| air travel | | |
| n. (act) | 1. air, air travel, aviation | travel via aircraft.; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by 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. |
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