Sentence examples for boarding of passengers from inspiring English sources

The carrier has also looked for ways to speed up the boarding of passengers, a process that takes longer now as people carry more bags aboard.

Also, the DC-4 had a tricycle landing gear (unlike the Stratoliner's conventional tail wheel), which facilitated boarding of passengers, improved the pilots' view of the runway and surrounding airport environment, and enhanced the plane's takeoff characteristics.

The issues are similar in Washington Union Station, where due to the amount of everyday passenger flow, a systematic boarding of passengers through the designated gates area(s) is required for safety reasons and to avoid overcrowded conditions on the platforms.

One could think of physical barriers to regulate and mediate the boarding of passengers.

"The Department of Transportation (USDOT) remains committed to protecting the rights of consumers and is reviewing the involuntary denied boarding of passenger(s) from United Express flight 3411 to determine whether the airline complied with the oversales rule," the Department of Transportation statement reads.

The study tracks four areas: customer complaints, baggage handling, punctuality and "involuntary denied boarding"—the number of passengers airlines bump from flights.

Paul Salveson is a board member of Passenger Focus and visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield's department of transport and logistics.

"The weight of luggage already on board and that of passengers and their relatives who got onboard suddenly, and without authority, could have exceeded the capacity of the vessel, causing it to sink fast," he added.

As anyone who has ever flown knows, the longstanding policy of boarding passengers starting at the rear of the plane makes limited sense.

The Enhanced Homeland Security Act: Madame Cleo will be appointed head of airport security; she will train a cadre of psychics to scan the minds of boarding passengers, looking for terrorists.

The problem of dwelling time for a vehicle in a station has already been described: higher boarding and alighting flows lengthen dwelling time, thereby increasing cycle time, reducing service frequency and in turn increasing the flow of passengers boarding and alighting per vehicle.