transit lounge

English

Noun

transit lounge (plural transit lounges)

1. (aviation) A waiting room at an (international) airport for passengers changing flights, or for long-haul passengers who have to leave their aircraft while it is serviced and refuelled (in both cases for passengers who haven't finished their journey).

Related terms

• transit passenger

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: vaihtomatkustajien aula, kauttakulkuhalli

Further reading

• “transit lounge”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “transit lounge” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “transit lounge”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “transit lounge”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.