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skycap
Wiktionary
n. A porter at an airport.
WordNet
n. a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport
Wikipedia
A skycap is a porter employed at an airport and provides the following services to airline passengers:
The skycap is the descendant of the redcap, a railway Porter. Redcaps were named for their distinctive red hats, which helped them stand out from a crowd so that railway passengers could easily identify them. When commercial airlines became viable, many airlines provided skycap service because people were accustomed to getting assistance from railway porters, and the term “skycap” was coined to describe porters who worked in airports.
Skycaps often wait near the curb, so that they can meet passengers as they arrive with especially heavy luggage. Most skycaps have access to luggage carts for moving luggage around, and they may also assist with wheelchairs, strollers, and oversized items. Most skycaps also perform curbside check-ins for flights, allowing passengers to skip the lines at the airline's counter, help unload luggage from cars and taxis, and they also answer questions from passengers and family members.
By tradition, skycaps are tipped for their services. Generally tips are offered per piece of luggage; in the United States, tips of $1-2 US per bag are common, with higher tips being offered for extra services such as checking overweight bags or getting passengers in front of long lines. Skycaps are found at major or international airports in Canada. Rates average at $10 flat rate for 3 pieces of baggage and $2 per additional items.
Usage examples of "skycap".
I went after him but a Skycap had me by the ankles before I could get down the conveyor.
I was also hoping that George the Skycap had alerted Denver Police and that they would be waiting for Merritt whenever and wherever the system was planning on dumping her in Concourse B.
And the Skycap had said that there were twelve different collection points on each side of the terminal.
LuAnn asked as they entered the terminal a few minutes later, a chubby skycap with the bags in tow.
You went in behind the skycap and come out ten minutes later with one bag and got into another cab.
At the airport he helped the skycap get her bags from the rear seat, then went to park the car while she checked in.
The skycap hopped to, rolling his cart up next to the carousel and readying himself to grab the suitcase as it passed.
Russ slipped the skycap a five-dollar bill and led Sharon over toward the well-dressed stranger.
She walked carefully but quickly, following Leonard Smith toward a shiny black Mercedes which waited near the curb, moving aside to give the skycap room to roll the luggage to the rear of the car.
Welton on her right, and a skycap pulling a luggage cart along behind them.
When it came time for the skycap to hoist the trunk from the cart, he tugged and wheezed like a cardiac patient.
Lyndon Gray slammed the trunk lid, tipped the sky y cap, and turned to the two women as the skycap tugged the cart back to the terminal.
Dan said, and kissed me long and hard, while jets screamed overhead toward the ends of the earth and a couple of skycaps whistled and applauded.
Bags and boxes came down in a steady stream from the ticket counter and from skycaps on the curb into the cavernous concrete bag room to be sorted, loaded into carts, and driven to the airplanes--hopefully the right ones.
We were standing in the middle of the vast ticketing lobby, where we were surrounded by a swirl of people and bags and skycaps and carts and animal carriers.