 hours.

I'm originally from Toronto, only an hour flight both of New York.

(Usually the Cape is about a 7 hour drive from the city... the flight is only 35 minutes!)

Consider it, Asia is only a 12 hour flight from the US and Europe.

Think about it, Asia is only a 12 hour flight from the US and Europe.

SF Bay area About Blog Only a hour flight away from Las Vegas we visit frequently, sometimes once a month.

I was a captive audience on a 10 hour flight yesterday and still had to abort this movie after only 25 grueling minutes.

«I tend to only shop at airports when there's that hour before your flight,» she explained.

Paul Greengrass» powerful docu - drama retells the last hours leading up to the demise of United Flight 93, the only hijacked plane not to hit its intended target on September 11, 2001.

At the same time, the number of canceled flights with tarmac delays of more than two hours — those most likely to be canceled to avoid violating the rule — increased only slightly, from 336 between May 2009 and April 2010 to 387 between May 2010 and April 2011.

Airlines reported only one tarmac delay of more than three hours on domestic flights and one tarmac delay of more than four hours on international flights in November, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report.

The new rule prohibits U.S. airlines operating domestic flights from permitting an aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours without deplaning passengers, with exceptions allowed only for safety or security or if air traffic control advises the pilot in command that returning to the terminal would disrupt airport operations.

November was the second month in a row that the nation's largest airlines reported no flights with tarmac delays of more than three hours, while the carriers reported only a slight increase in the rate of canceled flights during the month, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

Data filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) showed the only tarmac delay longer than three hours reported in August by the 18 airlines that file on - time performance with DOT involved a United Airlines flight departing the San Juan airport on Aug. 5 that was diverted.

The nation's largest airlines reported only one flight in January with a tarmac delay of more than three hours, down from 20 flights in January 2010, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

Certain airports in the United States are so congested that the U.S. Government controls not only the number of take - offs and landings (slots) that can operated each day, but also the number of flights that can be operated each hour at the airport.

The new tarmac delay rule prohibits U.S. airlines operating domestic flights from permitting an aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours without deplaning passengers, with exceptions allowed only for safety or security or if air traffic control advises the pilot in command that returning to the terminal would disrupt airport operations.