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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
in-flight
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ in-flight movies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, the in-flight schedule is sometimes arranged in accord with time in your departure zone.
▪ For there is an unspoken rule that to swoop too eagerly on the in-flight sweet is uncool.
▪ Mr Needleman had spent his life as an airline dietitian, planning in-flight meals.
▪ One enterprising airway promotes this idea by showing an in-flight video that leads passengers through such a work-out.
▪ The guy flies on planes with a lap top computer plugged into a in-flight phone.
▪ There was the provision of food, drink, in-flight entertainment and duty-free goods, and the printing of tickets.
▪ We all know about in-flight movies.
▪ We sat in our seats like airline passengers watching the in-flight movie without headsets.
Wiktionary
in-flight

a. occurring, provided or for use during a flight

Usage examples of "in-flight".

Aces High was going to war, and every man and woman in the small unit, from the airman basic cook in the in-flight kitchen to the commander, knew it.

The rendezvous was automatic--the tanker's navigation computers performed the entire operation, backed up by occasional updates by the B-2A's synthetic aperture radar transmitting in air-to-air mode--and a few short minutes later, the KC-10's flying boom was nestled into the B-2A bomber's in-flight refueling receptacle.

I tried to watch the in-flight movie, but I lost the plot line during the opening credits.

By Tuesday, Pearsall thought, their reports would be analyzed—the reports they had prepared during the past in-flight months.

Therefore, expect extensive last-minute in-flight replanning and retargeting.

The in-flight movie appears to be yet another romantic comedy about a harried young career woman who finds love in a completely unexpected place.

It wasn't comfortable attire for air travel, where the seat size, leg room and safety belt seemed designed to do roughly the opposite of a Corby Trouser Press, to say nothing of the constant precipitous fear that your in-flight meal, drink and tea or coffee (sir?

He pulled down the window shade, accepted the attendant's offer of pillow and blanket, and told her that he would not need the in-flight meal or any other refreshment.