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2. Important Travel Information.

  1. Departures

When you arrive at the airport, you can look at the departures board which shows the flight numbers ( e.g. BA 735), departure times and destinations (e.g. Paris).

At the check-in-desk they weigh your luggage. Usually you can take about 20 kilos. If it is more, you may have to pay excess baggage (= you pay extra). They also check your ticket and give you a boarding card for the plane.

Then you go through passport control where an official checks you passport, and

into the departure lounge. Here you can also buy things in the duty free (e.g. perfume).

About half an hour before take-off, you go to a gate number(e.g. gate 14), where you wait before you get on the plane.

When you board the plane, you find your seat. If you have hand luggage, you can put it under your seat or in the overhead locker.

If there are no delays the plane moves towards the runway.

  1. The Flight.

The captain (= the pilot) or cabin crew may say these things :

  1. Arrival

When the plane lands, and the doors are open, you get off the plane and walk through the terminal building and go to the baggage reclaim. You go through customs( GREEN= nothing to declare; RED =goods to declare)