Sentence examples for flight sat from inspiring English sources

Mr. Coleman said some planes waited four to eight hours; a Cathay Pacific flight sat on the tarmac for 11 hours.

In 1999, Airlines also promised not to strand passengers on tarmacs after a Northwest Airlines flight sat for hours in Detroit that January, but then the industry backslid.

But instead of leaving on time, the flight sat at the airport in California for another hour, this time because of an "unknown and unexplained mechanical check failure," he said.

Some of the 300 passengers fell ill from the heat as the London-to-Newark Virgin Atlantic flight sat for four hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday on the tarmac at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, and at least one had to be given oxygen, said David Cooper, a London resident.

"About two weeks before the tournament started I got on my commercial flight, sat in the middle seat and found myself sitting next to a kind, older woman and we got to talking, and she started to ask me what I did.

Ian Shakil, who works for a biomedical company in California, said that he and other passengers on a United flight sat on a parked plane for three hours Sunday before it left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "That was frustrating, but I should add that the cabin staff were very conscientious" about keeping passengers informed about the delay, and making sure snacks and water were available, he told me.

What gets the most prominent display is how a flight sits in your day.

As Angels Flight sits dormant, an adjacent 153-step stairway has served as the only direct pedestrian connection linking Bunker Hill's high-rise apartments and offices with the tacos, pastrami and lattes at Grand Central Market.

In July 2009, 161 flights sat on tarmacs for more than three hours; this past July, only the Continental flight did so.

After the panel discussion, Colón and Jacobson rode an escalator up a couple of flights, sat at a table, and discussed what comes next.

Katmandu's airport had been so overloaded by aid and passenger planes that incoming flights sat for hours on the runway.