Sentence examples for pilot to replace from inspiring English sources

Under previous contracts, if a pilot called in sick, the airline had to bring in a reserve pilot to replace the ill pilot, even if there were pilots on hand at the airport waiting for flights that were hours away.

Though the first pilot to replace the MetroCard began in 2006, when Peter Kalikow and Katherine Lapp led the authority, the idea became something of a pet cause for Mr. Walder.

Mr Mathes also claims that the Coast Guard has relaxed safety rules to allow barge companies to hire unqualified pilots to replace strikers; and that, as a result, more accidents are happening.

The company says it's on pace to book more than $3 million in revenue for 2015, as well as launching major pilots to replace contactless payments and other NFC-based technologies.

Also in mid-2011, the airline issued iPads to its pilots to replace 25 pounds of paper flight manuals that pilots are currently required to carry on flights.

Bayside is one of two New York City public schools in a pilot program to replace water-wasting toilets with new low-flow flushers.

Trinity Mirror's consortium is one of three bidding for about £7m of public money to run the pilot scheme to replace ITV's regional news in the Tyne Tees and Border region.

Councilman Bill de Blasio joined students and parents today at Public School 154 in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, to announce a privately financed pilot project to replace foam lunch trays with an environmentally friendly model made of bagasse, the fiber left after the extraction of the sugar-bearing juice from sugar cane.

Though the White House press secretary has insisted that "the executive office of the president is not participating in a pilot programme" to replace Obama's BlackBerry, it might only be a matter of time – though if Hillary Clinton succeeds him, her well-known affinity for it could extend its survival just a little longer.

That year MacDonald's launched a pilot program to replace the polystyrene cups with double-walled fiber hot cups.

Another, which is now being piloted, is to replace the SATs for 11-year-olds with "single-level tests" modelled on music exams, for which teachers can enter pupils twice a year at the level they judge appropriate.