The phrase "alter flight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to aviation, travel, or any situation where a change in a planned course or schedule is necessary.
Example: "Due to the weather conditions, we had to alter flight plans to ensure passenger safety."
Alternatives: "change flight" or "modify flight".
Before the mishap Friday, there had been just six incidents on record involving Japanese airlines that caused a 787 Dreamliner to alter flight plans, according to the ministry.
One way to reduce the impact of contrails is to alter flight paths so that aircraft avoid very cold or wet regions of the atmosphere where they typically form, or fly at altitudes where they are less likely to emerge.
Many applicants had been forced to pay extra fees to speed up the passport process while others had to pay charges to alter flight bookings, or even miss their holidays altogether.
The authors suggest that new thermal power plants should be built more than 20 kilometers from airports, and air traffic controllers should alter flight paths to avoid existing ones.
Airlines flying over the poles for instance, where the magnetosphere is weaker, have specific thresholds for solar activity and may choose to alter flight paths to avoid exposing their passengers and crew to a dangerous dose of radiation.
What's more, researchers don't even have a good grasp on how aerodynamic principles change on such small scales, so they can't precisely predict how delicate wing movements will alter flight.
Birds altering flight patterns.
Some airlines have altered flight times to avoid arrivals at night.
It was an excursion he tried to conceal by altering flight log books, a prosecution witness said yesterday, and at first failed to mention to detectives.
The FAA does not much like altering flight plans based on a hoax.
Stronger mutant combinations are larval lethal while adult viable combinations exhibit defective wing posture with reduced flight ability and altered flight physiology [4], [5].
