Sentences with phrase «of flights travelling»

As well as being more environmentally friendly than heaps of flights travelling overland is also way more fun!

Planes are capable of flight travel and can be used to reach high platforms that a car and hovercraft normally can not reach.

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However, he said he was concerned about the «disconnect» between the standard of proof required for designating a flight as a «White House support mission,» and the proof that was actually given to back up Mnuchin's travels.

Those are instances when you may want to leave it to a pro to handle the logistics of traveling to an exotic locale and coordinating flights, ground transportation, accommodations and dinner reservations, or even a local tour guide or translator.

A 2017 survey from the air travel site Airfwarewatchdog found that a little over half of respondents believe families with children aged 10 and under should have to sit in a designated section apart from other passengers, and the idea of separating children and adults has gained traction on Reddit, where threads with titles like «Would you pay extra for a child - free flight?

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

Southwest Airlines isn't selling flights, they are selling the experience of travelling as affordably as possible, making them the most accessible travel company to the widest range of people.

Luckily (okay, beyond luckily, sorry), I was booked on the same flight the following month for a conference, and I relieved all the glory of being treated like traveling royalty the entire time I was in transit.

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.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on Allegiant Travel falling ahead of a»60 Minutes» report on in - flight breakdowns.

I don't know about you, but in - flight WiFi is one of my favorite modern travel conveniences.

As part of United's crisis management, the airline said late Wednesday that all passengers on Sunday's United Express Flight 3411 are getting reimbursement equal to the cost of their tickets, which can be taken in cash, travel credits, or miles.

«The rise in serious incidents involving animals in flight leads us to believe that the lack of regulation in both health and training screening for these animals is creating unsafe conditions across U.S. air travel,» said John Laughter, Delta's senior vice president for corporate safety, security and compliance.

«Some of our aircraft are equipped with mood lighting and while this was not a company - wide initiative, at times, our flight crews will adjust the lighting for a customer or group of customers traveling on their flight.

«This is a truly historic flight that opens up a new era of travel.

«Because we are in the hospitality and recreation business, which is largely dependent on discretionary spending,» the company's latest financial report explains, «we believe that the weak housing market, increases in unemployment, decreases in air flights to Las Vegas, decreases in the value of stock and other investments, and the general tightening of spending on business travel have all affected visitations to Las Vegas and the spending budget of our customers.»

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

A lot of people show up to the airport only to be turned away from their flight because they forgot or simply weren't aware that they needed a travel visa.

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During the week of spring break in mid-March, 6,800 American Airlines passengers missed their flights because of long checkpoint lines, foreshadowing the headaches that airlines fear during the peak summer travel months.

Customers traveling within Canada must now arrive for check - in within 45 minutes of their flight, rather than 30 minutes.

Boeing hopes to create hypersonic commercial flights that will travel 5 times the speed of sound.

A travel agent on Guam said they haven't had a surge of customers seeking to book flights off the island.

Tokyo clocked the missile as traveling about 500 miles and reaching a height of 1,240 miles during its half - hour flight.

As an entrepreneur, you likely travel a lot, and you already know that jet lag (which science geeks call «flight dysrhythmia») can cause all kinds of unpleasant symptoms: insomnia, loss of appetite, depressed mood, upset stomach, fatigue and mental fuzziness, to name a few.

The inconveniences of air travel can range for disastrous to mildly irritating, whether it's a canceled flight or a seemingly endless security line.

The Justice Department imposed conditions on the acquisition, forcing Google to maintain separation between its search and travel flights businesses and to submit to government monitoring of complaints for five years.

During the week of spring break in mid-March, 6,800 American Airlines passengers missed their flights because of long checkpoint lines, foreshadowing the headaches that airlines fear during the peak summer travel months.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce talks about the airline's non-stop 17 - hour flight from Perth to London and the economics of air travel.

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.

And with relaxed travel restrictions and sanctioned commercial flights on the horizon, there's plenty of interest in flights to Havana.

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.

After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.

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.

Even though the BFR will spew out tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the impacts may not be much greater than current global air travel (depending how many flights end up happening).

Flight Centre CEO Graham Turner says the business was affected by the hammering of the pound and softness in the business travel segment.

Emirates said it slashed 20 percent of its flights to the U.S. in the wake of the restrictions, though Dubai International Airport remains the world's busiest international travel hub.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

To be sure, any dip in travel to Southeast Asia is unlikely to hurt profits for U.S. airlines because they have few flights to the region, relying instead on other carriers to transport their customers with the help of marketing or «codeshare» agreements.

Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) also conducted a survey of travellers to go with its rate cut, finding that: «Canadians» preferred activities include using maps (71 %), looking up restaurants and local activities (61 %), checking the weather (57 %), and reviewing their travel or flight status on their device (58 %).»

That travel includes first - class flights to his home state of Oklahoma and at least $ 90,000 in expenses accrued during a short stretch of January.

According to the airline, the sponsorship deal means the inclusion of limited edition travel kits with slippers, headphones and other in - flight items befitting the film's theme, as well as new movie - themed menu items, dedicated travel guides to Gotham City and Metropolis, and a special edition frequent flyer card.

Last weekend, Delta scrapped a program for NRA members that provided discounted flights to members who planned to travel to Atlanta for one of the gun group's major conferences.

The travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

In any given year, the world - famous jet setter and his assistant Helen Clarke visit some 50 cities, meaning Clarke, once a Virgin flight attendant, spends the majority of her time travel planning.

«In the past, you'd buy a flight from point A to point B, but The Explorer wants to make decisions on the go,» Todd Arthur, Vice President of sales and market development for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, told CNBC.

For its 2018 travel planning guide, Hipmunk ran data from millions of flights over an 18 - month booking window.

Expedia's rewards program gives members two points for each dollar of travel booked through its site, which can be used to book hotels or flights for yourself or someone else.

That means that passengers could easily spend longer waiting in line at immigration than in flight, if the usual experience of international travel is anything to go by.

For example, when I traveled to London on Virgin Air I made friends with all of the flight attendants serving the first class pods (where I was sitting that trip).