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ghost flights

ghost flights is the plural of ghost flight.

Meaning of ghost flight

Noun

ghost flight (plural ghost flights)

  1. An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations.
    • The ghost flights, defined as those with no passengers or less than 10% of passenger capacity, operated from all 32 airports listed in the data.2022 February 22, Damian Carrington, “Almost 15,000 ‘ghost flights’ have left UK since pandemic began”, in The Guardian
  2. A flight in which the aircraft continues to fly after incapacitation of the pilots or crew.

Questions about ghost flights

What is ghost flights the plural of?
Ghost flights is the plural of ghost flight.

Words near ghost flights in the dictionary

  1. ghost flatworm
  2. ghost flatworms
  3. ghost fleet
  4. ghost fleets
  5. ghost flight
  6. ghost flights
  7. ghost forest
  8. ghost forests
  9. ghost frog
  10. ghost frogs
  11. ghost from one's past

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