You missed an international flight due to a problem at the airport. Write a letter to the airline. In your letter: -describe what happened that caused you to miss your flight -explain how missing your flight impacted you -clearly state what you would like the airline to do

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Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to claim compensation for the missing
flight
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due to
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a strike at the first
airport
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of arrival on my connected flights. A day ago, I took a
flight
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from Cairo to Milan and must have boarded another
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to my destination, Paris. Both flights were provided by your airline,
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Alitalia. I had a tight connection
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, and the transfer
flight
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should have been made within two hours. Unfortunately,
airport
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personnel went on strike,
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the aircraft turnaround
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by parking, offboarding and waiting for the
airport
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apron reached roughly an hour and a half. In no
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I run to the gate of departure through the
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to meet the check-in
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, but I missed it and was not allowed to proceed with the boarding. I must notice that
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this
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,incident I missed my concert in Paris, where I had to be a conductor of an orchestra.
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, now I am obliged to pay a penalty for the disrupted concert. I tried to claim compensation at the
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,
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, your airline representative was not sure whether I am eligible for it or not and advised me to write you a letter. In
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regard, I would like you to consider my claim. Yours sincerely,
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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