noun · informal

flight

/flaɪt/FLIGHT

Band 4-5speaking

a journey made by airplane between two places

Examples

“Our flight to Bangkok was delayed by three hours.”

“I prefer night flights because they save a day of travel.”

“She missed her flight because of heavy traffic.”

Band 8 sentence

“I missed my connecting flight because the inbound service was delayed in bad weather.”

Collocations

  • book a flight
  • catch a flight
  • direct flight

Word family

flight nounfly verbflying gerund/adj

Common mistakes

I took a ticket to London.→I took a flight to London.

I booked a trip to Tokyo.→I booked a flight to Tokyo.

Say it for a higher band

5trip→6journey→7+flight

Synonyms

trip

Easily confused

trip

“Our trip to the coast included a long drive and a short flight.”

Related words

accommodationbaggagesustainablehotelsightseeingcurrencyairportgate

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