Sentence examples for passengers from inspiring English sources
The word 'passengers' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to people who have been transported by a vehicle, especially a public means of transport, such as a bus, train, or airplane. For example, "The passengers on the train were relieved to arrive at their destination."
Scheduled to make the 1,492km 9277 miles) journey every day except Christmas Day, the A320 plane has seen passengers delayed for as little as two minutes and as long as 12 hours and 18 minutes.
"Tickets are valid on all other routes into London and Southern passengers are advised to avoid travelling through Clapham Junction, which is very busy.
On average passengers are now paying £600 more for a season ticket and yet seeing no change in their pay packets".
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "It is extremely disappointing that Network Rail's engineering works have overrun and will affect travellers during this festive season, passengers will be rightly annoyed.
"This was essential work but passengers need to be able to plan and rely on Network Rail meeting its deadlines for having the network back in service.
He added that the airline regretted any inconvenience to passengers.
But passengers could only claim compensation for 59 of the journeys, because of the 30-minute rule.
Passengers affected by rail delays are now able to receive cash compensation instead of vouchers, in a major change to policy by operators.
Network Rail has warned that meaningful cuts in its budget can only come at the expense of a smaller railway that will have to carry fewer passengers than the 1.3bn journeys it managed in 2009.
A Whitehall source told the Post the government is about to announce the GBP150m tram scheme, which would see 22 trams running on one line from Liverpool to Kirkby, each carrying 200 passengers.
BAA's January figures seem healthy enough, handling a record 5.2 million passengers – up 2.3% on the same period last year.
