air travel vocabulary

Air Travel topical vocabulary for New Life upper-intermediate

Technical faults

Flight delays

Flight disruptions

To divert a flight

To highjack a flight

To cancel a flight

Cancellation announcements

To take off/ to land

To travel on an airline

To book a flight

To fill in (out) the form

To crash

To board / to disembark

To get on (but to get into a car)/to get off

Boarding

Terminal

Gate (at the gate)

Customs control

Passport control

Check in (v,n)

Information desk

Departures/ arrivals

Lounge

An aisle/window seat

Runway

Hold (n)

Shift

Trolley

Baggage reclaim

Luggage/baggage

Carry-on

Excess baggage

To smuggle

Cabin

Crew

Pilot

Air host/ air hostess/ steward/stewardess/flight attendant

Air traffic controller

Customs officers

Safety demonstration

To inhale a life jacket

Emergency

Flight announcement

To ask for a wheelchair

To fasten seat-belts

Emergency exit

Overhead compartments

Baggage drop off

Departures/arrivals board

Domestic/international flight

Long-hauled/ short-hauled flights

Direct/connecting flights

Non-stop flights

Delayed

A final call

Engine

Conveyor belt

VIP lounge

To walk through a metal detector

Prohibited items (liquids, sharp objects, weapons, illegal goods)

Layover

Jet lag

To do damage

By error

To stand in line/queue

To let the guard down

Courtesy of an airline

Phrasal verbs:

Calm down

Pick up

Be fed up with

Drop off

Bump into

Adverbs

In the end/at the end

Late/lately/

near/nearly/

especially/specially

hard/hardly

in fact

ideally

eventually

basically

apparently

anyway

obviously

gradually