English: The car seat is not approved.
French: Le siège d’auto n’est pas approuvé.
When passengers bring on a car seat, you’ll need to check to see if it’s approved for your plane, and your airline will teach you how. Once in a while, a passenger will bring on a car seat that is not approved for use on your aircraft and you’ll have to tell them. Depending on procedures, the car seat will probably need to be tagged and sent to the cargo for the flight while the passenger holds the baby for take off and landing.
Here’s how we can tell the passenger that the car seat is not approved.
Le siège d’auto=The carseat
Est=Is
Approuvé=Approved
Le siège d’auto est apprové.=The car seat is approved.
To negate a sentence in French, we put “ne” and “pas” around the verb, in this case “est” “is”. But because the verb here “est” starts with a vowel, it contracts with the “ne” preceding it and we get:
Le siège d’auto n’est pas apprové.
In casual speech, the “ne” is often dropped in negations, leaving the sentence with the “pas” only.
Le siège d’auto est pas approuvé.
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-Less common food/drinks/special meals.
-Bag issues (bag won't fit/no more space).
-Announcements for mechanical problems, cancellations, airplane changes, diverting, etc.
-Delays because of fuel, catering, connection passengers, weather, etc.
-Tight/missed connections.
-And much, much more!
Flight Attendant Souvenirs. Souvenirs d’un agent de bord. United Arab Emirates, February 2020. Émirats Arabes Unis, février 2020. The bus tour also took us by the Global Village, a centre for tourism, leisure and shopping. The large park is divided and themed after 90 different countries from around the world where you can buy goods and eat foods from each specific place. Just past its entrance are replicas of the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum, etc.
