hey guys welcome to lingua marina today we're going to learn english at the airport i'm actually flying from new york back home to san francisco and i'm going to teach you everything that is connected with flying so hopefully that next time that you fly somewhere you'll be able to use the words that you learned in this video so listen and watch carefully let's start so we just arrived at the airport and uh i booked a transfer for the transfer company but you can also book a taxi so transfer is something more formal and something you have to pre-book a taxi is a car that you just catch on the street or use uber app to get it of course depending on the city you will be able to use public transportation to get to the airport now once you're here you need to figure out which terminal you're in and normally your ticket would have that information now we're at terminal 5 and my airline is jetblue this information is extremely important because once you have it you know where to go you can either carry your luggage yourself but you can rent a cart depending on where you are it's either free or not in the us it's not free so you actually need to pay to rent a car and i only have my carry-on with me so carry-on or hand luggage is something that i'm gonna take on the airplane with me so i don't really need a car let's go and check in for the flight you can check in yourself using your terminal and then drop off your bags at the counter or you can just go to the counter and they will do everything for you but because i only have a carry-on and this is a domestic flight a domestic flight is within one country if you're flying out of the country it's called international so because i'm on a domestic flight i did online check-in and i have my boarding pass in my phone already and in most of the countries you won't need to print your boarding pass you just show them your phone and you go okay i just went through a thing called security check this is where they screen your bags this is where they check your id again because i'm traveling domestically there were no customs customs is where you have to declare things if you're carrying over know ten thousand dollars in cash or you're bringing mona lisa with you from paris like a real one you have to declare that if you're traveling internationally again with domestic flight you don't need to do that and then another thing that i've only seen it in the u. s it's called tsa pre basically what this means is that if you're a resident in the u. s they screen you once before the flight they give you this id number they check your criminal record if everything is fine they give you an id number which gives you an option to go through a separate line where everything is a lot faster like the whole security check because you know how you normally if you go through a security check they would ask you to take your laptop out they would ask you to take your shoes off now if you're a tsa pre and traveling in the us from the us then you have a separate line which is a lot faster and i did it i think three years ago and it was free with my bank card and it just saves a lot of time it's always a good idea to arrive early for your flight if it's an international flight that's at least two and a half hours if it's domestic then well an hour and a half just because every airport is so exciting and once you go through the passport control once you check in your bags you have all the stores you have plenty of things to do i couldn't really film when i was going through a security check but something happened there i was selected for a pat down it happens randomly you go through security and they tell you you know you're selected for a random check which means you need to allow additional five to ten minutes or sometimes twenty for them to check you so basically they pat you from head to feet to check whether you have any weapons on you or whatever so for me it took less than five minutes i went through an additional screening and now i'm free to do whatever i have an hour and a half before my flight departs but the boarding starts 40 minutes prior to departure so i have half an hour to walk around the airport to show you things i'm actually gonna check out the business lounge and i'm gonna show you what's going on during this part of the flight i posted something quickly on instagram if you don't follow me there oh you totally should it is called lengua marina i post almost daily stories about my life in the us and i also post short videos about learning english so make sure to pause the video here subscribe my instagram and come back this is called departures and a rivals board this is where you check when your flight departs and which gate you need to go to now it's super important that you actually check how long it's going to take you to get to the gate because at some airports like frankfurt airport or london airport london heathrow it can take you 20 minutes to get to your gate so it's super important to time that otherwise if you're late for boarding you can be denied boarding even if you're checked in even if you passed everything they can tell you you know your flight is already closed go ahead and book another flight which is kind of stressful in some airports if it's the last call for your flight they would actually announce and i've had the situation a couple of times when they were like miss mcgilko this is the last call for your flight and i would run like crazy in the u.
