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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Air Traffic Control System Command Center in the US
A US Federal Aviation Administration organization responsible for controlling US airspace
A US Federal Aviation Administration organization responsible for controlling US airspace
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Air Traffic Controller
A trained and certified professional who directs and manages aircraft movements to ensure safe, orderly, and efficient flight operations.
A trained and certified professional who directs and manages aircraft movements to ensure safe, orderly, and efficient flight operations.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: air traffic in Europe and forecasts
A data-and-forecast entry noting that the Association of European Airlines publishes monthly and annual totals while Eurocontrol maps traffic flows and produces forecasts expressed as IFR flights; it gives a breakdown example for 2007 (about ten million IFR flights in the Eurocontrol area, split across scheduled, low-cost, business air, charter, cargo, other, and military categories) and provides a 2030 forecast range for IFR movements in the Eurocontrol Statistical Reference Area with average annual growth estimates, emphasizing that growth will vary by time and region and pointing to the AEA and Eurocontrol statistics/forecast sources listed in the original entry.
A data-and-forecast entry noting that the Association of European Airlines publishes monthly and annual totals while Eurocontrol maps traffic flows and produces forecasts expressed as IFR flights; it gives a breakdown example for 2007 (about ten million IFR flights in the Eurocontrol area, split across scheduled, low-cost, business air, charter, cargo, other, and military categories) and provides a 2030 forecast range for IFR movements in the Eurocontrol Statistical Reference Area with average annual growth estimates, emphasizing that growth will vary by time and region and pointing to the AEA and Eurocontrol statistics/forecast sources listed in the original entry.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: air terminal
A passenger or cargo handling building at an airport, where passenger terminals typically include check-in facilities for travellers and baggage as well as baggage reclaim areas for arriving passengers.
A passenger or cargo handling building at an airport, where passenger terminals typically include check-in facilities for travellers and baggage as well as baggage reclaim areas for arriving passengers.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: air ticket revalidation
The manual-ticket process used when air travel routing changes (with or without fare changes), requiring reissue and updates through reservation alteration stickers, careful checking that the new booking still complies with the fare rules (such as timing restrictions, validity periods, minimum stay, or stopover rules), striking through the old entries on all coupons, applying the completed sticker, authenticating it with issuing office identification, and—where BSP uses duplicate stickers—fixing the extra copy to the passenger coupon, noting that this manual process does not apply to electronic tickets.
The manual-ticket process used when air travel routing changes (with or without fare changes), requiring reissue and updates through reservation alteration stickers, careful checking that the new booking still complies with the fare rules (such as timing restrictions, validity periods, minimum stay, or stopover rules), striking through the old entries on all coupons, applying the completed sticker, authenticating it with issuing office identification, and—where BSP uses duplicate stickers—fixing the extra copy to the passenger coupon, noting that this manual process does not apply to electronic tickets.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: air tickets
In the UK, agent-sold air tickets are accounted through BSP, with agents reporting sales electronically when the electronic ticket is created (or in limited cases by post) and then being billed for the ticket value minus commission; while e-tickets dominate, manual tickets may still be encountered, and the entry explains older ticket printer systems (ATB and TAT) that were hard to alter, versus handwritten manual tickets with multiple self-carboning coupons including an audit copy sent to BSP, an issuing office copy, travel coupons, and a cover that also served as the passenger copy, with a note that BSP operates widely worldwide and a cross-reference to ARC for US arrangements.
In the UK, agent-sold air tickets are accounted through BSP, with agents reporting sales electronically when the electronic ticket is created (or in limited cases by post) and then being billed for the ticket value minus commission; while e-tickets dominate, manual tickets may still be encountered, and the entry explains older ticket printer systems (ATB and TAT) that were hard to alter, versus handwritten manual tickets with multiple self-carboning coupons including an audit copy sent to BSP, an issuing office copy, travel coupons, and a cover that also served as the passenger copy, with a note that BSP operates widely worldwide and a cross-reference to ARC for US arrangements.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Air Traffic Conference
A former body within the Air Transport Association that handled self-regulation of US and Canadian domestic airlines and also vetted and appointed travel agents until 1 January 1985, with the agent appointment role later undertaken by the ARC.
A former body within the Air Transport Association that handled self-regulation of US and Canadian domestic airlines and also vetted and appointed travel agents until 1 January 1985, with the agent appointment role later undertaken by the ARC.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Air Traffic Control
The services that coordinate and control air traffic worldwide, with a cross-reference to the Single European Sky initiative for European context.
The services that coordinate and control air traffic worldwide, with a cross-reference to the Single European Sky initiative for European context.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Air Traffic Control Centre
A facility from which air traffic within a defined area is managed, with cross-references to ATCSCC, FIRs, and MLS.
A facility from which air traffic within a defined area is managed, with cross-references to ATCSCC, FIRs, and MLS.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: AHTA
The Association of Hungarian Travel Agents
The Association of Hungarian Travel Agents
