"ghost flight" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ghost flights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ghost flight (plural ghost flights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        },
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Aviation",
          "orig": "en:Aviation",
          "parents": [
            "Aeronautics",
            "Transport",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 22, Damian Carrington, “Almost 15,000 ‘ghost flights’ have left UK since pandemic began”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May, Sarah Barrell, “Ghost Flights: Are Empty Planes Haunting Our Skies?”, in National Geographic Traveler, →ISSN, page 143",
          "text": "Airlines may be denying that they run ghost flights, but they're certainly able to operate them during travel bans: they don't have to cancel flights even if pandemic restrictions mean their passengers can no longer travel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations."
      ],
      "id": "en-ghost_flight-en-noun-O7IBTIlJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "flight",
          "flight"
        ],
        [
          "airline",
          "airline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "empty or near-empty flight",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Geisterflug"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghost flight"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ghost flights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ghost flight (plural ghost flights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 22, Damian Carrington, “Almost 15,000 ‘ghost flights’ have left UK since pandemic began”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May, Sarah Barrell, “Ghost Flights: Are Empty Planes Haunting Our Skies?”, in National Geographic Traveler, →ISSN, page 143",
          "text": "Airlines may be denying that they run ghost flights, but they're certainly able to operate them during travel bans: they don't have to cancel flights even if pandemic restrictions mean their passengers can no longer travel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "flight",
          "flight"
        ],
        [
          "airline",
          "airline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "empty or near-empty flight",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Geisterflug"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghost flight"
}