Sentences with phrase «transatlantic airliner»

On a moonless night in early March, two tight - lipped travelers climbed almost furtively aboard a transatlantic airliner at New York's International Airport bound for a secret rendezvous in Scotland.

The conviction of three terrorists for a plot to destroy transatlantic airliners has prompted a wave of relief from government ministers, past and present.

Not exact matches

This technology could make supersonic airliners commercially viable: The Concorde flew only transatlantic routes because of the noise.

And in 2016, Dr Williams made a similar study to predict that airliners on transatlantic routes could spend an extra 2,000 hours in the air every year because of climate change.

During a transatlantic flight, an airliner typically is assigned a fairly limited track of airspace to follow to its destination.