Sentence examples for transatlantic service from inspiring English sources

Germany's Lufthansa offers a transatlantic service called Business Jet.

The Great Western, a wooden paddle vessel, was the first steamship to provide regular transatlantic service.

Swissair resumed regular flights in 1946 and by 1949 had begun transatlantic service between Switzerland and New York City.

The division of the Air Ministry which manages this transatlantic service is known as Atfero, which stands for Atlantic Ferry.

From 1850 to 1854 Collins's paddle-wheel steamers, the "Atlantic," "Pacific," "Arctic," and "Baltic," were the fastest and most luxurious ships in the transatlantic service.

By the summer of 1937 Pan American began transpacific and transatlantic service with the first four-engined S-42 "Clipper," the last of the Sikorsky series, the ancestor of which had been "Le Grand" of 1913.

Incumbent operators claim "grandfather rights" over 97% of all slots, and most of those left are at times unsuitable for transatlantic services.

A spokesman for Heathrow airport said transatlantic services suffered delays of 10 to 15 minutes to allow time to fly around the ash cloud.

Some airlines such as Silverjet and MAXjet already offer good fares on transatlantic services from London; the open-skies deal makes it easier for them to extend their services to other business hubs.

Gatwick lost more than half its connecting traffic in the decade from 2000, as a result of British Airways abandoning its dual-hub model, and the shift of transatlantic services to Heathrow.

Its airport at Ringway, 10 miles (16 km) south of the city, is the leading British terminal outside London in the volume of international traffic handled and in the diversity of both its European and its transatlantic services.