Air travel vocabulary

1. 5. Air travel

10. 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. What about you, where do you prefer to stay, window, aisle or middle seat? http://www.opentravelinfo.com/node/509

11. - 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.

12. - 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

14. - to leave the ground and start flying: take off ; noun: take-off We took off at three-thirty. Take-off has been delayed for thirty minutes. - to come back to the ground: land, touch down ; noun: landing We should be landing in just a few minutes. The plane had just touched down when there was a bomb alert. It was a rather bumpy landing! - to move slowly along the ground before take-off or after landing: taxi The plane taxied up to the terminal building.