Sentence examples for runway for hours from inspiring English sources

I've had scary flights and been stuck on the runway for hours on planes, but nothing worse than that.

There were storms around New York on Tuesday evening, and we sat on the runway for hours.

"A Joint Staff officer recalled angrily that at one point troops sat on a runway for hours, waiting to leave the United States on a mission, while he quibbled about commas in the deployment order".

A passenger jet blew three tires while landing today at John Wayne Airport here, setting one tire ablaze briefly and leaving the jet blocking the airport's only commercial airliner runway for hours.

"There's a constant pressure mentally because you realize people's lives are at issue -- not just their safety, but their convenience when you have hundreds of people sitting on a runway for hours".

But because of lack of competition, Mr. Wyden said, the airlines feel no shame about failing to warn passengers of delays and then leaving them "sitting out on the runway for hours with a little bag of pretzels and a glass of water".

They said they would make a "reasonable effort" to feed people who were waiting on runways for hours at a time.

Remember its infamous failure to deal with a winter storm delay, when it kept thousands of passengers packed in planes sitting on socked-in runways for hours and hours?

In the last year, as regional jet service has expanded, La Guardia Airport has experienced what many fear could be the future of air travel in the country -- jets stuck on runways for hours, others circling endlessly, connections missed and other airports' schedules ruined.

His flight, originally scheduled to leave at 10 50 a.m. yesterday, was delayed for several hours before it left Florida, he said, and once the plane landed at La Guardia, it sat on the runway for several hours because another jet was blocking a gate.

Last week, I was stuck on a runway for two hours.