layover

"I'm scared because we have been hearing about the news, the way people are dying in the Congo," Patrick Akwongu, 61, who flew in from Italy with a layover in Addis Ababa told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

He initially walked by but returned to check it out on a two-hour layover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

There is just one direct flight per day from Glasgow to New York and with so few seats left, the cost is more than double travelling via a layover in Amsterdam.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

It was the summer of 2016, and my family and I were travelling back to the States from Bangladesh — an arduous 23-hour-long journey that was further extended by a 12+ hour layover in Istanbul.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

We boarded the bus in late afternoon and rode with-out incident to Selma, where I had a long layover before taking another bus into the state capital.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Six colleagues visiting a remote factory might bypass three commercial layovers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

We would bid for three-day layovers in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

Flying with layovers gives you more options, though few are cheaper than $500 for a round-trip ticket in the days before and after the game.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

They may find themselves on long bus rides or juggling layovers and connections, and spending more time away from campus than if they were primarily competing regionally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

The idea, in his words, was for the place to be a kind of “work lounge” for those of us on assignment in the city, or for “associates” of ours having unexpected layovers.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee