Sentences with phrase «of flights each day»

They demonstrate that while mechanical problems are statistically inevitable given the sheer number of flights each day, flying is still by far the safest mode of travel.

Running an airline on time and with customers properly served means performing hundreds of tasks on thousands of flights a day — millions of tasks in total.

There are hundreds of flights every day from the U.S. and Canada to dozens of cities in Mexico... most of them will get you there in just a couple of hours.

It's a major travel destination in and of itself so there are literally hundreds of flights a day going in and out of the McCarran International Airport.

Once we arrived at the terminal, we made our way to the check - in counter, and found the first class line empty as only one of their flights each day offers a first class cabin.

The US might go from 400 major airports to 50, and «instead of dozens of flights each day between New York and San Francisco carrying 200 people apiece, there might be only a handful carrying 800 or more in new extra-jumbo jets.»

Packing light also means you simply have less baggage, which can be a boon for everyone when you consider the overcrowding of flights these days.

Not exact matches

«But, of course, the CIA knew the flight paths of Soviet satellites, and they would avoid having their aircraft in the open when satellites were overhead,» Day told SPACE.com.

This year World View aims to complete flights that last «one or two months,» Poynter said — far beyond the company's record of a five - day flight, set last year.

The platform gives travelers the option to book a flight seven days in advance or up to an hour ahead of time.

Flooding from a water main break added to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.

For the majority of the year, Lufthansa flight attendants wear skirt suits, but for select days during Oktoberfest, they don traditional Bavarian dirndls.

Those five gates could mean «30 or 40 flights a day,» said Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

After noticing that he got some of his best work done on long intercontinental flights, Guido established «Airplane Days» to help him get things done.

The WiFi was solid, the snacks to accompany the full bar of top shelf spirits were excellent, and I got more work done in a lounge armchair than I had all day leading up to my flight.

American Airlines rerouted three flights out of more than 6,000 a day amid tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

«We know we can shoot HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] off the flight deck of a ship,» Neller said during remarks at the at the Marine Corps League's annual Modern Day Marine expo in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 21, according to Defense News.

Musk chimed in a few days later to confirm the tentative date of the rocket's maiden flight: «Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy.

MONTABAUR, Germany — Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appeared happy and healthy to acquaintances, but a picture emerged Friday of a man who hid evidence of an illness from his employers — including a torn - up doctor's note that would have kept him off work the day authorities say he crashed Flight 9525 into an Alpine mountainside.

«If these bilateral agreements are not negotiated by October 2018 then the chances of being rectified by March 2019 are very slim, which means there's a distinct possibility that there could be no flights in and out the U.K. for a period of time... days, weeks, months, we don't know,» Sorahan warned.

The last couple of days before flight, we were reunited with our families.

While the trip's big costs are out of the way — I bought my flight in October and I'll be staying with a friend — stretching $ 60 over the four days I'm there could be tricky.

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 day.

Our bodies can only take so many sneezes on a flight before our immune system takes a hit and we find ourselves spending our hard - earned vacation days staring at the ceiling of a hotel bathroom.

Great ideas usually come from unexpected connections and initially unproductive flights of curiosity, and it's sometimes hard to pursue those possibilities when you're knee - deep in day - to - day concerns.

«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.

Rascoff: Not that it makes much difference, but it wasn't the September 11 flights, it was the flights a couple of days earlier that put the team in place in Bangor, Maine, and then they flew from Bangor to Logan.

«The data shows the lowest rates of delayed flights on Thanksgiving day,» claims the analysis.

For those who can jump through those day - of - travel hoops, Southwest's sale covers international flights from Oct. 31 through Dec. 13 and from Jan. 10 through March 2.

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports have gone on strike for the second time in four days, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

One day, Bob was sitting near the front of one of their flights, intently monitoring the used meal trays that the flight attendants brought back to the galley.

Comparing state - by - state flight searches for travel over the end - of - summer holiday to last year's Labor Day searches, Kayak's data crunchers found that online searchers in Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee have been checking out vacations in the U.K. — now more affordable thanks to a deep swoon in the British pound.

Just a few days ago, relatives of Flight 17's victims gathered in hangars on a Dutch air base to view twisted and charred wreckage from the plane where their loved ones were lost.

When flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out passengers on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport in New York before grabbing a couple of beers and exiting the aircraft via the evacuation slide, jetBlue took a few days before deciding on an appropriate response.

The National Air Traffic Control Service expected Friday to be the busiest day of the year with a record 8,800 flights criss - crossing British airspace.

On Day of Silence no flights are allowed in or out of the island, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

Ready, set, board your flight: Here's how you can manage your Turkey Day trip without losing any of your holiday cheer.

Airlines including American, United, JetBlue and Delta have added flights to Florida to the last few days to move as many passengers and the carriers» expensive planes out of harms way.

Anywhere from 15 % to 25 % of the day's flights had been canceled at the New York JFK, Newark Liberty, Philadelphia, Washington Reagan National, Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., airports.

In an online forum, a Flight Attendant described the boarding process as «the craziest part of a Flight Attendant's day.»

And until the dying days of 2008, Makani was humming along, honing its technology and increasing both the size of the kites and the duration of their flights.

As I was working up a sweat climbing 40 flights of stairs with my kettle bell the other day, I thought about someone I interviewed a while back who went through a dramatic change of heart.

The plan goes something like this: Each day at the conclusion of «Power Lunch», producer Courtney Ford and I will pack up and race to the airport to catch our flight to the next day's destination.

Now how that could be incorporated throughout your day could be going up a flight of stairs, or jogging on the spot as vigorously as you can, 10 push - ups, anything that's going to — especially if you're in a sedentary state and you shift yourself into doing some kind of physical movement like that, it's going to stimulate your body, right?

That was surely the experience of passengers on a Germanwings flight from Hamburg to Cologne the day after the airline's tragedy in the Alps.

Each of these flights are on 777 - 300ER aircraft, and their ticket prices are all for the same day in late 2015.

The most dramatic and horrifying of the day's emergency landings was Southwest Airlines Flight 1380.

That means that regardless of what time I leave, I will ensure that I am awake for the first three hours of the flight and the seven hours prior to boarding the plane, even if it means an early start to the day before.

He suggested that I drink the equivalent of a bottle of wine within the first couple hours of the flight and sleep for the last six to seven hours, arriving refreshed and ready to take on the day.

The cancellation of an international flight can make logistical problems snowball into disruptions lasting more than a day because both aircraft and crews are out of position.