Sentences with phrase «passengers on a plane»

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

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

It's not just legroom you'll lose as carriers try to fit more passengers on their planes.

WestJet recently received approval from Ottawa to have one flight attendant for every 50 passengers on its planes, instead of the one to 40 ratio that was required previously.

it appears that the prayers of the passengers on the planes were not answered.

The bottom line is that their is a certain etiquette that should be followed by any and all passengers on a plane.

hearing you is like hearing a drunk passenger on a plane telling the pilot how to fly a plane, and its quite irritating.

«Muslim Americans were innocent passengers on those planes,» Obama said, referring to the aircraft that slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks, «including a young married couple looking forward to the birth of their first child.»

Passengers on the plane were supportive, she said, and told her they hadn't known she was breastfeeding until the flight attendant singled her out.

Parents who travel with their babies now bring goody bags to distribute to fellow passengers on the plane to pacify them in case the baby wreaks havoc during the flight.

Remember when you were a passenger on a plane and that screaming baby annoyed the heck out of you and everybody else on the flight?

Passengers on planes landing at the airport at the time looked on in horror.

Exposure to radiation (although considered minute), cramped spaces, and potential infections (from other passengers on the plane), and the stress of changing time zones (forcing your circadian hormone levels to adjust) can all add up to quite a stress, especially for frequent fliers.

Bill boards a flight to London but realizes that things go wrong when an anonymous person texts Bill and threatens to kill passengers on the plane every 20 minutes.

I found myself wishing that some of the passengers on the plane had been more fleshed out.

With perhaps the best opening scene of 2015, Wild Tales starts things off with the shortest of its tales: passengers on a plane quickly discover inconceivable connections with each other, realizing it's more than just a coincidence just before the story comes to abrupt end.

You also might habitually sit with your legs sprawled open even to the discomfort of another passenger on a plane — not even considering that you are unfairly consuming the space.

I still don't want to hear someone yacking away on their cell phone about whatever is important to them, and I don't think the other 184 passengers on the plane want to hear it, either.

I had never seen such anticipation from passengers on a plane.

Well, during summer travel season, families traveling with children can comprise half the passengers on the plane.

The last, and perhaps most obvious option, would simply be to place more passengers on each plane.

As we exited the plane, a woman came up, hugged me and said, «You are doing a great job,» despite what must have been such an annoyance for every passenger on that plane.

Not exact matches

They have these showers in the first - class suites on their A380 planes, and there's one shower for every seven passengers.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed the «tremendous bravery» of the crew and passengers aboard a damaged Southwest Airlines plane that was forced into an emergency landing in Philadelphia last month, saying, «Everybody's talking about it.»

Passengers are describing a relatively calm reaction to a cracked window on a Southwest Airlines plane that forced it to make an emergency landing in Cleveland.

Maverick airline Virgin America plans to begin selling tickets Thursday, giving travelers their first chance to book a trip on planes equipped to pamper passengers even when they aren't flying first class.

Investigators believe cracks caused a fan blade on a Southwest Airlines jet to shear off last month, starting an engine breakup that left one passenger dead after debris hit the plane.

The flight was supposed to fly from Anqing to Kunming in southwestern China on October 19, 2017, but when passengers noticed the woman tossing coins into the plane's engine, they alerted crew members onboard.

Could an electric passenger plane be on the horizon?

While it is not normally possible to make phone calls on planes, some carriers allow passengers to connect to a cabin wifi, allowing them to use internet - based functions on their handsets.

For the first time, researchers actually got on planes and carefully observed the behavior of more than 1,500 passengers.

The last time a passenger jet crashed in France was the 2000 Concorde accident, which left 113 dead — 109 in the plane and four on the ground.

Boeing is reportedly considering the conversion of used 777 passenger jets into cargo planes in order to capitalize on the boom in e-commerce-related shipments.

The engine on the Southwest Airlines plane that malfunctioned on Tuesday, killing a passenger, is «the most reliable in the world,» says former Continental CEO Bethune.

That record for avoiding fatalities — which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation — was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines (luv) plane exploded mid-air, spewing shrapnel into a window and killing a passenger.

All 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane that crashed in central Iran on Sunday were believed to have been killed, state media reported.

Passengers rarely see or consider unsanitary incidents on the plane, like accidents in the lavatory or a passenger's seat.

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.

Sunwing couldn't serve its grounded passengers hot meals because regulations prohibit operating a plane's ovens until it's airborne; ditto for the on - board entertainment system.

The Southwest flight's engine failure happened when the plane was about 31,000 feet in the air, based on passenger reports.

Photos and videos of the bloodied passenger being dragged off the plane by security quickly circulated via social media, and soon enough, the company had a PR disaster on its hands.

Passengers can still book flights on the Virgin America website and fly on its planes.

On January 24, 1963, a U.S. Air Force B - 52 plane flying low to the ground during a «Terrain Avoidance Flight» encountered turbulence and crashed, killing seven passengers.

To put that in perspective, planes optimally could fly 1,500 hours a year, with passengers on every flight.

The engine of a SkyWest passenger jet caught fire moments after the aircraft landed at Denver International Airport on Sunday, but all 63 people aboard exited the plane safely, an airline spokeswoman said.

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 Wednesday.

In an industry first, passenger suites in the middle aisle without windows will be fitted with «virtual windows» relaying the sky outside via fiber optic cameras on the plane.

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.

A passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville was forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff.

The aim of the weigh - ins, which might be more familiar to travelers who have flown on small planes, is to update nearly decade - old data on average passenger weights as it expands its route network and needs to accurately forecast payloads and how much fuel it requires.