article_snippet: Positioning refers to when crew members travel as passengers, often when a route is switching upon arrival .
article_snippet: This occurs when crew members travel as passengers,' Vanhoenacker reveals.
article_snippet: Often it happens when 'a route is switching to a new aircraft type and a crew must already be in place overseas to bring the first flight home.' 'it has a more colourful name in North America: deadheading. '
article_snippet: There-and-backs are routes that allow heavy crew to make it back home - to London - in time for dinner .
article_snippet: It sounds like something Tolkien would have written about, but for an air crew, it refers to a trip that runs from home - London  to a city like Rome or Stockholm and then back on the same day. '
article_snippet: If We do have to stay the night in a hotel, it's called a nightstop.'
article_snippet: Air stewardess Sarah Steeger, who works for a US carrier, explains that this is when a crew member goes to the hotel and does not emerge again until it’s time to leave.
article_snippet: Used wryly, usually for flight attendants who prefer working in the main/coach cabin. '
article_snippet: Nickname for walking through the main/coach cabin to do a seatbelt check.
article_snippet: This is the area of the taxiways near a runway where an aircraft may be sent to wait - out of the way of other aircraft. '
article_snippet: Typically, it occurs if a flight has a time restriction on a flight departure, either because a flight direction of flight is busier than that of other aircraft or because there's inclement weather at a flight destination.'