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Air Travel Vocabulary

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  • Where they check that you are not trying to take prohibited items (liquids or sharp objects) onto the plane by scanning your hand luggage and making you walk through a metal detector...
    Customs
    Airport terminal
    Security
  • Where you collect your luggage on arrival and where there are usually trolleys for carrying heavy cases...
    Baggage reclaim
    (airline) Lounge
    Gate
  • What's this?
    Row
  • An electronic display showing flight times and if the flight is on time, boarding, closed or delayed
    (airline) Lounge
    Security
    Departures board
  • The feeling of tiredness and confusion that people experience after making a long journey by plane to a place where the time is different from the place they left
    Jet lag
  • Where you take your luggage to check it in if you already have your boarding pass...
    Check-in desk
    Bag(gage) Drop
    Customs
  • Where planes take off and land
    Runway
    Gate
    Track
  • Where you give in any check-in luggage (Bags, cases, etc) and are given a boarding pass if you don't already have one...
    Airport terminal
    Check-in desk
    Departures board
  • Who are they?
    Cabin crew
  • A belt that fastens around you when you are travelling in a vehicle or aircraft and holds you in your seat, in order to reduce the risk of being injured in an accident
    Seat belt
  • Where your luggage may be checked to see if you are bringing illegal goods into the country
    Security
    Customs
    Departures board
  • A strong, uneven current in air or water...
    Turbulence
  • A building at an airport divided into Arrivals and Departures...
    Customs
    Check-in desk
    Airport terminal
  • Where passengers who are travelling business or first class can wait for their flight...
    Check-in desk
    (airline) Lounge
    Customs
  • A.... is to reach the final destination through two or more flights.
    Connecting flight
  • Any flight longer than seven hours is considered a...
    Long haul flight
  • Any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers is called...
    Direct flight
  • Where you show your boarding pass and ID and board your flight...
    Security
    (airline) Lounge
    Gate