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Repatriation flight

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

nounCommon term

In travel & airport english, repatriation flight means: A flight organized to bring people back to their home country, often during a major disruption or crisis.

In Turkish: ülkeye dönüş için düzenlenen uçuş

How it is used

Used in consular and airline notices; eligibility, booking and payment arrangements depend on the operation.

Example sentences

  1. The consulate sent registration details for a repatriation flight after regular services stopped.

    The flight is organized specifically to bring stranded people home.

  2. Passengers on the repatriation flight assembled at the designated check-in desks.

    A specially arranged flight still has coordinated departure formalities.

Common collocations

  • register for a repatriation flight
  • organize a repatriation flight
  • consulateAn office of a country's government in a foreign city that helps its own citizens there and often handles visas; it is smaller than an embassy.
  • flightA journey by plane; also a particular plane service that leaves at a fixed time and has its own flight number.

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