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Air Travel Vocabulary

Here are twenty words and terms often used in air travel.

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Do the exercises to improve your vocabulary for air travel.

Have you travelled by air? What is the longest flight you have taken?

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I have not traveled by air, but I'd like to. I would like to fly to see a soccer world cup.

This topic is insane, it's helpful and help me a lot

A few difficult

I travel many time by air.Usually I travel with hand baggage and put there on overhead locker.I adore feeling when plane take off and lands.The most longer flight was 4 hours.

Great topic many thanks

I do travel by air sometimes. The longest flight I took was from Iraq Baghdad to Iran Mashhad. It was more than three hours flight. Unfortunately we sot at the end of the plane and the seats were very uncomfortable. The meal was so small.

My first travel by air was from Madrid to Huston. I found very strange (and a bit unfriendly) that in the American airport everything was written in English, just English and no other language but English, while in Spain they were even in Chinese.

My longest flight is 3 hours to Mumbai. I like to travel by flight but I hate long lines at the airport.

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Level: Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)

Type of English: General English

Tags: travel and leisure transport at the airport making requests and offers Situation based

Publication date: 14/06/2021

Students define key vocabulary related to air travel. They listen to three airport situations and recognise functional language for questions, requests, instructions and announcements. The language is activated in a pair work speaking activity. There is also a short optional extension activity about the final stage of travel - arrival at your destination.

Please note that the audio recordings feature a mix of native and non-native English speakers to reflect what passengers will encounter in real-life.

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international_travel_be.mp3

Good functional language lesson. My students were very engaged and lends itself very easily to additional personalization.

The students felt that the language work was long and tedious Q and A

Does this kind of check-in still exist? I always seem to have to use a machine.

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Students define key vocabulary related to air travel. They listen to three airport situations and recognise functional language for questions, requests, instructions and announcements. The language is activated in a pair work speaking activity. There is also a short optional extension activity about the final stage of travel - arrival at your destination. 

by Stephanie Hirschman 

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When you arrive in Moscow (which is what you should definitely do at least once in your life, if you’re calling yourself a traveler, no offence) by an airplane, you will most likely find yourself in one of the three major airports: Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, or Vnukovo. They all provide services of the highest quality and are on par with many major airports in Europe and United States. Moscow has always been in the top 3 of the most popular European cities in terms of traveling (whether Moscow was the final destination or just a transitional point), so maintaining the most efficient system of handling millions of people each year is now a good old tradition.

This basically means that there is no real need to pay too much attention to which Moscow airport your airplane will bring you to: you won’t be disappointed in any case. The only possible reason I can think of for you to actually be concerned about this, is if you, for example, have a business appointment somewhere in the center of Moscow, but you do not want to leave your own city for as long as you can (for whatever reason), so you want to arrive, say, half an hour before the meeting, but do not want to be late. In that case yes, it is crucial to you know where the airport is, because it defines how fast you can get to the city.

So let me give you a more detailed review of all three airports of Moscow (maybe some particular aspect of one of them will especially charm you). Since we have touched the subject of timing, let’s start with the one that is the closest to the city, and that’ll be Vnukovo.

Vnukovo:  High In The Sky

Another fact that differentiates Vnukovo and puts it above other Moscow airports is that it is literally located higher: 205 meters above the sea level, which is good, because it means that the planes can take off even when the weather is foggy (fog covers the low grounds, and Vnukovo is basically already in the sky).

Continuing the subject of saving your time when getting to Moscow, Vnukovo has one more advantage for people who come from Europe and, for that matter, for anyone who’s flying from the western world: Vnukovo is built on (you guessed it) the west side of the city, so it helps to save another 10 to 20 minutes.

That will probably be it, I mean reviewing Vnukovo: you don’t really care exactly how many planes or people can be managed there (a lot), or about the airport’s history (nothing special), or how long the landing lines are (they’re pretty long), right? I thought so. So with that, let’s get to the next big thing in this top 3. Let me introduce you, lads and lasses, to another famous airport: Sheremetyevo.

Sheremetyevo:  Looking Ahead Is The Key

There are two lines for the planes to take off from (and, naturally, to land on), but they are quite near one another (280 m), so they do not work independently from each other. That, technically, could have been different, because it’s just official rules that do not allow the airport to use them in such a way. Say, in San Francisco there is an airport in which the distance between the lines is 230 meters, and the planes seem to do pretty well, without too much crushing into each other (actually, without any crushing at all). There is a plan to build a third line, for that matter, which should increase the airport’s activity by 60%.

Moscow airport Sheremetyevo is hosting the biggest company of all Russian airlines , “Aeroflot  - Russian Airlines,” and the three major international airline alliances, “Sky Team,” “Star Alliance,” and “Oneworld,” also have chosen Sheremetyevo as a go-to (or, technically, a fly-to) airport when there’s a need for to arrange a landing in Moscow.

