passenger
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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
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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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