Where passengers may check luggage before entering the airport.
What is the curb?
100
Children are not permitted to sit here on an airplane, for safety.
What are the Exit Rows?
100
A child small enough to sit on someone's lap and who does not have to buy a seat, usually 2 years old or younger.
What is an infant?
200
GDS
What is Global Distribution System?
200
Portion of a flight from a takeoff to a landing; Chicago to London, London to Mumbai has two of these.
What are legs?
200
Seat designed to be used only by a crew member.
What is a jump seat?
200
These seats are often reserved for passengers needing a little extra attention or mothers traveling with infants.
What is the bulkhead?
200
A person younger than 18 who is traveling alone.
What is an unaccompanied minor?
300
TSA
What is Transportation Security Administration?
300
O&D
What is Origin and Destination?
300
Offering passengers beverage or snacks.
What is cart service?
300
By custom, these are often designated C and D.
What is are aisle seats?
300
Special action or service given to a customer, such as bringing a wheelchair.
What is a Special Service Request?
400
FF
What is Frequent Flyer?
400
The estimated time needed to change planes in a particular aiport.
What is Minimum Connect Time?
400
A ban on carrying animals in the cargo area of a passenger plan during extreme weather temperatures.
What is a pet embargo?
400
A fold-down seat designed to be used only by a crew member.
What is a jump seat?
400
Record that indicates a passenger purchased soemthing other than a seat, for example a movie, an upgrade, a pass to the lounge, or other extra.
What is a special service request? (SSR)
500
The part of a flight that a passenger flies; for a flight from London to Chicago to Dallas, a passenger who gets on in Chicago and off in Dallas flies one of these.
What is a segment?
500
The list of all passengers who actually boarded an airplane.
What is the passenger manifest?
500
The science of selling different seats on the same flight at different prices depending on factors like scarcity, days until departure, and flexibility to change plans.
What is revenue management?
500
The 3 letter shorthand for passenger, used in messages between airline personnel.