Sentences with phrase «on jet flights»

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

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Evidently, Webster experienced an acute case of a longstanding issue: overheating of the control box that powers the live television available on all Jet Blue flights.

On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines said it was expanding its booking platform for its private - jet arm, Delta Private Jets, to allow travelers to book so - called empty - leg flights, when a plane is repositioned to a destination where a customer has already booked a flight.

A lounge announcement encouraged passengers on my flight to head to our nearby gate, where we calmly walked across the jet bridge like the royalty of one of America's lowest - rated airports.

Isaacman developed an affinity for aircraft early on and trained to be a jet pilot, an acrobatic flyer and certified flight instructor.

The flights reportedly cost more than usual due to the fact that she flew on jets located at the Joint Base Andrews, which sometimes required the crew to fly without passengers to pick up the First Lady or return to the base.

Long - range midsized jets allow for more efficient non-stop flights, and less reliance on the hub - and - spoke system, which passengers loathe.

Some major customers of Boeing's popular 737 jets said they were inspecting engines of the type that blew apart mid-air on a fatal Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday.

For the past five weeks, a U.S. jury that includes teachers and retirees has heard all about the luxe life these men lived that included suppers featuring tango dancing, flights on private jets to exclusive resorts like Mauritius, stays at five - star hotels and a clandestine night meeting at a lavish farm at an Uruguayan resort.

I've heard from other colleagues that their flights were also enjoyable and read from other users that they had minimal jet lag after flying on a similar aircraft.

Jet Blue recently announced a cost - cap of $ 99 on flights out of Florida ahead of hurricane Irma.

A C919 passenger jet takes off from Pudong International Airport for its maiden flight, on May 5, 2017 in Shanghai, China.

Britain on Wednesday scrambled RAF Typhoon fighter jets to escort a Ryanair flight from Lithuania after a hoax security alert.

Today a handful of seaside resorts offer joyrides on a water - propelled jet pack tethered to a fire hose, and Dallas - based Rocketman stages demonstration flights.

And on Memorial Day weekend last month the company offered a separate flight program called UberAIR from Boston to Nantucket — but it wasn't on - demand service like that which Uber is known for, as passengers couldn't book a ride on a specific jet.

Singapore Airlines Flight 26, a 325 - passenger jet flying fromFrankfurt, Germany, was an unusual sight at Stewart International when it landed there at around 1 p.m. on Thursday.

Lily has 20 minutes of flight time and will follow you down the slopes, out on the water on your jet ski or even on a run around the block.

The Corporate Angel Network, which gets cancer patients free flights on corporate jets, recently flew its 45,000 th passenger.

Jet lag is a problem for any business traveler, but it's especially pernicious on longer flights, which are multiplying quickly.

The prototype of what is believed to be the China's second stealth fighter jet performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, when it took off at 10:32 AM Local Time from the runway of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility.

Travelers accustomed to riding in a full - size jet instead find themselves on planes with tighter seating, lower ceilings and fewer amenities for flights as long as four hours.

Off topic = Benzemas alleged flight in a jet is believed to be an old picture and I belive it is becouse if you look at the photo you can see his phone on the side console you will see his iPhone it's iPhone 5 a player with his dosh would have iPhone 6

Last Friday, Halloran, who arranges fights for the new Mirage casino - hotel in Las Vegas, went to Columbus, and promised Douglas a flight in Mirage owner Steve Wynn's jet on Sunday.

If a 14 minute flight to Norwich would cause a jet lag, Sanchez, Ospina and Campbell will be on life support after the international break!

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!)

Depending on the timing of the flight this also seemed to help our kids get over jet lag more quickly.

For me, it's really a question of priorities — one of the speakers on that NPR show earlier today mentioned, for example, that current F - 22 pilots are getting about 1/3 of the flight training hours that American pilots have normally gotten per month since the start of the jet age.

The lawyer said nothing about charges that Grant took bribes and had sex with a prostitute during a free flight to the Super Bowl on a private jet.

Menendez is charged with trading his political influence for bribes in the form of luxury hotel stays and flights on a private jet provided by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a longtime friend.

Andrea Peyser seizes on former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's recent rejection from a Jet Blue flight to explain why so - called «air rage» is out of control.

Since Revelution US has done anything it can against Iran (Even Iran Air Flight 655 which was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988).

You may recall that more than a decade ago, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland came to grief and went off to prison the first time for exchanging favors for charter jet flights and going with a group on a Las Vegas junket, some of whose members had a reported rendezvous with Las Vegas prostitutes.

Mr. Trump has already raised eyebrows among party donors by spending freely to hold campaign events at properties he owns, and for the cost of flights on his private jet.

U.S. Hecretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price took private jets on at least five separate flights last week in a stark departure from his predecessors under the Obama administration.

Several high - ranking NYPD officers have been indicted on charges of accepting gifts from two businessmen who also happened to later become donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio — gifts including Christmas presents hand - delivered by the men while they were dressed as elves, and a private jet ride to Las Vegas that included an in - flight prostitute who went by the name Candi.

Meringolo also suggested that one - time NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly took flights on a private jet, but was never charged with any crime.

The various flights of fancy regarding ambergris were perhaps further inspired by the seemingly miraculous transformation of the material from this fresh state — fecal, soft, dense, and jet black on the outside and dark brown inside — to the aged white, porous, and faintly sweet - smelling chunks.

Then last summer, Aaron Parness and Christine Fuller, of the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Hao Jiang of Stanford took the full gripper hand, which includes several patches of gripping material in a specific arrangement, on a microgravity flight in NASA's Weightless Wonder aircraft.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

Arnold Barnett of MIT, one of the world's top authorities on aviation safety, calculates the odds of dying on a U.S. domestic jet flight at 1 in 30 million.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

With reference to Thomas Smith's letter pondering the impact of jet lag on mental functioning (18 February, p 33), I first encountered problems on a 16 - hour business flight to Japan in 1974.

Then I'll catch an hour of sleep before boarding a 2 a.m. flight on a military cargo jet back to New Zealand — December 21, last flight before Christmas.

You wouldn't fly on a commercial jet plane unless you were confident that the pilot had logged some serious time in a flight simulator, preparing for every eventuality.

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

In one landmark 1971 test Joseph Hafele of Washington University in Saint Louis and Richard Keating of the U.S. Naval Observatory flew cesium atomic clocks around the world on commercial jet flights, then compared the clocks with reference clocks on the ground to find that they had diverged, as predicted by relativity.

Other historical gems in the aviation hangar include a 1976 Concorde supersonic airliner donated by Air France after its last flight on June 12, 2003; a 1967 Lockheed SR - 71A Blackbird reconnaissance jet capable of Mach 3.3; and a 1938 Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first passenger plane with a pressurized cabin.

Although 100,000 flights were cancelled earlier this year following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, little is known about the effects of ash on jet engines.

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increasjet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increasJet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

The passengers on board a 1982 British Airways flight from London to Auckland, New Zealand, know that volcanic ash and jet engines are a dangerous mix.