Definition of airliner
: an airplane operated by an airline
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The idea comes at a time when other airliners are offering more comfortable accommodations for passengers on long-haul flights.
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Perrotta also signed off on new procedures that let Pruitt fly first-class on commercial airliners, with the security chief typically sitting next to him with other security staff farther back in the plane.
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Boeing projects that China will have a fleet of 8,150 of the world’s nearly 47,000 airliners by 2036.
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The plane is designed to hit 940 mph and cruise at around 55,000 feet, far higher than the typical 35,000 for subsonic airliners.
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Security lapses came under sharp criticism in 2004, after Chechen suicide bombers destroyed two airliners that took off from the airport on the same evening, killing a total of 90 people.
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In a similar rhetorical move, the mass of this week’s star rocket, the Falcon Heavy, was explained by comparison to a 737—one of the most recognizable Boeing commercial airliners in service today.
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Newer airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 are made with a higher proportion of composite materials like carbon fibers, resulting in a reduced electrical conductivity of the fuselage and wings, says Hansman.
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The double-decker airliner wouldn't break the sound barrier, but its vast size compared to anything else in the skies helped drop the cost of long-haul air travel, opening it up to the people in a way Concorde could never hope to do.
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First Known Use of airliner
1908
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: a large airplane used for carrying passengers
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: a large airplane used for carrying passengers
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