Sentence examples for airlines off from inspiring English sources

The few losing sectors would include airlines, off 0.5percenttelecomcom services and telephones, off 0.9percentto1.4percentcent; and photography, down 6percentt.

To the Editor: In "The Heavy Bag Takes Hits, Then Slims Down" (Practical Traveler, June 18), Charles Passy lets the airlines off too easily.

Then again, his airline does benefit from other aviation policies restricting choice in the Canadian market, such as those that keep foreign airlines off domestic routes and that have limited the expansion of carriers like Emirates.

Already, the violations of these Open Skies agreements are starting to push U.S. airlines off of certain international routes, which jeopardize good-paying U.S. jobs and our economy.

But getting an airline off the ground has become a lot more treacherous.

That has allowed Mr Mallya to get the airline off the ground more quickly and at far less cost than if he had done it alone a crucial advantage in what, following recent deregulation, has become a highly competitive domestic civil-aviation market.

Conrad Hughes Hilton III, the great-grandson of the founder of the Hilton hotel chain's founder, is facing a potential lengthy prison sentence after going "berserk" on a British Airways flight from London, threatening the cabin crew, taunting them that his father would pay the airline off and calling his fellow passengers "f***ing peasants".

They set aside $20 million in accumulated profits to get the airline off the ground.

Johnson had pledged to pony up about $140 million to get the airline off the ground, and American Airlines promised about $82 million for a 49% stake.

Aeroflot reabsorbed regional airlines spun off in the 1990s.

Airlines laid off more than 100,000 workers in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.