Which term describes a flight that moves an aircraft from one station to another without carrying passengers?

• A. Direct Flight
• B. Ferry Flight
• C. Deadheading
• D. Flight

Answer: (B)

Moving an airplane from one base to another without carrying revenue passengers is called a ferry flight. This term is used to describe the aircraft itself being relocated for reasons like maintenance, a new schedule, or repositioning to a different station, without passengers on board.

Deadheading, by contrast, refers to crew repositioning—crewmembers traveling as passengers to reach a different duty station while the aircraft is operated by another crew. Direct flight describes a routing term, often implying a flight from origin to destination with a single continuous service, and it doesn’t specify that there are no passengers. A general flight is simply any airborne transport and doesn’t convey the idea of relocating an aircraft without passengers.