TAKING FLIGHT AND LANDING

1 PREFLIGHT

The flight begins on the ground with flight checks, push-off from the gate and taxi to the runway.

2 TAKEOFF

The plane is powered up by the pilot and races down the runaway gathering speed.

Commercial flights follow the same flight profile. Whatever the airline, whenever you flew commercially, your journey looked like this

3 DEPARTURE

The plane lifts off the ground and then climbs to cruising altitude.

4 EN ROUTE

Heading to the destination airport, a plane heads through one or more centre airspaces controlled by air traffic control facilities.

5 DESCENT

The plane is manoeuvred towards the destination airport and begins its descent.

6 APPROACH

The plane is lined up with the landing runway at the destination airport and descends further.

7 LANDING

The aircraft touches down on the destination runway. The plane taxis to its arrival gate at the terminal.