Sentence examples for a majority of flights from inspiring English sources

But they are on only some 2% of flights today, and a majority of flights won't have marshals for years to come, if ever.

The loss of satellite communications and GPS had already seen a majority of flights cancelled, but it was a more mundane failure that proved to be the final straw: the weather.

With a majority of our flights reaching the altitudes of 38 42 km and the requirement of long float durations, a prior knowledge of wind pattern during the summer and winter turnaround seasons is highly desirable.

But the airline said it planned to cancel only about a quarter of its scheduled flights during the period and expected a majority of its flight attendants to ignore the call to strike.

The carrier said it operated "a large majority" of flights on Saturday, without giving numbers.

To be sure, an overwhelming majority of flights in Nigeria, as anywhere else, begin and end without noticeable incident, even if pilots seem to announce incorrect destinations regularly.

With hundreds of flights canceled and some airlines urging people to stay home, anyone venturing to La Guardia Airport yesterday would have found a surprising thing: While fears of a paralyzing blizzard prompted airlines to cancel a majority of La Guardia's flights yesterday, the storm's tardy arrival allowed the airport's crew to keep runways clear.

A majority of their training flights will continue to be in airspace over the Scampton area.

A majority of Continental's 9,000 flight attendants voted against the concessions agreement, Joe Tiberi, a spokesman for the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers said in an interview.

"With the majority of flights taken by a small number of frequent flyers, it's time the government taxed those who are contributing most to the air pollution and carbon problems that aviation exacerbates".

A majority of migrating birds show nocturnal flight behavior when flying toward and back from their wintering and breeding grounds (Christensen et al. 2004; Hill et al. 2014; Hüppop et al. 2012).