Recovery flight

How it is used

Used in disruption updates when an airline organizes a flight to move affected passengers onward.

Example sentences

1. A recovery flight collected the passengers who had spent the night at the diversion airport.

   The flight is organized in response to an earlier interrupted journey.

2. The recovery flight arrived with a replacement crew and enough seats for the whole group.

   The service provides transport capacity after normal arrangements fail.

Common collocations

• arrange a recovery flight
• recovery flight departure

Related terms

• delayA situation in which a flight, train or other service leaves or arrives later than planned; as a verb it means to make something late.
• rebookTo book again, especially to move a passenger to a different flight, train or date after a cancellation, delay or missed connection.

More terms: Delays, Cancellations & Connections

• cancel
• connecting flight
• layover
• gate change
• missed connection
• compensation
• overbooked
• transit
• ETA
• stopover
• self-transfer
• minimum connection time