puddle jumper
noun
informal
: a small airplane
To get there, you catch a puddle jumper out of Denver to Durango …—
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After a 40-minute puddle jumper from Grand Cayman aboard a twin prop plane (or a direct flight from Miami on Saturdays), Le Soleil d’Or is a 10-minute drive from the airport on the island’s southern shore.
—Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
More often than not, luxurious Bahamian and Caribbean vacations involve multiple forms of transportation — most likely a regular commercial plane, followed by a puddle jumper, a ferry or boat, and then a taxi ride.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
Likewise, while many safari camps can arrange private puddle jumpers, only Tswalu in South Africa’s Kalahari has a spacious Beechcraft King Air 350 to help upgrade the 90-minute flight from Johannesburg.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 July 2023
The runway was too short for long-haul private jets, and commercial service was spotty—mostly a puddle jumper operated by American Eagle a few times a week.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2022
The landing strip is now able to accommodate planes up to the size of a Boeing 737, meaning visitors no longer need to land in Barbados and transfer to a puddle jumper across to Canouan.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
Into this landscape flies the brave orphan Atari, who has hijacked a puddle jumper in order to search for Spots.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2018
Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
More often than not, luxurious Bahamian and Caribbean vacations involve multiple forms of transportation — most likely a regular commercial plane, followed by a puddle jumper, a ferry or boat, and then a taxi ride.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
Likewise, while many safari camps can arrange private puddle jumpers, only Tswalu in South Africa’s Kalahari has a spacious Beechcraft King Air 350 to help upgrade the 90-minute flight from Johannesburg.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 July 2023
The runway was too short for long-haul private jets, and commercial service was spotty—mostly a puddle jumper operated by American Eagle a few times a week.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2022
The landing strip is now able to accommodate planes up to the size of a Boeing 737, meaning visitors no longer need to land in Barbados and transfer to a puddle jumper across to Canouan.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
Into this landscape flies the brave orphan Atari, who has hijacked a puddle jumper in order to search for Spots.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2018
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