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Stopover

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

/ˈstɑːpoʊvər/nounCommon term

In travel & airport english, stopover means: A planned break in a long journey, usually of a day or more, when you stay in a city before continuing to your final destination.

In Turkish: konaklamalı aktarma, ara mola, stopover

How it is used

On international trips airlines often define a stopover as a stay of more than 24 hours, while a shorter break is a layover or connection. Some airlines sell stopover packages with a hotel in their hub city. In British English stopover is also used loosely for any break between flights.

Example sentences

  1. On the way to Bangkok we had a two-day stopover in Istanbul and saw the old city.

  2. Does this ticket allow a free stopover in Singapore?

Common collocations

  • stopover in
  • free stopover
  • stopover package
  • make a stopover
  • layoverThe time you spend at an airport between two flights when you change planes on the way to your destination.
  • connecting flightThe second or later flight you take to reach your destination when there is no direct flight, after changing planes at another airport.
  • transitPassing through an airport or country on the way to somewhere else, without staying or formally entering that country.
  • itineraryA detailed plan of a journey that lists the flights, dates, times and places in order, and often the hotels and activities too.

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