I should stop myself again (otherwise this article will drag on forever), and give you a picture of the last (but, as usual, not the least, just the most distant from the city) airport: Domodedovo.

Domodevodo: Another Biggest One

If you’d walk 22 km from MKAD (or 45 km from the city center) south-east from Moscow, that’s where you’d find Domodedovo. It would be pretty hard to miss. It’s the most technologically advanced one, and it gets better and bigger every year. According to an independent British agency “Skytrax,” Domodedovo is the best airport in Eastern Europe, and the British know airports, so that’s a valuable opinion.

If you’re not yet tired of how everything in this article is the best and the biggest, here’s another rather entertaining bit of information. Remember how I said that Sheremetyevo can handle all kinds of aircrafts, but there’s an exception? Well, here’s why: Domodedovo is the only airport in Russia that can provide landing to the biggest passenger plane in the world, Airbus380 (and that thing is indescribably huge, so that’s saying something).

Well, that’s it, I gave you a brief description of all three major airports in Moscow, mostly for educational and entertainment reasons, so I tried to avoid technical or overly mundane information, but if there was something in this article that you’ve found being practical, that’s great. Finally, click the link if you wish to read another piece of important information on how to meet each other in arrivals area at one of Moscow's airports.

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Nuking Moscow with a Space Shuttle

By dwayne a. day monday, december 23, 2019.

During the Cold War, both superpowers spent enormous amounts of money and resources responding to threats from the other side that turned out to not be real. The United States had its bomber gap and missile gap , both based upon faulty intelligence. Those may be the most well-known examples, but there were many others. The Soviet Union, for its part, made numerous false assumptions about what the United States was planning or doing. The most dangerous was the “war scare of 1983,” but there were many instances where the Soviet Union pursued weapon systems to counter nonexistent American threats. One of those is the still murky story of the Soviet conclusion that the American space shuttle was developed in part to drop a bomb on Moscow. Fortunately, thanks to an enterprising researcher, new light is being shed on how that myth was born.

Russian researcher Pavel Shubin has recently uncovered and analyzed a March 1976 document that is the origin of the myth and published the results of his assessment . The document was written by Yu.G. Sikharulidze and Dmitry Okhotsimsky, who was then head of the department at the Institute of Applied Mathematics. The institute had played a major role in determining the trajectories of Soviet spacecraft through the atmosphere, and developing computer guidance for them.

The report concluded that an American space shuttle, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and flying from south to north over the Soviet Union, could make a “dive” in its orbit as it passed over Moscow, and release a nuclear weapon. This technique would enable a weapon to be deployed from the shuttle and detonate over Moscow 200 seconds later, far faster than an American submarine-launched ballistic missile could accomplish the same task. This nuclear dive-bombing would presumably be part of a knockout punch to destroy the Soviet command and control network before the USSR could launch a counter-strike.

According to Shubin, the report went to the Central Committee of the Communist Party where a debate took place, resulting in Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev ordering that a set of alternative measures be developed to secure the country from such an attack. Shubin writes that the report was circulated among several Soviet organizations and that it had a significant impact on the Soviet space program. But what the report actually said was not known publicly, and so over the decades it has only been told and retold and distorted by people who had never seen it. Shubin is the first to uncover it.

A 1973 internal NASA Johnson Space Center document had established requirements 3A and 3B for the shuttle . The first requirement was the ability to launch a large payload into polar orbit and return the shuttle to its launch site at Vandenberg. The 3B requirement was for the shuttle to launch into the same orbit and conduct a rapid rendezvous and retrieval of the same payload that would have been launched under requirement 3A. The shuttle then would have returned to the launch site, this time carrying 11,340 kilograms in its payload bay—the same mass as a large, secret reconnaissance satellite known as the HEXAGON. The 3A/3B requirements were reported publicly, and the authors of the 1976 report concluded that they reinforced their own assumptions about the shuttle’s dive-bombing mission.

One of the primary myths that developed in the Soviet Union and Russian space history circles was that the 1976 report was used to justify the Soviet Buran space shuttle. But Bart Hendrickx, a Belgian researcher and historian on Soviet and Russian space programs, wrote in his 2007 book Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle , that the decision to build the Buran actually pre-dated the report on the American shuttle’s alleged military capabilities by five weeks. How the March 1976 report actually influenced the development of Soviet space and defense policy remains to be explored. Shubin has focused on an interesting and little-examined period of Cold War space history, and hopefully we will see further assessments of this subject in the near future.

Dwayne Day can be reached at [email protected] .

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My boyfriend and I made a trip to Spain(Hong Kong-Madrid and Madrid- Hong Kong). We flied with Aeroflot and had both trips scaling in Moscow. Both going(30th Aug) and coming back(15th Sep), the luggages were spot checked as the suitcase locks were open when we got the luggages back (which we think by Russia Airport Authority as this has never happened since I have transited and been traveling around to any other countries). The going trip to Spain, both suitcase locks were open, broken lock for my boyfriend's case which he bought a new suitcase in Spain later. However, the real disaster was actually the coming back trip!!

