There are a number of airlines where the entire business model is driven by reducing the amount of time the plane spends on the ground.
The average wait from when a plane landed to when the last passenger cleared immigration, not counting walking time from the plane to the immigration hall, was 23 minutes, even with only 11 booths manned, according to CBP figures.
And they were so appreciative that I would lend my time and my plane to help them.
In the spring Herrick plans to fly in a decompression chamber so that divers can spend more time clearing the plane free from the bottom's anchoring debris.
In addition, brain rest is recommended following a concussion, so reading, watching movies and playing video games -- things you might normally do to pass the time on a plane -- may make things worse.
The district judge was told there were 228 passengers and crew on board at the time, as the plane descended into Newcastle.
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"We wanted the element of surprise so they wouldn't have time to harm the plane, but that made our arrival very tense, " he said.
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Each time I boarded the plane to New York City for meetings, I would subconsciously tone down the southern twang, walk a bit faster and wear more black.
By the time de Havilland redesigned the plane, Boeing and Douglas Aircraft had overtaken it.
You can see it every time you step off a plane or a train and meander to a busy taxi rank.
Remember how badly you wanted to get off the plane the last time someone in the next seat downloaded way too much information.
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Former Air Force meteorologist Tim Vasquez wrote about thunderstorms over the Atlantic at the time of the Air France plane's disappearance on his Web site, weathergraphics.com.
"The two flight attendants who spent the most time with him on the plane were interviewed separately the same night in separate cities and gave nearly identical descriptions, " said Carr.
Unusually, the plane arrived on time.
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Early this morning at Moffet Air Field in Mountain View, California, Solar Impulse finally took off on the first leg of its barnstorming tour across the US. Of course, this isn't the first time the sun-powered plane and its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, have flown long distance, but it is the first time it's taken wing through American airspace.
The plane's grounding on Jan. 16, an enormous black eye for Boeing, marked the first time since 1979 that FAA had ordered every plane of a particular type to stay out of the air for safety reasons.
He thought at the time it was strange that a plane should be flying that low.
Airlines say they police their cleaning crews and often require two people to work a plane at the same time.
Delta takes the time to organize us on the plane as we try and find a place for our carry-on.
After contacting his relatives in Yaroslavl, the reporter alerted the authorities, and this week Vladimir Yepishin found himself on a plane for the first time in his life, flying to Moscow.
He almost killed his parents the first time he took them up in his plane.
For most, it will be their first time outside Afghanistan, or on a plane.
In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
Instead, the armed police who brought the diamonds to the airport were gone by the time the robbers drove up to the plane.
Hashi's British citizenship was stripped from him just a short time before he was put on a plane to the United States, Batchelder said.
First time they had ever been on a plane was actually to fly to the competition that they ended up doing so well on.
If all works as planned, the software could shave a year off the time it takes Boeing to bring the plane to market, scheduled for 2008.
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