The phrase "airplane gate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the specific area at an airport where passengers board or disembark from an airplane.
Example: "Passengers are requested to proceed to gate 12 for boarding their flight to New York."
Alternatives: "boarding gate" or "departure gate".
He led airport police officers on a chase deep into the terminal, past several airplane gates.
The changes will differ depending on each airline, the FAA says, since there are differences between types of planes and how things are run at each different carrier, but the FAA anticipates that most will allow passengers to use their gadgets "in airplane mode, gate-to-gate, by the end of the year".
And once you clear that hurdle, you head to the next — gridlock at the airplane boarding gate, with its evocations of Ellis Island circa 1903.
The report comes during a nationwide crackdown that has already led to the arrest of hundreds of airport workers on charges that they used fraudulent Social Security numbers to obtain jobs providing access to airplanes, ramps, gates and other restricted areas.
Over a two-hour lunch of tacos and enchiladas, Whitby talked about American's service problems: occasionally not having anyone on the ground to park an airplane at the gate, or being told to pull back from the gate to log an on-time departure while 20 bags sat on the ground.
As many airline commuters are well aware, federal law prohibits the use of wireless communications devices once a commercial airplane leaves its gate.
A teenager scrambled into the street near a downtown hotel, waving his slender arms at an oncoming car as if he were guiding an airplane to the gate.
You snap a picture of the airplane at the gate, and post it to Facebook: "About to set off for a great bachelorette weekend with the girls in Miami!
"The bottom line is the airport was open and there was staff available to bring that airplane to the gate, park it and get those people into the terminal building.
For each attribute, which we call data item, we assume that a single true value exists that reflects the real world (e.g., the actual departure time of a flight is the minute that the airplane leaves the gate on the specific day).
