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passenger

[pas-uhn-jer] / ˈpæs ən dʒər /


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In 2024, the most recent year for which data is available, the accident rate was five times higher than passenger and cargo airlines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

A suspected hoax campaign of bomb threats disrupted more than a dozen passenger flights across Europe on Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

"We've been achieving 95% on-time reliability on the valleys network and that's the high standard we want to achieve before bringing something into passenger service in large numbers."

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Aviation security expert Paul Mason said bomb threats on passenger planes "don't happen that frequently", which made the latest incidents "unusual".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

My dad pulls the car over and comes around to the passenger side.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

It’s a tongue-in-cheek sendup of all those viral videos of unruly passengers in recent years—and airlines’ recent propensity to divvy up cabins in a bid for more fee revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Arvind Rajagopal, a media scholar at New York University, told the BBC in 2019 that trains and buses would stop and passengers disembark to watch the show on roadside TVs.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

After landing at the Évreux-Fauville air base in Normandy, passengers learned the flight had been the subject of a bomb threat.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Many airline passengers don’t know about the behind-the-scenes work of flight dispatchers who work with pilots to chart their routes—and avoid problems such as bad weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

This plane was a small jet with a golden parrot painted on the side, and they weren’t the only passengers.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova


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