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Cool Breeze Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Arrive to

I wrote about to being used with arrive a few weeks ago, but EF's search engine cannot find it, so I'll write a new post. I found another example of arrive to in a British aviation magazine called Airliner World. (December 2021 issue, page 15)

This comprises Flight SQ 322, which will arrive to the UK capital at 0555hrs local time on the inbound leg.

The preposition isn't the only thing I find weird in the sentence. Why is Flight capitalised?

CB

  

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Cool Breeze This comprises Flight SQ 322, which will arrive to the UK capital at 0555hrs local time on the inbound leg. Airlines have millions of arrivals, so I guess they can spawn jargon for that word if they want. I looked up the editor-in-chief, and he is not what you'd call a dyed-in-the-wool word guy, coming as he does from TV production and business management.

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  • Cool Breeze This comprises Flight SQ 322, which will arrive to the UK capital at 0555hrs local time on the inbound leg.
  • Airlines have millions of arrivals, so I guess they can spawn jargon for that word if they want.
  • I looked up the editor-in-chief, and he is not what you'd call a dyed-in-the-wool word guy, coming as he does from TV production and business management.
  • I'm glad someone besides me is at least keeping an eye on this.
  • Cool Breeze The preposition isn't the only thing I find weird in the sentence.
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Cool BreezeThis comprises Flight SQ 322, which will arrive to the UK capital at 0555hrs local time on the inbound leg.

Airlines have millions of arrivals, so I guess they can spawn jargon for that word if they want. I looked up the editor-in-chief, and he is not what you'd call a dyed-in-the-wool word guy, coming as he does from TV production and business m

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The preposition for locations is at; to is used for abstract nouns.

Whereas Suzanna was warmly greeted, her younger sisters arrived to a cold welcome.

The Oxford English Dictionary lists “arrive into” or “arrive to” as obsolete expressions, as in this 1800 quote (showing a very distinctly older form of English! "arrive to + an age" is

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Cool Breeze

Why is Flight capitalised?

CB

It's an ad hoc proper noun (my name for it) when used with a number (SQ 322) that makes it specific and therefore not just a common noun.

To my mind this is correct, to the point that I've often wondered why we don't capitalize in cases like Chapter 5, Page 283, and P

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