Flight Idioms

Here you will find vocabulary that is useful when talking about terrible flights.

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• aisle
  

  a passage between seats in an airplane

• boarding pass
  

  the ticket with your seat number that you get after checking in that allows you to go on the airplane

• bumped up/down
  

  to be moved from your paid seat to a seat of different value

• carry-on
  

  baggage that you take on an airplane

• check a bag
  

  to give a bag to the airline to put in cargo

• check in
  

  to go to the airline desk to get one’s boarding pass

• coach
  

  economy class

• gate
  

  the place in the airport where you board your plane

• get in
  

  to arrive at a destination

• go on
  

  to continue; to talk for a long time

• inflight entertainment
  

  the entertainment offered on a flight

• jet-lagged
  

  feeling extremely tired after travelling across many time zones quickly

• kill time
  

  to do something to help the time pass

• layover
  

  a break or stop in a journey caused by scheduling

• mind-numbing
  

  to be extremely boring

• nervous wreck
  

  a very nervous person

• pooped
  

  very tired

• suck
  

  to be terrible

• take off
  

  to leave (for airplanes)

• take one's mind off something
  

  to do something to help you forget about something else

• the middle of nowhere
  

  a remote and isolated place

• turbulence
  

  rough or unsteady movement of air or water

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