s they don't normally do that i guess it's just is there too many people here like it would be too stressful for everyone to listen to the announcements all the time so just make sure you're not late for your boarding air force security [Music] my daughter emily loves airplanes so i'm gonna get one for her so she could play i don't know maybe this one i'm at the gate getting ready to fly excited about the flight because i slept for three hours this night and the flight is six hours which means i would probably sleep for four hours and i'm really looking forward to it now buying things at the airport can be extremely expensive this is a 15 plastic airplane and water can cost five dollars and food can be super expensive so it is a good idea to buy everything before you actually fly because at the airport stores are like a monopoly they can set extremely high prices and it is better to buy your food beforehand by the way if you're flying in the u. s or from the us to canada and you're from a different country make sure you have your own food because they don't give you food if you're flying economy even if it's a six-hour flight like on this flight i was lucky i got an upgrade but on this flight they're not going to give food to people in the couch and couch is another word for economy in the u. s economy class so always always have your food it happened to me i think it was back in 2014 when i was flying in canada from toronto to vancouver which is like a five hour flight and i didn't know but like it was my first time flying within canada and i didn't know that they were not going to give us food and the only option for me to eat was to buy something on the airplane again overpriced not healthy not delicious so since then i always have my food with me [Music] now when boarding the flight there are actually several groups when you board and if you're flying business or first to boarding in the first group so basically depending on the class you're assigned to a different group it is normally written on your boarding pass so when you're ready to board make sure you know which group you're in because they're gonna announce group number four boarding group number five boarding and you can't really board before your group is announced but you can board after that just make sure you don't miss the flight i know in some countries they don't allow you to sit on the floor i just loved it since the first time i traveled sitting on the floor then you can sit anywhere anyways what i wanted to tell you is that if you're traveling internationally you also have this opportunity to shop without taxes which is called duty free basically price can be seven to ten percent cheaper compared to local stores and if you are looking to buy something more expensive like maybe perfume or maybe some makeup it makes sense to buy it in a duty-free shop so if you have time at the airport and you decided that you want to treat yourself then do some duty-free shopping now this is a domestic terminal so they don't have any duty-free shops here but if it's an international terminal any store there except for like food stores will be duty free i used to like shopping duty-free but what i didn't like is that sometimes you buy things they take them away from you so you don't consume them in the country and they give you everything when you land in your destination country and it just adds more hassle i think that happened to me in canada when i was flying back to russia they took everything away and then they gave me everything back when we landed in russia and i bought this face cream that i really wanted to use when we were flying i don't know there are so many surprises when you fly i'm trying to talk about everything that could possibly happen but you know i've been flying a lot since i was 14 i've been flying alone um but every airport is different every country is different i would say american airport is where you get less service like in dubai for example you can get a free stroller for your kids in some german airports you can get a free coffee free water you have very good restaurants here it's much more like everything in the u.
s like you have some fast food joints you have some souvenir stores but they don't provide you with free strollers no free coffee or tea you can find some water fountains to drink for free basically that's it i like the fact that in the us you can buy makeup like this from a vending machine this is kylie cosmetics oh this i think this is super cool okay this is the rest from pretty standard i'm not going to film in here but [Music] okay sometimes you cannot get a direct flight to your destination which means for example if i wanted to fly from new york to san francisco i had an option to buy a non-stop light which i got but sometimes you get two flights and then you have your flight and your connecting flight normally it is cheaper so some people prefer to do that and they would fly from new york to say texas austin then change there change their flights and fly to san francisco takes a bit longer sometimes it's cheaper and sometimes it just makes more sense for example when we fly from san francisco to st petersburg first of all there are no direct flights and second i like to take a break between a transatlantic flight and a transatlantic flight is basically what it is you fly above the atlantic ocean normally lasts for me like 11 hours so i like to take a break at the airport stay the hotel and then take my connecting flight to my destination a couple more terms that i want you to know a long whole flight is normally a flight that's longer than six to seven hours and another term uh very popular in the u. s called a red eye flight basically i like how american english is created basically a red-eye flight is when you have to wake up super early maybe like even 2 a. m in the night to get your flight and when you arrive because you didn't sleep well your eyes are red so this is called a red eye flight now americans are obsessed with collecting miles and i'm obsessed with collecting miles you get uh some banks uh give you miles for using their credit cards like chase bank or brax so you collect miles and then you can redeem them for your flight this means you can fly business class for like 60 dollars and 150 000 miles which again in my case because i have a business and we have a lot of transactions we have a lot of miles that i can redeem for business class flights now one more thing there is business class and sometimes there is first class now first is supposed to be like extra luxury but not in the u.
