Sentences with phrase «plane flights gave»

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She said once they were all seated on the plane, they were told that four more people needed to give up their seats for stand - by United employees that needed to be in Louisville by Monday to catch a different flight.

In addition, the Southwest rep mentioned the company's flight crew strived to give the family seats together on the plane.

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.

A week before the first flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, the New York Times urged a rival plane - builder to give up such wasteful experiments.

Is giving Benadryl for a plane flight really «drugging» your child as some people suggest?

We noticed that one of the armrests in front of the infant cot on the flight from London to Toronto (767 plane), wasn't moveable at all (gave me a little relief!)»

First of all, given the age of your middle child, I would consider bringing a car seat for that child on the plane because 2 1/2 is a difficult age to control and keep still on a long flight.

The unique body of this remote control plane make it durable and very responsive and gives it a long flight range.

In such scenarios, the Navy has been forced to give up flight hours or highly complex maintenance checks on ships and planes.

It is now clear that Inmarsat believed other details hidden in the pinged signal gave away the plane's flight path — and its probable crash point — rather than merely its distance either side of the geostationary satellite.

Sleep deprivation also accounts for Charles A. Lindbergh's sensed presence during his transatlantic flight to Paris: «The fuselage behind me becomes filled with ghostly presences — vaguely outlined forms, transparent, moving, riding weightless with me in the plane... conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.»

Offsetting your flights is a good place to start, since plane travel is a major emitter but one that most of us can't realistically give up altogether.

Located just outside the city, the Yankee Air Museum gives visitors a chance to experience history by taking a flight in a 70 - year - old bomber plane.

Shortly before the flight, the chief flight attendant is giving Whip the business for not going to church; as he lays in the hospital recovering, his pilot's union rep (Bruce Greenwood) tells him, «the way you landed that plane was nothing short of a miracle.»

Given our plane had by this stage lost one engine and started losing fuel, perhaps we may have been best to abort the flight before take - off, but before I knew it we were off on our «mystery flight» journey toward a final destination known to all.

The film gives us a good look at that fateful Flight 1549: Sully and first officer Jeff Skiles (an even more fully mustachioed Aaron Eckhart) making small talk in the cockpit, the plane's engines being struck by a flock of birds, passengers being told to brace for impact by visibly shaken flight attenFlight 1549: Sully and first officer Jeff Skiles (an even more fully mustachioed Aaron Eckhart) making small talk in the cockpit, the plane's engines being struck by a flock of birds, passengers being told to brace for impact by visibly shaken flight attenflight attendants.

The rule prohibits U.S. airlines operating aircraft with 30 or more passenger seats from allowing their domestic flights to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours at U.S. airports without giving passengers an opportunity to leave the plane.

Airlines may not allow tarmac delays longer than four hours on international flights at U.S. airports without giving passengers an opportunity to leave the plane.

A bookseller gave me a copy of this novel when I was on tour last week, and since I could not fit one more thing in my over-stuffed bag, I carried it onto the plane and started reading it on my flight.

If you're flying this holiday season and see a flight attendant doing a great job, consider giving a monetary reward on your way off the plane.

Best Friends is giving away a trip for two to Las Vegas — airfare, two nights at the Bellagio, a private - plane flight over the Grand Canyon, tickets to a Cirque du Soleil show and a visit to the sanctuary, the home of DogTown.

Knowing that the recirculated air in planes may facilitate the spread of viruses in an enclosed space, give your immune system a boost before your flight.

The net result of this is that you can go to a given airline's website and be offered award flights on their partners» planes — and if you're not paying attention this fact may pass you by.

So, with a flight to North Cyprus, you could go from plane steps to poolside in well under 60 minutes, giving you more time to enjoy this fascinating city.

But usually when this happens, the airline will offer compensation to anyone who volunteers to give up their seat on the plane, in exchange for a later flight.

Putting them on you gives more space in your suitcase and keep you comfortable during the flight (air - condition on board of a plane).

Given that US airlines generally board planes about an hour before departure, I assumed my flight was destined to be delayed.

Please inform us about your arrival time by giving us your flight details (if you get to pisa by plane) or call us about 60 minutes before your expected arrival time then we can personally welcome you.

Air Canada gave out travel cards on the plane to all passengers (part of the fare already)-- and they were used by all other passengers — both Canadian citizens and foreign nationals (there were Chinese nationals on my flight).

This is unlike how carbon emissions from a flight are calculated, even those these too are a bit of an abstraction: Certain assumptions are made regarding the planes used on a given route, by particular airlines, how full the plane is (generally about 75 %), et cetera, to come up with the emissions for a route that are a good representation of the flight.

Amazon's sending its own fleet of Boeing 767 - 300 cargo planes into flight, giving it more complete control over shipping and delivery.

Essentially, they need to handle pre and post flight inspections and give the go - ahead so that a plane can fly.