Monday, May 17, 2010

English Conversations / At flights airport


English Conversations-At flights airport

At flights airport

Ranjan has arrived at the flights airport to catch flight B A 201 to Calcutta.
Ranjan: porter ! Porter?
Porter: Yes sir. Only one bag? What flight and flights airlines sir?
Ranjan: Domestic travel to Calcutta.
Porter: This way sir. Please pay Re 10 for porterage at the airline ticket booking counter.
Porter: airline luggage counter One piece sir? Here is your travel baggage ticket?
Rajan (To the porter). Has the flight to Calcutta been called yet?
Porter Yes sir. Please stand in that line and wait for your turn.
























Voice on the P.A. system your attention please. Calling all passengers traveling by Bharat Airlines Flight Passengers are requested to check in travel baggage at the ticket counter. Thank you. No.201 to Calcutta.
Man at the Ticket counter: your air ticket to Calcutta , sir. Please place your luggage suitcase on weighing machine . As per the airlines luggage regulations, baggage allowance is only 20 kg.

Ranjan: Where is the weighing machine..I have some excess baggage
Man at the Ticket counter Just at your right hand side. Thank you sir. Here is your excess baggage ticket, Do you have any hand baggage.
Ranjan Yes, one piece.
Man at the Ticket counter Here is a baggage tag for your hand baggage. Please keep the excess baggage ticket carefully sir. You’ll require it to claim your excess baggage at Calcutta. Here is your flight ticket and your boarding card. Thank you. Next please.

Airport Ticket Counter

Ranjan: sits on a couch in the waiting lounge.
Girl on the P.A. System: All passengers traveling to Calcutta by Bharat Airlines flight No.201 are requested to proceed for airport security check. Thank you.
Ranjan: (Inside the security check enclosure).
What do you want to check?
Security Inspector: Are you carrying any fire arms or a pointed instrument?
Ranjan: No i do not have any kind of fire arms.
Inspector: (Feeling Ranjan all over). This is just routine, sir. We have to be careful about security , you know. What with all these hijackings going on.
Ranjan: Yes, the newspapers are full of it these hijackings. I wonder how these people do it?

Airport Security Check

Inspector: One cannot be too careful. Do you have any hand baggage ?
Rajan: Yes, this attache
Inspector: Please open it. Right, that is all. Here let me stamp your Boarding card. Thank you.
Ranjan: passes through the security check enclosure and waits in another lounge After ten minutes.

Hand Baggage

Girl on the P.A.system:  Bharat Airlines Flight 201 to Calcutta is now ready for departure. Passengersboarding cards ready. are requested to proceed to the aircraft. Please keep your
Ranjan:  (To the passenger walking next to him). Excuse me sir, which is the aeroplane that we board?
Passenger: The airport shuttle bus standing at the entrance will take us to the  aircraft.

Airport shuttle bus

Ground Hostess: Good evening sir. May I see your boarding card, please? Thank you.
Ranjan:  Excuse me, where do I go?
Ground Hostess :  Please get into that bus
Ranjan:  (sitting in the Bharat Airlines bus, talks to his neighbor). I must say, I’ am most impressed with the efficiency of the Airlines. Air travel is so much more organized, faster cleaner than any other form of travel. Don’t you think so?
Fellow Passenger Yes. It certainly is the fastest way of getting from one place to another. I am a businessman. Very often I travel to Delhi by the morning plane, do my work in Delhi and then return to Calcutta by the evening flight.

Aeroplane moving towards runway

Ranjan : Isn’t that wonderful? You can travel 20000 miles in a day and do a full day’s work as well.
Fellow Passenger: Yes, but this business of Security check wastes so much time. Then the planes are not keeping to their correct timings. Sometimes it can be very frustrating and upsetting too.
Ranjan: Here we are Sir. May I hold one of your luggage bags ?
Fellow Passenger: No thank you I can carry my bag luggage. Thank you all the same for the offer.

Flying aircraft

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