connecting flight
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- noun
- /kəˈnɛktɪŋ flaɪt/
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vuelo de conexión
- She rushed through the airport to catch her connecting flight to New York.
And the connecting flight was to Stansted.
- And the connecting flight was to Stansted.
- We missed the connecting flight and the next flight to Montrose wasn't until the next day.
Examples
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There's a connecting flight to Berlin... and we'll be there at noon tomorrow.
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Passengers making connecting flights from Mexico should proceed to gate 14.
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I need to get to my next connecting flight.
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You have a connecting flight.
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For passengers making a connecting flight...
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I'm gonna go and find out about our connecting flight.
Fiction book (1997) -
As you exit the aircraft, our flight agents... will help direct you to any connecting flights.
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The last connecting flight to Peoria is through Chicago, but it's all sold out.
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There's a connecting flight from San Francisco in 90 minutes.
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A 2-hour delay in Madrid will give us 30 minutes to catch our connecting flight.
Blog text (31)
Synonyms
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A later train or plane you take to continue a journey
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'connecting' (=providing a connection or link) modifies 'flight' (an aircraft journey), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it means a flight that links to another flight and typically involves changing aircraft at an intermediate airport. This construction is common cross-linguistically and involves no idiomatic shift, making the meaning immediately predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Connecting flight comes from the picture of a connecting flight, where one flight links to another at a 'stop' airport and passengers get off one plane to get on the next. So, it means a journey that needs a stop and a 'change of planes' to reach your final destination.