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

Examples of cruising altitude in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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