1、Alexandra之前在机场工作，是什么样的工作呢？学习情境口语顺便了解一下。Todd: Alexandra, you worked at an airport before. You said you worked in Aviation.Alexandra: Yes, my previous job was write contracts for an aviation company and we bought and sold airplanes and aircraft engines, so we did a lot of marketing and leasing and spe
2、aking to people from different countries, and airlines wanting to buy equipment, so a lot of negotiations.Todd: Can you explain what leasing is?Alexandra: Leasing is when our company owns a piece of equipment, either an airplane or an engine and a customer has a need, for example, if their airplane
3、has to do some maintenance, and they need a replacement, then we will let them use our airplane for a certain amount of months, like you rent a car, same thing, same idea.Todd: Oh, wow. And you lease not only the plane but engines as well?Alexandra: Sometimes you have an airplane thats delayed at th
4、e airport because of some reason and they need to swap an engine out, or whatever.Todd: Right before the plane takes off, they sometimes switch engines?Alexandra: Theyll take the passengers off and put them on another plane cause it takes a lot longer than the 10 or 15 minute turn around, but, you w
5、ill have, its more an emergency type of situation, so theyll take the engine off, and it might be and overnight deal so we go ahead and furnish a replacement engine until they can move that plane back to where it belongs or have the engine repaired.Todd: So can you lease a pilot?Todd: You can, yes, you can lease a crew. Yes! Its called a wet lease, and we used to do dry leases meaning we only provided the equipment but a wet lease includes a full crew that will fly the airplane, flight attendants, etc.