commercial pilot

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

“Well, they’re clearly trying very hard,” said Canadian commercial pilot Brian Beare, 47, touring the museum’s stone-lined passages in early July with his wife and two young sons.

From Los Angeles Times

She would go on to secure a licence as a pilot, a commercial pilot and an engineer all by the time she was 20 years old.

From BBC

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

From New York Times