air travel

Thesaurus

Noun

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air travel - travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" aviation, air travel, traveling, travelling - the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" flying, flight - an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him" overfly, pass over - fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus" fly - travel in an airplane; "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"; "Are we driving or flying?" red-eye - travel on an overnight flight; "The candidate red-eyed from California to the East Coast the night before the election to give a last stump speech" cruise - travel at a moderate speed; "Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude" stooge - cruise in slow or routine flights stall - cause an airplane to go into a stall stall - experience a stall in flight, of airplanes buzz - fly low; "Planes buzzed the crowds in the square" crab - direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind aviate, pilot, fly - operate an airplane; "The pilot flew to Cuba" fly blind - fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments fly contact - fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference solo - fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers test fly - test a plane jet - fly a jet plane glide - fly in or as if in a glider plane kite - soar or fly like a kite; "The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains" sailplane, soar - fly a plane without an engine power-dive - make a power dive; "The airplane power-dived" nosedive - plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft crash-dive - descend steeply and rapidly chandelle - climb suddenly and steeply; "The airplane chandelled" belly-land - land on the underside without the landing gear crash land - make an emergency landing ditch - make an emergency landing on water land, put down, bring down - cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" deplane - get off an airplane emplane, enplane - board a plane peel off - leave a formation