Archive Language Point 50
Air travel vocabulary

Here is some vocabulary about airports and air travel.

a duty-free shop a shop in an airport where you don't have to pay taxes on the goods you buy a departure lounge the part of an airport where you wait until you get on the plane a gate the place in the airport where you go to get onto your flight a runway the part of an airport, like a road, which planes use when arriving or departing from an airport a control tower the building in an airport which tells planes when it is safe for them to take off and land

the cabin crew
the people who look after passengers during a flight

a pilot
a person who flies a plane

a baggage handler
a person who is responsible for your luggage, after you check-in, and takes it to the plane

an immigration officer
a person who checks your visa and passport when you go into a country

a customs officer
a person who checks you are not trying to bring illegal food, drugs, guns or other items into a country

a cockpit
the place where the pilots sit to control the plane

a galley
the area on a plane where the cabin crew prepare meals and store duty-free goods etc.

a trolley
a small cupboard with wheels. Cabin crews use trolleys to take food and drink to passengers during a flight

a seatbelt
a safety feature on planes to secure passengers in their seats

an overhead locker
a storage area above passengers' heads in a plane

a tray-table
a small table that is stored in the back of the seat in front of you on a plane

an oxygen mask
a piece of safety equipment which passengers put over their nose and mouth to help them breath if there is an emergency on a plane

hand luggage (uncountable)
small bags or suitcases which passengers carry with them onto the plane

checked baggage/luggage (uncountable)
large suitcases or bags which passengers don't carry with them onto the plane but which are put in the hold (the storage area of a plane)

to check in to show your travel documents to the airline staff in the airport so that you can begin your journey to board/to embark to go onto a plane at the beginning of the journey to disembark to get off a plane to take off to start flying in the air to taxi to move a plane slowly along the ground before or after flying to cruise to fly at a steady speed to land to bring a plane down to the ground to fasten/unfasten a seatbelt to secure two parts of your seat-belt together/to untie your seatbelt to approach (the runway) to fly at slow speak towards the runway to declare to give information about goods or money you are bringing into a country

a standstill: a stop or an end a designated area: a place that is signed for a particular purpose (for example, a designated smoking area) a terminal building: the part of an airport where planes arrive or depart from a message: text information to or from a mobile phone to confiscate: to take something away from someone as a punishment for doing something wrong