cruising altitude

noun

: the height in the sky at which an airplane stays for most of a flight

The pilot announced that we'd reached cruising altitude.

a cruising altitude of 40,000 feet

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With a moving van posted outside Donahoe’s downtown Portland condominium building, the jet climbed to a cruising altitude of 41,000 feet, landing in San Jose, California, less than 24 hours after Donahoe’s exit was announced. —

Rob Davis, ProPublica, 4 Oct. 2024 Compared with other atmospheric elevations, ice supersaturation is relatively common at standard commercial jet cruising altitude (about 35,000 feet up). —

Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 12 Sep. 2024 Others won’t hop on a plane without applying under-eye masks at cruising altitude. —

Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024 Data from aviation tracking site FlightRadar24 showed the flight suddenly dipping and then rapidly climbing a few hundred feet, then dipping and climbing again, before finally settling back at its cruising altitude. —

Juliana Liu, CNN, 11 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for cruising altitude

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