Sentence examples for profitable flight from inspiring English sources
Passengers are told the take-off time the day before departure.Drawing up a profitable flight schedule is hugely complex, since each new booking means recalculating everything.
In 2008, when the government finally found a solution for Alitalia, the country's loss-making airline, private investors gobbled up its profitable flight division but curled their lips at its maintenance business, so in 2009 it was sold to another group of Italian firms, with Finmeccanica taking 10%.
AirAsiaX believes that the A330neo will give the airline a second chance to establish a profitable flight schedule connecting Kuala Lumpur to London and Paris; in 2012, AirAsiaX's first attempt failed to make money because the Airbus A340 employed proved to be far too fuel inefficient.
And during boom years, they have been among their operators' most profitable flights.
United will also need to examine its extensive route structure and figure out where to pull down unprofitable or barely profitable flights.
The airport has essentially been full-up for more than a decade, which is why regional destinations have been replaced by more profitable international flights.
The danger for BA is that hacking away at its network, and pulling out of loss-making routes, could dry up traffic that uses those routes to gain access to profitable transatlantic flights.
A merger with Virgin would allow these slots to be used for more profitable long-haul flights, but preliminary talks about a deal went nowhere.
At the height of the Internet boom, airlines could get away with charging "astronomical" business-class fares, he said, but now they have to cram people in to make flights profitable.
The reason for the collapse of this once-profitable company was the flight of its customers from a brand that had become so toxic as to be untouchable.
Mr. Wilcox declined to say whether the Long Beach-Oakland flights were profitable yet, but said the company needed to sell about 65percentt of the seats to break even.
