Airports & Flying from the UK
Check-in, security, the gate and borders, in plain words.
All 15 phrases
Check-in and bags5
- Are you checking any bags in?Do you have hold luggage (bags that go in the plane's hold)?
- Just hand luggageOnly cabin bags.
- Will that fit in the sizer?Low-cost airlines check cabin bags in a metal frame.
- Window or aisle?Seat choice at check-in
- Is this the queue for bag drop?Checking you're in the right queue
Security and the gate5
- Do I need to take my liquids out?The rules depend on the airport's scanners.
- Is this your bag? We just need to have a look insideSecurity wants to search your bag by hand.
- The gate's not up yetYour gate number isn't on the screens yet.
- This is the final call for passengers on flightThe last boarding announcement.
- We're just waiting for a slotThe pilot means the plane can't take off until air traffic control gives a time
Borders and coming back5
- I've got an eVisa. Here's my passportUK visa holders now prove their status with an eVisa linked to their passport
- Do I need to give fingerprints?The EU Entry/Exit System takes your fingerprints and a photo at Schengen borders
- We landed over three hours late. Can I claimUnder UK261 you may be owed compensation for long delays, unless there were extraordinary circumstances like bad weather
- Nothing to declareCustoms on the way back: green channel if you're within your allowance, red if you have goods to declare
- There's a charge to drop offMany UK airports charge to use the drop-off zone
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- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 15 phrases.
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- Written by Talk in plain English.
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- From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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