jetliner

[ jet-lahy-ner ]

noun

1. a commercial jet plane for carrying passengers.

jetliner

/ ˈdʒɛtˌlaɪnə /

noun

1. a commercial airliner powered by jet engines

Word History and Origins

Origin of jetliner¹

First recorded in 1945–50; jet ¹ + (air)liner

Example Sentences

Through a joint project with NASA and NOAA, the researchers worked with the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality flight campaign to transform a jetliner into a flying laboratory.

From Science News

Fisette noted that the Pentagon is in Arlington County, and it was largely the county’s firefighters and emergency medical teams that put out the fire caused by the jetliner crash and provided medical assistance to survivors of the crash.

From Washington Blade

Lukashenko last month sparked international outrage for forcing down a civilian jetliner flying over Belarus last month to arrest an opposition journalist, Roman Protasevich, who was on board.

From Washington Post

Aircraft fuel consumption varies and has improved over the years, but large jetliners can burn anywhere from 600 to 750 gallons of fuel an hour.

From Time

Tracing the trail of errors that doomed those passengers leads back to 2010, when the other member of commercial aviation’s “duopoly,” Europe’s Airbus, unveiled the fuel-efficient A320neo narrow-body jetliner.

From Quartz

The Boeing jetliner had 295 people on board and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

From The Daily Beast

Jetliner bombing plot August 2006 Twenty-four suspects arrested for plotting to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners with liquid explosives.

From The Daily Beast

That's a record dating back to the advent of the jetliner itself.

From The Daily Beast

All she'd lose was one day, and it might be a bit of a vacation if she enjoyed flying in a jetliner at sixty thousand feet.

From Project Gutenberg

Nurse Gloria Farrow waved at me from the ramp of the jetliner, and I ran forward to collect her baggage.

From Project Gutenberg