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Travel & Airport English vocabulary · Booking & Tickets

Airline

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

/ˈerlaɪn/nounCore term

In travel & airport english, airline means: A company that operates passenger and cargo flights on regular routes and sells tickets for them.

In Turkish: hava yolu şirketi, hava yolu

How it is used

You fly with an airline, book on its website or app, and contact it when a flight is delayed or a bag goes missing. Budget airlines (low-cost carriers) sell cheap fares but charge extra for bags and seats. In official texts airlines are also called carriers.

Example sentences

  1. Which airline are you flying with?

  2. The airline sent me a text to say the flight was delayed by an hour.

Common collocations

  • fly with an airline
  • budget airline
  • airline staff
  • contact the airline
  • national airline
  • flightA journey by plane; also a particular plane service that leaves at a fixed time and has its own flight number.
  • fareThe amount of money you pay to travel on a plane, train, bus, taxi or boat.
  • check inTo show your ticket and passport and hand over your bags at the airport before a flight, or to register when you arrive at a hotel.
  • baggage allowanceThe amount of luggage, in number of bags and weight, that your ticket lets you take on a flight without paying extra.

More terms: Booking & Tickets

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