Learn the airport language!
- Public area of ??the airport - a part of the airport that can be accessed by anyone, e.g. departure hall, arrivals hall, car park, bus terminal, railway terminal.
- Departure hall - an area with check-in desks and security control for passengers departing from a given airport
- Arrivals hall - the area where arriving passengers end their journey at the airport
- Restricted area - a part of an airport to which only air passengers, crew and airport employees can get.
- Kiss & Fly - driveway to the departure hall, where people escorting air passengers can leave their car for a few minutes for free. Warning! There is often a rule that the person escorting must not move away from the vehicle.
- Check-in - ticket and luggage check-in desks - a place where you can check in for the cruise and check in checked baggage. You can also arrange other matters such as: adding a loyalty card number, checking luggage weight, changing the seat on the plane, receiving information about your flight, etc.
- Gate - entrance gate - a place where ground handling agents check boarding passes and let passengers onto the plane
- Security control - a place where security officers search passengers and scan their hand luggage in order to let them into the restricted area of ??the airport
- Passport control - a place where Border Guard officers check passengers' identity documents and pass them between the Schengen and non-Schengen zones
- Lounge / Business Lounge / Lounge - a place where passengers with a sufficiently high loyalty status or for a fee can wait for their cruise in very comfortable conditions
- Loyalty card - a card issued by the airline to people who fly frequently. It is associated with loyalty status
- Loyalty status - indicates how often a given person is a passenger of a particular airline and what privileges they are entitled to on this account
- Boarding - the process of boarding passengers
- Boarding pass - a boarding pass - issued during check-in, entitles the passenger to board the plane and make a flight
- Checked baggage - baggage that the passenger puts in the care of the air carrier is transported in the aircraft hold
- Baggage tag - a baggage tag is attached to checked baggage with proof of the baggage check-in for a specific flight, the passenger receives a baggage slip from this tag
- Hand baggage - baggage that the passenger takes on board the plane
- Personal item - a smaller personal item that the passenger takes with him on the plane, e.g. a handbag, an umbrella, a laptop bag, a camera / camcorder etc.
- Air carrier - the airline
- Duty free - a general concept related to shopping without duty, it is possible in some shops in the restricted area of ??the airport"