Sentences with phrase «people on some of their flights»

One of the best parts of Korean Air is that they actually release enough first class award space for several people on some of their flights.

Not exact matches

A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens of others to prepare for an untimely death.

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

The fight started on a United Airlines flight because one passenger was using the Knee Defender, a $ 21.95 gadget that attaches to a passenger's tray table and prevents the person in front of them from reclining.

«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).

Many of these people are on the clock during flights, which can add up fast.

Four years ago, the Boeing 777 disappeared on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, and was tracked to this lonely patch of ocean.

So you can always try to get on Flight of Passage during extra magic hour when there are fewer people in the park.

Aside from the Marshall Space Flight Center, which employs around 6,000 people and has an annual budget of $ 2.5 billion, Hunstville is also home to the Redstone Arsental, a major army base that has offices for more than 60 federal agencies on its «campus.»

Airlines across North America are posting record «load factors» — the percentage of seats filled on their flights — and are exploring ingenious ways to squeeze even more people on board.

The last death resulting from an emergency on a commercial flight was slightly more recent — in December 2013, one of the nine people on a Makani Kai Air commuter flight died following a crash.

At least five people died when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard weather reconnaissance plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia during a training flight, sending up thick clouds of black smoke, according to officials and television images.

plenty of people pray or meditate quietly on flights.

I bet you if a bunch of people start praying in Spanish on a flight originating from Arizona, they would treat this as a terror case and deport these people quickly.

A * LOT * of people speak in languages other than the language native to an area, especially on flights to Los Angeles.

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

On his return flight from South Korea on Monday, the Pope spoke movingly of meeting with the families of last April's ferry disaster, which killed about 300 people, many of whom were young studentOn his return flight from South Korea on Monday, the Pope spoke movingly of meeting with the families of last April's ferry disaster, which killed about 300 people, many of whom were young studenton Monday, the Pope spoke movingly of meeting with the families of last April's ferry disaster, which killed about 300 people, many of whom were young students.

The flight to Egypt by the holy family to avoid death leans on the story of the flight to Egypt by the people of Israel to avoid death by famine.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAOn 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAon board and 11 on the ground by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAon the ground by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!

While flights leaving the country on a Monday won't quite match the culinary standards of Sweden's Malmö Aviation — the first airline in the world to join the MFM campaign — at least the choice has improved for the growing number of people who are eating less meat.

Yesterday evening, my husband and I had quite a scare as out littlest one tumbled down our steep flight of city steps (hard hard wood that's not the most gentle on teeny tiny noggins), thankfully only leaving a few loose teeth, a bunch of bruises and a little blood, but it left every single person in our house shaken up.

Some of the people on that flight may have needed sleep.

While many people aren't thrilled about having a baby near them in flight, public awareness is imperative in a way that people should truly understand the importance of lactating pods, and how easy it is to support moms on their breastfeeding journey.

My son flew to Boston with his mom on United Airlines yesterday, stop over in Houston, upon boarding for 2nd wing of flight, they sold his seat to a standby person.

As people are always willing to switch out of the middle for the aisle or window seat, my husband and I would still end up next to each other on full flights.

But he remains alive, to the anger of the families of the 270 people who died on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988.

«Honestly, with urgent threats to flight safety, including the Senate bill approved today that strips pilot training requirements, and the legislation that is on the verge of taking health coverage away from people who desperately need it we have much bigger concerns than the President's outrageous tweets,» his spokesperson Theresa Kennedy said.

The crash revived calls for helicopter tours to be restricted over Manhattan and raised questions about the safety of amateurs being allowed on so - called photo flights, in which people are strapped in to helicopters with their doors off and given only knives to escape in an emergency.

Jailing the 13 - strong gang of baggage handlers, mules and dealers today for a total of 139 years Judge Michael Hopmeier said: «Millions of people use Heathrow each year and depend on the honesty and integrity of baggage handlers to do their job properly, but it is not simply a question of confidence in flight so far as a passenger getting his bag on arrival, but there is a security concern also, particularly in the times we live in.

An unknown number of non-American legal residents who were trying to re-enter the country with valid visas — including students, visitors, and people with green cards — were either detained at U.S. airports or not allowed to get on their flights to the United States, the media outlet reports.

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

No - one who proposes this ever mentions how they plan to maintain flights from or to UK airports without an agreement on Open Skies, or transport nuclear materials without an agreement on Euratom, or get goods into and out of Britain without customs infrastructure in place on the Channel, or allow people to leave and enter the UK without an immigration system designed for them.

A return flight to Europe produces between 250 kgs and 500 kgs of CO2 (depending on distance and age / type of aircraft) per person.

Oral Questions - Ensuring wage - earners who are below the income tax threshold will benefit from any future increases in the personal allowance - Lord Greaves; Measures to detect and prevent sudden cardiac death - Lord Storey; Number of people employed by the EU Institutions and information on the number of those who pay either no tax, or reduced tax rates, on their remuneration - Lord Flight

Cuomo decided at the last minute to put in a quick appearance on the final morning of the conference, forcing a number of people to change their flights (and then to get caught in some very bad weather, as I recall).

On Monday, 14th District Councilman Fernando Cabrera, his daughter and about a dozen other people from the Bronx chapter of the Latin and African - American Chaplain's Association (LACA) boarded a JetBlue flight to the Dominican Republic, carrying big bags and suitcases full of emergency supplies: antibiotics, bandages, baby food and more.

He has gotten money to build new schools; passed legislation allowing day care workers to unionize and protecting livery car drivers from violent crimes; and created a scholarship fund for the children of people killed on American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001 on its way to Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital.

That mission turned out not to be ready in time, but a lot of people wanted to continue with solar sailing, as did I, but I didn't want to spend time on it unless I had a flight opportunity.

«The confluence of climate and people in these areas increases the risk of widespread fire activity when the fire season severity is elevated,» said Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who works with Randerson and colleagues on the forecast.

Data from the sensors have also highlighted that even a single flight of stairs is a powerful psychological barrier: People who work on different floors of a building almost never talk to each other, even if doing so would mean a walk of less than a minute.

Virgin Atlantic paid Barbara Hewson from Wales the equivalent of US$ 24,100 in 2002 as compensation after she was squashed by an obese person sitting next to her on a transatlantic flight.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

There were only three people on the final leg of the flight — Thomas, me, and Elisabeth Rosenthal from The New York Times.

Working with neurobiology and behavior graduate student Aurora LePort, Patihis asked 20 people with superior memory and 38 people with average memory to do word association exercises, recall details of photographs depicting a crime, and discuss their recollections of video footage of the United Flight 93 crash on 9/11.

By Marie - Louise Gumuchian and Anthony Deutsch LONDON / AMSTERDAM (Reuters)- Hurricane strength winds battered northern Europe on Monday, killing more than a dozen people, cutting power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train journeys.

The ill person did not exhibit symptoms of Ebola during the flights from West Africa and CDC does not recommend that people on the same commercial airline flights undergo monitoring, as Ebola is only contagious if the person is experiencing active symptoms.

Between 1982 and 2000, these accidents accounted for the deaths of 819 people on American flights.

«Our standard paradigm [in the test and evaluation world] is we have a vehicle in the air and people on the ground and there's a telemetry stream of data coming down so people can monitor the vehicle,» explains researcher Charles H. Jones of the Edwards Flight Test Center.

As part of their tests, groups of four people were sent on four separate Ryanair flights.