When we picked up the luggage, we found out that both luggages were broken, there are also 2 breakage spots on my luggage itself, the luggage handle came off and the locks were totally forced broken(so my boyfriend lost totally 2 suitcases for this trip). I have locked them before check-in and my suitcase is the type that came with international lock that can be opened by international key in case the luggage would be spot checked by any airport authority so it should not be forced open in such manner!

That aside, when we got home, I opened the luggage just to find out that the things inside were totally flipped over in a big mess! The zipped compartment inside was open and the clothes are all messed up(as messy as a 80% sale basket in the shopping mall), the wrapped present was torn open, wrapping paper and the pieces of present scattered around everywhere in the luggage.

Furthermore, my boyfriend's mobile phone(old one with problem which we was thinking to get it fixed in China) and his suit (together with necktie and belt) were stolen! The box of mobile phone was left behind together with the torn open plastic suit bag but both of the items were no where to be found!

So this post is only an example and a warning for you guys to be careful and choose the airline wisely (we bought it because it was the cheapest flight ticket, an obviously resulted as an expensive lesson).

For us, this is the first and will be the last time we will ever fly with Aeroflot or transit via Russia. With what had happened, we would not hesitate to pay 100-200 EUR more to get a better flight that transit elsewhere!!!

Wanting to make sure I understand this. The damage was actually two locks that seemed to be forced open, a handle was missing and the stuff inside was a mess. Also, your boyfriend's suit, tie, belt and mobile phone were stolen? And, a present was unwrapped?

You really can't blame Aeroflot for this. You have no idea who stole these items, or when the suitcase became damaged. Bags go through many hands, and it could have been an airport employee. And, if they can't get the locks open to inspect the contents, yes, they will break the locks. I've had it happen myself when I was using airline approved locks.

Aeroflot is not responsible for security, so they had nothing to do with your luggage locks or the missing items from your bags, so don't know why you were blaming them. While I wouldn't go out of my way to fly on Aeroflot, your title is misleading, as they don't really seem to be the cause of any of your problems.

While unpleasant, I would not call any of this a "disaster".

On the positive side, you could consider it Karmic retribution that the phone that was stolen needed repair.

It sounds like a PITA, I had a built-in lock in a brand-new Antler suitcase broken at New Orleans airport, which was annoying but not the end of the world and the rest of the suitcase was fine. Given it was a TSA lock I'd have thought they could open it without resorting to brute-force, but what can you do? Fortunately the zip has the little loops to put a padlock through. (and I'm not wild about the suitcase anyway, it was bought in a hurry and I could only get black, next time a see a good red suitcase on sale, this one's going!).

Don't buy bags with built-in locks.

How much telling do passengers need to know that valuables and medication must never be placed in hold luggage.

How many TV programs which show how easy it is to get into a locked suitcase, even the Airport nicknames, Thiefrow and Gatnick, here in the UK, probably many more across the globe.

When I had items stolen whilst my case was in the hands of Iberia ( nothing of value ) . I was told I had 7 days in accorance to the Montreal Convention to place my claim in writing to Iberia. I did and they replied saying I would be contacted in due course.. My insurance paid out thankfully and as you say you learn from your mistakes Iberia has lost my business.....

>>>but all valuable items (camera, tablet) have been stolen.<<<

Have you truly never thought that it's not a good idea to put valuable items into your hold bags? Has no one ever mentioned it to you if you haven't considered it for yourself? Have you never read such advice anywhere?

I don't want to sound disrespectful, but if I have such items they remain with me at all times, just liek any medication I'm taking.

I agree that valuables can be stolen even if your bag is not delayed or lost.

While we know:

1) Never to pack valuables in checked luggage.

2) Never to check anything you're not prepared to lose.

3) That locks won't keep a thief out of your luggage.

4) The COC usually has a clause limiting the carrier's liability on checked baggage to a token sum, with a further proviso that carriage of goods is at the passenger's risk.

5) A good insurance policy will cover some of the loss, provided you were thorough and properly documented the contents of your luggage.

Savvy traveler or not, I don't think anyone here would be happy to find their luggage trashed (twice over) and their clothes either missing or messed up.

Despite item #4 which I wrote earlier (about the COC) it just doesn't seem right that the carrier can just simply wash their hands off the matter either (although that's what usually happens). After all, you paid for a ticket and for them to carry your baggage too. Why, you might as well just mail your clothes in advance to your destination and spare yourself having to lug a suitcase to the airport!

I have had my suitcase damaged, back in 2002, and while I wasn't exactly jumping around with joy, I wasn't too upset as it was 18 years old anyway.

I can only speak for myself, but I take the approach that with the automated processes that are in place for baggage handling, it's almost certain that something unfortunate will happen at some point if you fly regularly enough. My insurance will cover it, so it''s not worth fretting about.

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