Sentences with phrase «of plane flights»

All that so people can drive 2 tonne cars called SUV's that tell other people about their status, live in massive houses that costs a lot in fossil fuels to heat, again because of status mainly and take lots of plane flights to strange places for sight seeing tours that are soon forgotten when you return.

No one at the WTC or on any of the plane flights did anything to deserve what happened, so how can the terrorists involved even remotely think of themselves as acting in a way that was pleasing to God?

He charges $ 200.00 (US) per day, plus cost of his plane flight to accompany your group as a hired coach.

Not exact matches

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

American canceled the flight, so the 28 - year - old Branson went to the back of the airport and managed to hire a plane.

In June of that year, he led a flight of U.S. defenders against an 80 - plane attack by Japanese forces, disrupting the attack and shooting down seven of the enemy.

In a statement to the South China Morning Post, China Southern Airlines said that a man opened the emergency door of a plane before takeoff on a flight from Nanjing to Nanning.

The pilot of Flight 1380 made a safe emergency landing in Philadelphia, bringing the plane down quickly as the cabin depressurized.

Channel News Asia reported that a Lucky Air flight was held overnight after a 76 - year - old woman threw coins into the engine of the plane for good luck.

«About 80 percent of people sitting on the aisle moved at least once during their flights, compared with 62 percent in middle seats and 43 percent in window seats,» writes the New York Times, reporting the findings (and surprising no one who's been on a plane).

Which makes the golden rule of avoiding getting sick on a plane dead simple: choose a window seat and stay there for the duration of the flight.

The safest part of a flight is normally when the plane is at cruising elevation.

Buckman also sees big advances already being implemented in load balancing, using new mathematical algorithms to figure out optimal distributions of passenger and cargo weight within the plane for a better flight trim and therefore a more efficient flight.

Then there's a growing intensity of anxiety to get you onto the plane, so you don't miss your flight, because that's really important for them.

United typically oversells flights by less than zero to 3 % of the plane's seat capacity to account for no - shows.

Except, as Wills knows, the business of getting the parts to the planes is something of a logistical minuet that involves finding the component, some of which can run to $ 250,000, loading it on a commercial flight, dealing with customs, and finally getting the part into the hands of the mechanics at the other end.

The program «60 Minutes» alleges Allegiant's planes are more likely to have mechanical problems in - flight versus its competitors, citing industry experts and a review of FAA records.

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.

Within a week of the debacle, two Air Canada flights to Mexico imprisoned passengers on their planes for more than eight hours.

One passenger was killed Tuesday on a Dallas - bound Southwest flight after an engine exploded, causing shrapnel to cut into the Boeing 737 - 700's fuselage, or the body of the plane.

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.

Passengers aboard Southwest Flight 1380 had rushed to pull the victim back into the plane after she was partially sucked out of a window, witnesses said.

The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.

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.

Other things to consider when bringing an infant on a plane include colder temperatures in the cabin, loud noise levels during takeoff, the change in oxygen level during the flight, and the presence of a properly secured safety seat, according to the Mayo Clinic.

So although scientists have an estimate of the plane's flight path via its satellite data, they still have to trace any remains they find using the data they have on ocean currents and wind.

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.

Flight - tracking website FlightRadar24.com saw the plane land for one last departure in the U.S. territory located squarely in the path of Irma's landfall, fill with passengers, and make its successful flight back to New York on WednFlight - tracking website FlightRadar24.com saw the plane land for one last departure in the U.S. territory located squarely in the path of Irma's landfall, fill with passengers, and make its successful flight back to New York on Wednflight back to New York on Wednesday.

A Delta - operated flight from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back, made headlines for narrowly avoiding the storm in a mission to evacuate another plane - full of passengers from the area ahead of Irma's landfall.

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.

More from NBC News: In major reversal, Trump says China «not currency manipulators» Suspected gunman in Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's killing arrested Tillerson tells Putin that U.S. - Russia relations «at a low point» A United spokeswoman told the AP on Wednesday that all passengers aboard that flight will receive compensation equal to the cost of their plane tickets.

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

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.

Song Chunjie, whose sister was on the plane, said in China shortly after the debris of another aircraft, AirAsia Flight 8501, was spotted in Indonesia's Java Sea in early January.

In March 2014, the same month the plane disappeared during its flight, Reuters reported that military radar data suggested the plane was purposely flown hundreds of miles off the planned flight path.

«I tried to ignore the people until 10 minutes passed and a flight attendant came over to me and asked me and my baby to move to the back of the plane (as if the people in the back didn't matter).

The move followed reports of a Samsung device exploding on a Southwest flight Wednesday, forcing the plane to evacuate.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a United Airlines hub, was most affected by cancellations, with more than 1,000 canceled flights, close to 80 percent of its schedule, according to FlightAware, a plane - tracking website.

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.

Kokonis expects the airline will eventually use the planes to add flight frequencies targeting corporate and government travellers on the lucrative eastern triangle of Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

While most of your flight should be dedicated to work, it might be a good idea to just relax during the plane's initial ascent and acceleration, so that you don't find yourself with a massive headache half an hour into your flight.

The confined climate in the plane will dehydrate you, so drink lots of water before, during and after your flight.

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.

All outgoing flights were halted, and arriving planes were held on the ground at their point of departure.

Airbus is using Stratasys» production - grade printers to print flight parts for its new A350 XWB airplane; the first one of these planes delivered in December 2014 had more than 1,000 3D - printed parts installed in it.

What I want is a seat near the front of the plane so that I'm one of the first to get out and swiftly walk to immigration or the next flight.

As for Boeing's hypersonic plane, Muilenburg admited the company still has to prove there are enough people around who are willing to pay for an ultra-fast flight to the other half of the world.

Then, I will deprive myself of sleep until I get on the plane (i.e., work all night until my 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. flight), pass out for the duration of the flight, and land in the morning ready to go.

(Space planes would be much faster because they'd complete part of their flights in space, where factors like winds and air friction are not an issue.)