Air
travel
A flight made regularly according to a
timetable: scheduled flight.
A flight in a plane hired for a
particular purpose or a particular group of people: charter flight: I'm going to take a charter
flight; it's much cheaper.
A plane that travels frequently
between two places: shuttle: I'm catching
the shuttle up to Edinburgh.
The amount of money you pay to travel
by plane: (air) fare.
Bags, etc that you take with
you onto a plane: hand luggage (AmE hand baggage)(noun U): Can I take my guitar as hand
luggage?
Money that you have to pay
for bags, etc that are heavier than the weight limit: excess baggage
(charge): Will
I have to pay excess baggage?
A place in an airport where you
wait before getting on your plane: departure lounge.
To get on a plane: board: How
much longer before we board?
A ticket that you need in
order to board a plane: boarding card, boarding pass.
The person who is in charge of a
plane: captain: This is your captain
speaking.
All the people who look
after the passengers on a plane: cabin crew (with singular or plural
verb).
A person who looks after the
passengers on a plane: flight attendant; a man who does this is also
called a steward; a woman who does this is also called a stewardess, or
air hostess.
The part of a plane where the
passengers sit: cabin.
Fuselage: /ˈfjuːzəlɑːʒ/ the main part
of an aircraft in which passengers and goods are carried. The part in which you sit
as a passenger — is called the fuselage.
Your luggage rides in the fuselage
too. E.g. The fuselage
was recovered on Sunday but the salvage team is still looking for the tail
section, which contained the black box flight data recorder. Surrounding homes
and shops were also destroyed: television pictures showed the fuselage of the plane
lodged in a building, one of its wings detached.
The part of an airliner with
the cheapest passenger seats: economy class (noun U); parts with more
expensive seats: first class (noun U), business class (noun U), club
class (noun U): I
usually fly economy. A business-class seat.
Happening or provided during
a journey on a plane: in-flight: In-flight movies.
Overhead compartment, airplane luggage
compartment, overhead bin, overhead locker: a luggage compartment above
the passenger seats for holding carry-on luggage in an airplane.
On a plane you can get an aisle seat, a middle seat
or a window seat: I definitely
prefer the window seat. That way, I don't have to deal with people moving up
and down the aisles or being crammed between two people I don't know. If I'm
travelling with people I know, I don't mind the middle seat as much.
To get off a plane: disembark.
To stop for a short time on
a plane journey: stop over; noun: stopover: We're planning to stop over
in London. We
had a two-hour stopover in Delhi on our way to Sydney.
A plane that leaves soon
after another arrives and that takes you on the next part of your journey: connection: If this plane is late, I'll
miss my connection in Dallas.
To change to a different plane during
a journey: transfer: At
Heathrow we transferred to a domestic airline.
A feeling of tiredness
caused by travelling to a place where the local time is very different: jet
lag (noun U); sb who suffers from this is jet-lagged.
All the people who work on a plane: crew
(with singular or plural verb): The
plane has a crew of seven.
The part of a plane where the pilots
sit: cockpit.
To move slowly along the
ground before take-off or after landing: taxi: The plane taxied up to the
terminal building.
A long piece of ground with
a hard surface where aircraft take off and land at an airport, etc: runway.
A tall airport building from where
planes are controlled: control tower.
A person at an airport who
gives radio instructions to pilots from the control tower: air traffic
controller.
If an aircraft flies without using an
engine, it glides.
The height of an aircraft above sea
level: altitude.
An accident in a plane, etc: (plane)
crash; verb: crash (sth).
To land an aircraft causing
damage to it: crash-land (sth); the pilot or the aircraft crash-lands;
noun: crash landing: He was forced to crash-land
in a field.
The plane ran out of fuel and had to make
a crash-landing in the desert.
If a plane falls from the
sky or lands in a place outside an airport, it comes down: The plane came down in the
middle of a field.
Broken pieces of a plane,
etc that has been badly damaged: wreckage (noun U): The rescuers managed to
pull three survivors from the wreckage.
A plastic or rubber jacket
filled with air that keeps sb floating in water: life jacket.
A thing that you put over
your face to be able to breathe in an emergency in a plane: oxygen mask.
A piece of strong cloth that
is tied to sb and that lets them fall slowly to the ground when they jump from
a plane: parachute; to use a parachute: parachute: He parachuted safely to the
ground.
Violent or uneven movement
of air, making flight uncomfortable: turbulence (noun U).
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