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Air Travel

Definition: Air Travel

Air Travel

Noun

1. Travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Air Travel

Synonyms: air (n), aviation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Air Travel

English words defined with "air travel": flyhot-air balloonpropagatewing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "air travel": air-cushion conveyorconfirmed reservationelastic surface wavesGeneral Aviationhomogeneous atmosphere, HOST/HOSTESS, GROUNDlead ticket-sales agentOldham stone dusterS wave, senior passenger agent, senior ticket-sales agent, speed of sound, superstandard propagation, SUPERVISOR, TICKET SALES. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Air Travel

DomainTitle

Books

  • Air Travel Guide for Seniors and Disabled Passengers (reference)

  • Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel (reference)

  • Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel (reference)

  • The Flying Smart Handbook, The Airline Captains' Complete Guide for Passenger Air Travel (reference)

  • The Smile-High Club: Outrageous but True Air Travel Stories (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Air Travel".

PlayCaption
Air travel at high speed as heard from the cockpit of an airplane.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Air Travel

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You may find that air travel poses a problem if you are suffering from acute or chronic sinusitis. (references)

This is likely due to increased air travel, which provides the ideal mechanism for dengue viruses to be carried around the world into areas where Aedes aegypti occurs. (references)

Business

It is specialized in regional air travel. (references)

The projected increase in air travel is especially strong in the Stockholm region. (references)

While the SCAA group of airports makes up the lion part of all air travel in Sweden, it is the municipal airports that are the most numerous. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

All major European highways pass through Belgium, and its modern national airport allows for convenient air travel. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Because of the large distances that separate Saudi Arabia's main cities, air travel is preferred for travel within the Kingdom. (references)

Uk

Further liberalization of the financial services, air travel, energy, and telecommunications sectors are all economic goals of the Labour government. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Important sectors under development include tourism, manufacturing, air travel, and cargo services. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

State-owned companies continue to dominate such fields as electricity generation and transmission, oil refining, shipping, and international air travel. (references)

Trade

Italy

Italy and the United States agreed on an +ACI-Open Skies+ACI- civil aviation regime in 1999. This is expected to liberalize the Italy-U.S. air travel market dramatically and, indeed, within the first eight months after the agreement was signed, several U.S. air carriers began new passenger or cargo service linking Italy with Chicago, Detroit and other cities. (references)

Travel

Brazil

Air Travel -- Brazil has four principal airlines: TAM, Transbrasil, Varig and Vasp. (references)

Kenya

Due to increased bandit activity, air travel is the recommended means of transportation when visiting any of the coastal resorts north of Malindi. (references)

Argentina

Travel outside greater Buenos Aires can be accomplished by train, bus, or car, although air travel is recommended for many trips to the provinces because of the distances involved. (references)

Worker Rights

Palau

Under the terms of their contracts, they also are to be provided room and board and air travel from their home country to Palau and back after the termination of their contracts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Air Travel

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George W. Bush

2001-2005We will improve intelligence collection and sharing, expand patrols at our borders, strengthen the security of air travel, and use technology to track the arrivals and departures of visitors to the United States.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Travel

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

air travel

5,698

discount air travel

387

cheap air travel

321

bel air travel

254

last minute air travel

58

air travel fare

46

first class air travel

17

free air travel

8

air travel company

8

one way air travel

7

air travel time

6

business class air travel

5

last minute air travel deal

5

bell air travel

4

discount first class air travel

4

air travel consolidator

4

standby air travel

2

air travel search engine

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Air Travel

Language Translations for "air travel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

aptitude aux passages en avion (air travel ability), transport aérien international (international air travel), transport aérien intérieur (domestic air travel), transport aérien de masse (mass air travel). (various references)

   

German

  

Flugreisefähigkeit (air travel ability). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airay aveltray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Air Travel

Misspellings

"Air Travel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airtravel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Air Travel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-r-t-v"

-1 letter: arterial, varietal, veratria.

-2 letters: arrival, reavail, retrial, trailer, travail, variate, velaria.

-3 letters: aerial, arrive, artier, atrial, aviate, errata, irater, irreal, lariat, larvae, latria, railer, realia, retail, retial, retral, tailer, travel, varier, varlet.

-4 letters: airer, aiver, alate, alert, alive, altar, alter, areal, ariel, artal, artel, arval, atria, avail, avert, ervil, irate, laari, larva, later, laver.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-r-t-v"
 

+2 letters: advertorial, narratively.

 

+3 letters: advertorials.

 

+4 letters: preparatively, rebarbatively.

 

+5 letters: conservatorial, extravehicular, overarticulate, overparticular, revalorization.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Air Travel


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72      54 72 61 76 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072      0054 0072 0061 0076 0065 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3575842548467887178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Sounds
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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