Sentence examples for more efficient plane from inspiring English sources

The European manufacturer's bigger, more efficient plane promised to out-jumbo the jumbo, extending the distinctive bump of the 747's prow along the fuselage into a full double-decker.

During his campaign, Trump insisted on using both his own private jetliner for travel and his own office tower as headquarters – even though he could have saved his donors millions had he rented space in a less expensive building and chartered a more efficient plane.

He thought a high oil price might help by encouraging investment – airlines would order more efficient planes, for instance.

Further down the economic chain, airlines can afford to delay investment in more efficient planes when fuel is cheap.

It is true that over the last couple of decades planes have become slightly more fuel efficient, but any positive impact from more efficient planes has been wiped out by the massive increase in flights.

"The number of raids is growing and the strikes are more precise after the Syrian air force received arms and more efficient planes from Moscow," said the observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman.

But with heavy pressure on the companies' bottom lines, the advent of more efficient planes and a period of low oil prices, the airlines — with a few exceptions — have been slow to adopt the novel and more expensive fuels.

The number of flights may well be able to increase in future, if emissions are offset by more efficient planes and air traffic control systems and are part of a national carbon budget.

In a panel discussion in Chicago on Monday, Billy Glover, Boeing's vice president for environment in its commercial airplane sector, said the company hoped to stabilize its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by using more efficient planes and more biofuels, while still allowing air travel to grow.

Boeing said yesterday that it believed that it was making a smarter gamble than Airbus by betting that the increasing popularity of point-to-point service would mean that airlines would want smaller, more efficient planes rather than large ones built for big hub transfers.

One is high fuel prices, which spur airline demand for more efficient planes.