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Page 1: Airline Vocabulary. Terminal Building Where passengers purchase tickets, check baggage, board and disembark planes

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Terminal Building

Where passengers purchase tickets,check baggage, board and disembark planes

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Jetway

The hallway that joins the plane to the terminal

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Control Tower

The tower from which air traffic controllers direct planes in the air and on the ground

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Hangar

A place where airplanes are stored and repaired

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Round-Trip

A trip that begins in one city, goes to another, and end in the originating city

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Open-Jaw Trip

A journey that interrupted by surface travel OR has a return destination other than the originating city

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Hub and Spoke Route

A major airport is the center point - hub

Connecting flights are the spokes

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Direct Flight

A flight carries travellers from one destination to another – no stopovers

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Online Connection

Travel between two destinations in which travellers change aircraft (not airlines) to complete the journey

                                      

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Interline Connection

Travel between two destinations in which travellers change airlines to complete the journey

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Load Factor

Percentage of seats filled on the airplane