Air travel

A building at an airport divided into Arrivals and Departures

• Airport terminal

• Departures board

Where you show your boarding pass and ID and board your flight.

• Security

• Gate

Where your luggage may be checked to see if you are bringing illegal goods into the country.

• Gate

• Customs

Where passengers who are travelling business or first class can wait for their flight.

• Airline Longue

• Customs

Where you give in any checked-in luggage and are given a boarding pass if you don't already have one.

• Check-in desk

• Airport terminal

Where they check that you are not trying to take any prohibited items onto the plane by scanning your hand luggage and making you walk through a metal detector.

• Check-in desk

• Security

Where planes take off and land.

• Runway

• Gate

Where you take your luggage to check it in if you already have your boarding pass.

• Bag drop

• Baggage drop

An electronic display showing flight times and if the flight is on time, boarding, closed, or delayed.

• Departures board

• Runway

Where you collect your luggage on arrival, and where ther are usually trolleys for carrying heavy cases.

• Baggage reclaim

• Baggage drop