commercial flight
Scheduled airline travel
A commercial flight is a scheduled air travel service operated by an airline for paying passengers, as distinct from private, military, or charter flights.
Commercial flights follow established routes between airports on published timetables: The first commercial flight to the island begins next month.
The term also refers to individual trips: My commercial flight was delayed three hours.
- airplanePowered flying machine
- airlineAir transport company
- passengerTraveler, not operator
- frequent flyerHabitual air traveler
- boarding passAirline entry document
takeoff · landing · boarding · turbulence · jetlag · altitude · cabin · window seat · aisle seat · cockpit · pilot · stewardess · runway · terminal · gate · jet bridge · departure · arrival
- flightsdeparture, arrival, boarding, nonstop, one-way trip
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, thin air, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization
- Aviation HistoryWright Brothers, Wright Flyer, Wright brothers, Kitty Hawk, aviation pioneers
- Supersonic flightConcorde, sonic boom, Mach number, sound barrier, SST
commercial flightprivate charter
Exclusively rented transportation vessel
private jet · private aviation · charter flight · executive jet · business jet
commercial flightmilitary aircraft
Armed forces' aerial vehicles
military transport · reconnaissance flight · bombing run · combat mission · naval aviation
commercial flightground transportation
Non-flying travel methods
train travel · road trip · sea voyage · rail journey · driving
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