Sentence examples for passenger airliners from inspiring English sources

Emirates already flies 15 A380s, the world's largest passenger airliners, and has ordered 75 more for delivery by 2018.

However, as terrorist acts continued to occur against passenger airliners, security measures gradually became less lax in most jurisdictions.

Its few viable projects involved passenger airliners such as the Tu-204, which went into service in 1996.

In addition to civilian passenger airliners, Tupolev produces freight aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and test aircraft for research and development projects.

Cargo pilots have long complained that the government focuses most of its efforts on protecting passenger airliners from terrorist attacks, leaving cargo planes vulnerable.

Flight controllers, according to airport records, guided the waiting passenger airliners around the stalled aircraft until it was towed away 35 minutes later.

The 747 remained the largest passenger airliner in service until the Airbus A380 began airline service in 2007.

Also impressive — and remaining — are signs like that on the early 1950s Airline Diner, above the Grand Central Parkway in Astoria, Queens, with a propeller-driven passenger airliner.

But I was shocked to hear he wanted to blow up a passenger airliner.

But none had apparently ever actually piloted a jumbo passenger airliner.

A scatter piece by the British artist Roger Hiorns, it is the atomized engine of a passenger airliner.