TOP 21 – Airport Vocabulary

21 Useful English Vocabulary Words which helps you to be confident during travelling

1. Aisle – the long empty space that you walk down – прохід між рядами;
2. Aisle/window seat – the seat that is next to the aisle/window – місце біля проходу/вікна;
3. Baggage reclaim – the place at an airport where you collect your cases and bags after a flight – місце отримання багажу;
4. Boarding card -an official card that you have to show before you get onto a plan – посадковий квиток;
5. Carry-on/hand luggage – the small cases or bags that a passenger can carry onto an aircraft – ручний багаж;
6. Check-in – the area at an airport where you show your ticket so that you can be told where you will be sitting – реєстрація;
7. Customs – the place at airport where travelers’ bags are examined for illegal or taxable goods – митниця;
8. Departure lounge – the place at an airport where people wait until their plane is ready to leave – зала для пасажирів, які готуються до посадки;
9. Flight attendant, steward (male), stewardess (female) – someone who serves passengers on an aircraft – стюард та стюардеса;
10. Forced landing – the action of bringing an aircraft down to the ground after being in the air done suddenly and quickly because the situation makes it necessary, not because it was planned or wanted – вимушена посадка;
11. Gate – a part of an airport where travellers are allowed to get on or off a particular aircraft – вихід;
12. Runway – a long specially prepared hard surface like a road on which aircraft land and take off – злітна смуга;
13. One-way ticket – a ticket that can only be used to travel in one direction and not for returning – квиток в одну сторону;
14. Return ticket – one going to a place and back again – квиток туди і назад;
15. Safety belt – a belt attached to the seat of a car or plane which you fasten around yourself for protection in an accident – пасок безпеки;
16. Stopover – a short stay in a place that you make while you are on a longer journey to somewhere else – транзитна зупинка;
17. To board – to get on a bus, plane, train etc in order to travel somewhere – сідати;
18. To cancel – to say that an event that was planned will not happen – скасувати;
19. To delay – to wait until a later time to do something to make someone or something late – відкладати, запізнюватися;
20. To land – moves safely down onto the ground to arrive – приземлятися;
21. To take off – if an aircraft takes off, it rises into the air from the ground – злітати.