Sentences with phrase «of plane seats»

With this method — in which the company with the rewards program controls the inventory of its plane seats or hotel rooms — the airline or hotel group simply deducts the points from your loyalty program account and creates a reservation in its system.

Car seat widths vary a lot, from 17 — 21 inches, more or less, as do the widths of plane seats, so research is key to make sure you're not left with a useless car seat on the plane.

Not exact matches

It cost me $ 10,000 of my time to pre-select the seat I wanted, investigate type of plane & go back periodically to review seat options https://t.co/eaj1QOpvHq

Yet mighty Boeing still took issue with the Canadian company's sale of 75 of its 110 - seat, C - Series planes to Delta Airlines, even though Boeing doesn't build such a plane.

I personally find comfort in the window seat of the plane, near the front of the wing.

While a company may be able to find ways to improve the interiors of their planes or trains, perhaps installing more comfortable seats and serving better meals, that expensive technology and luxurious design will count for nothing if customer service is shoddy.

If it is about a cramped space, choosing an aisle seat towards the front of the plane will help.

Airline passengers have come to expect a tiny escape from the confined space of today's packed planes: the ability to recline their seat a few inches.

«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.

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

NEW YORK (AP)-- Airline passengers have come to expect a tiny escape from the confined space of today's packed planes: the ability to recline their seat a few inches.

It's important to be respectful of your seat - mates when it comes to whether you can talk their ear off or not on a plane.

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.

In February, he visited the Boeing plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, which manufactures the carbon - fiber, 330 - seat plane Trump described as «an amazing piece of art.»

From the secret to snagging an entire row of seats on the plane, to rigging your suitcase so it (hopefully) appears at the baggage claim first, here's a bunch of clever little tricks that make traveli...

For what it's worth, there were plenty of Americans on those planes, and I don't think I saw an empty seat aboard even one of them.

Ninety percent of survey respondents said that going barefoot on a plane is definitely not cool, and 51 % of those surveyed said seat kickers are the worst.

What with a doctor dragged screaming and kicking off a plane, another person in first class threatened with handcuffs if he didn't leave his seat for someone of «higher priority,» or the man reportedly stung by a scorpion that fell on him from an overhead bin.

The remaining 10 % is made up of the airline's 50 - seater planes, which aren't equipped with Wi - Fi.

«These seats, in order to fit more of them in each plane, don't have the foam padding of yesteryear,» says airline analyst George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchdog, a travel site.

So far, the Trump administration has sided with Boeing and recommended tariffs of almost 300 percent on the planes, which seat about 100 to 125 passengers.

Competitor WestJet (TSX: WJA) is launching a discount regional carrier in the second half of next year and also introduced a premium economy section that will include 24 seats per plane once the fleet has been reconfigured.

It wasn't until boarding that the crew realized there was a trio of vacant seats at the back of the plane.

The wide - body planes, for example, will be fitted with 20 per cent more seats, raising the number of passengers to 275 per aircraft.

Southwest said it hopes to increase capacity ± the number of seats on its planes — by 8 % this year, up from its earlier goal of 7 %, the Wall Street Journal reports.

It's tough to hear the dialogue over the loud drone of plane engines, never mind the guy passed out in the next seat.

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.

The company also said it will add 15 seats to each of its Airbus A320 planes over about two years, beginning in mid-2016.

El - Erian acknowledges that it would be tricky for a plane full of strangers to pull off, and if just one member decided they'd be better off giving up their seat and getting compensation lower than the $ 9,950, the alliance would crumble.

Those traveling on Saver Fare tickets will also board last and will be seated at the back of the plane.

The flight attendants actually offered to move Zuckerberg, the victim of a fellow passenger's acts of sexual harassment, to a center seat in the back of the plane.

At the last minute, three White men entered the plane and took seats in front of us.

Discount carriers like Southwest and JetBlue were reshaping the industry with cheap fares and an easy - to - understand business model: fly one type of plane, sell only economy - class seats and treat passengers like human beings.

Air Canada could pack as many as 109 more economy - class seats onto some of its Boeing 777s, while WestJet plans to use the seats to free up more room for its own premium economy section at the front of its planes.

A video posted on Facebook on Sunday evening showed security pulling the passenger from his seat and dragging him down the aisle of a Louisville - bound plane before it took off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

Southwest Airlines Co. is stepping up inspections on its jet fleet after investigators said they discovered evidence of metal fatigue on an engine that exploded Tuesday, sending shrapnel into the plane and killing a passenger seated near a window.

The word «rogue» entered the lexicon of Alberta politics after Auditor General Merwan Saher reviewed Alison Redford's use of government aircraft and found that somebody booked «false passengers» onto government flights in order to block seats and then unbooked them so that Ms Redford and her entourage could have the plane all to themselves.

After no passengers voluntarily gave up their seats in the overbooked flight for $ 1,000, the airline randomly selected customers who would be booted out of the plane.

American Airlines, for instance, is decreasing the number of seats in some of their planes after replacing as many as 40 economy seats with 24 «premium economy» seats, which are wider and cost around $ 20 more, the Dallas Business Journal reports.

However, that didn't put me in the pilot's seat of that plane.

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist:: I read this book on a plane and I totally cried in seat 30A.

Monday's bombardment that killed nearly 100 people saw the use of war planes, helicopter gunships, and missiles as well as artillery, in a major escalation of violence near President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

and then I spent most of the eight hour plane ride rearranging the playlist because, for some crazy reason, that was more important than finishing the seating arrangements or trying to figure out who was going to make the overpriced bunch of flowers I was going to carry down the aisle.

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

Remember when United Airlines violently dragged the guy off one of its planes because they needed the seat for a United employee?

MacPherson, a 23 - year - old dental student at the University of Nebraska, makes do with a hoary single - engine plane called a Luscombe, a cramped two - seater that was built the same year he was born and drones through the sky at 95 mph.

A move back to La Liga could be on the cards for the 28 year old though a lot could depend on whether he books a spot in Vicente del Bosque's 2014 World Cup finals squad with the chances of a Gunners exit increasing if he fails to get a seat on the plane.

Paulson routinely jets between various farms and homes and to racetracks around the world in his own Gulfstream IV — the same plane that he piloted to two round - the - world speed records in 1987 and» 88 — usually traveling in the company of his wife, Madeleine, and the planet's two most contrasting dogs, Frosty, a regal white poodle so intelligent that he does everything but fasten his own seat belt during takeoff, and Lido, a 14 - pound Chihuahua with Peter Lorre eyes and aspirations to be the William Perry of his species.

When the team flew back to Detroit sometime after 1 a.m., McLain was in the copilot's seat of the 727, the same seat he was sitting in when the plane landed at 7:30 a.m.