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by air

idiom

: by flying in airplanes
travel by air

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The department expects to see 73 million Americans hitting the roads this Thanksgiving week while 31 million Americans are expected to travel by air. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025 Nautilus also offers a Heli Pub Crawl that transports imbibers by air to four of the area’s unconventional bars. Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025 Now that the travel chaos caused by the government shutdown is over, people who are traveling by air are relieved. CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025 Under international aviation procedures, such VAAC bulletins are used by air-navigation and meteorological authorities as the basis for route planning and hazard warnings to aircraft when volcanic ash is present. Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for by air

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“By air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20air. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.

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