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.

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).