SOME AVIATION RELATED ABBREVIATIONS

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Some common terminologies are listed here for your convenience imn understanding the latter chapters. These terms are used frequently in airlines for fast communication among cabin crews & also in cockpit crews. So, without making delay revise these short collection of terminologies.

ABBREVIATION        FULL MEANING
A/C or a/c          Aircraft
A/P                 Airport 
PAX /Pax.           Passengers.
A B S               Able Buddy System.
A B P               Able Bodied Person.
AT D                Actual Time of Departure.
A T A               Actual Time of Arrival.
E T A               Estimated time or Arrival.
E T D               Estimated time or departure. 

I C A O International Civil Aviation Organization.
I A T A             International Air transport Association.
F A A               Federal Aviation Administration (USA).
A F T               Towards rear/tail of the A/C.
F W D               Towards front of the A/C.
GMT                 Greenwich Mean Time.
UTC                 Universal Coordinated Time. 

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