For example, at Newark International Airport, Continental Airlines has shifted flights frequented mostly by holiday travelers to off-peak times to relieve congestion during the busy morning and afternoon hours, when business travelers most want to fly.
She said that under the plan the average flight delay would decrease by only three minutes, while shifting flights over parklands, sanctuaries and drinking water supplies — and her neighborhood.
Even the most draconian proposal — to reinstate flight limits to ease the bottlenecks at Kennedy — might backfire, industry analysts say, because airlines would end up shifting flights to Newark Airport, which is already strained.
Add to this that airlines are shifting flights from Las Vegas to other destinations on the ground that they make more money on business travellers who pay full fares than on tourists who book in advance and the outlook is bleak.The origins of the building binge lie in the mid-1990s, when credit was easy and the economy booming.
The passenger's baggage cart inside the bin had shifted during flight and came down on Ms. Williamson's head.
Things will have moved and shifted during flight.
NEW YORK -- The old "contents may have shifted during flight" warning seemed especially worrying for "One Man, Two Guvnors," the London smash from the National Theatre of Great Britain that opened last week on Broadway.
And in the new accompanying Untucked episode (which lives on YouTube this season), we follow the girls as they untuck and dish backstage, and it looks like some baggage may have shifted during flight.
Passengers think of airline seats mostly in terms of space and comfort (most often noticing the absence of both) but the news that American Airlines has grounded eight of the Boeing 757s in its fleet after some seats shifted in flight is all about safety.
This year the two airlines shifted some flights out of peak periods and canceled others, and O'Hare ran more smoothly for a while, but then other carriers added flights and the system bogged down again.
