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commercial pilot

American  

noun

  1. an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.


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Among those who had travelled to Delhi was commercial pilot Samrat Khanna, who said he had swapped flying duties to attend the march.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

“These types of technologies are going to be an incredible enhancement,” Jim Webb, Boeing’s chief commercial pilot, said in September at a pilot union conference in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

Gerald Cook, an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is a former commercial pilot and flight operations manager who flew for Spirit from 1999 to 2010.

From Slate Oct. 15, 2024

It’s her first book that doesn’t take place aboard an airplane, though it begins when a commercial pilot suffers a fatal heart attack.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2024

After the war, he applied to be a commercial pilot, but was told he was barking up the wrong tree.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2024

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