How to Use cruising altitude in a Sentence

cruising altitude

noun
  • So yes, there’s a long list of foods to avoid at cruising altitude.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
  • At cruising altitude, your sense of taste and smell can dull due to low cabin pressure and dry air.
    — Jill Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The pilot just announced that your flight has reached cruising altitude, so the seat belt sign has been turned off.
    — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
  • These are the fascinating ways your body changes while at cruising altitude on flights.
    — Nathalie Alonso, AFAR Media, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The mishap could have been far more catastrophic had the plane reached cruising altitude.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • While some fall asleep before the plane reaches cruising altitude, others are antsy throughout a red-eye flight.
    — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • The change in air pressure meant that the jet needed more fuel to reach cruising altitude, adding more weight to the aircraft.
    — Escher Walcott, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But once the aircraft is at a cruising altitude, owners have the option of removing the leash.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Others won’t hop on a plane without applying under-eye masks at cruising altitude.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
  • However, at cruising altitude, both slats and flaps should be fully retracted.
    — John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Plus, planes are subject to more intense solar radiation at cruising altitude, and the white paint can help reflect it.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Plus, one of the best parts about being at cruising altitude is being unreachable and recharging your social battery.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
  • Some things can wait Many flight crew members are happy to respond to a page from a call button once the plane is at cruising altitude—with one major caveat.
    — Bobby Laurie, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Homendy said that if the blowout had happened a few minutes later, after the plane reached cruising altitude, the accident might have become a tragedy.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But before long, this peripatetic entrepreneur will be back at cruising altitude.
    — airmail.news, 5 July 2025
  • Then there are air traffic controllers who focus on the next phase, the ascent or descent a little farther out; then there are controllers who keep planes at cruising altitude on track.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Safety experts have said the accident could have been catastrophic if the Alaska jet had reached cruising altitude.
    — David Koenig, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • From what to sip with those delicious Biscoff cookies to the science behind our cravings at cruising altitude, here’s what Kuhn had to say.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • People often behave differently in the air—and sometimes that shift begins before the plane even reaches cruising altitude.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
  • The aircraft has hit cruising altitude, there’s no turbulence, and you’re settled comfortably in your seat, eager to give the in-flight entertainment your full attention.
    — Blane Bachelor, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The playing is generally strong throughout, reaching cruising altitude after the first couple of dates, but as aways with Floyd concerts, the singing is very uneven and often off-key.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The line of sight to the horizon for someone in an airliner at cruising altitude is about 360 kilometers long, assuming the terrain below is level.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2024
  • After the aircraft departed Kendari and reached cruising altitude, the pilot-in-command asked for permission to also rest and the second-in-command took over the aircraft.
    — Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Riley moves fast out of the gate, in short order showing Cootie’s progress from giant baby, to giant boy and, when the series reaches its cruising altitude, giant 19-year-old.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • This growing meteorological chaos is also being felt at cruising altitude.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
  • From the cruising altitude of aircraft like Melnyk's, high above the clouds and far from city light pollution, auroras can appear brighter, sharper and more expansive than from the ground, with clouds and city lights far below.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The program’s second half hits cruising altitude with Bret’s montage of highlights from the Aughties’ cringiest cable-TV show ever.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
  • On many commercial flights, pilots transition to sophisticated autopilot systems shortly after takeoff that manage much of the flight at cruising altitude.
    — Tim Burns, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • Instead, the pilots pulled up, climbing to cruising altitude and continued to the flight’s destination of San Francisco without any other problems.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Most die during the ordeal, either from being crushed by retracted landing gear or expiring from hypoxia (lack of oxygen) or hypothermia from the freezing temperatures at cruising altitude.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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