How to Use air transportation in a Sentence

air transportation

noun
  • Uber has long aspired to bring air transportation to its platform.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Most of those gains were in delivery services and air transportation roles.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The round trip air transportation element begins and ends at the point of departure.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The rising prices of ground and air transportation will eventually be paid for by consumers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But for Alaskans who live off the road system, reliable air transportation is essential.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The modern air transportation system is nothing short of miraculous.
    — Paul Eremenko, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2024
  • At times, avoiding air transportation can lead to difficult decisions.
    — Emily Chan, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • The Pentagon also might provide air transportation support to DHS.
    — Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The case reached a settlement which forces Hawaiʻi to overhaul its ground and inter-island sea and air transportation systems to achieve zero emissions by 2045.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 31 July 2024
  • Early last year, a series of high-profile near-collisions at airports left many experts and travelers alike wondering what's going on with the nation's air transportation system.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The first group of 14 included several who are seeking various medical jobs, while another wants to be an air transportation specialist.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
  • The attorneys also asked the judge to order the government to provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland and to grant him parole.
    — Laura Romero, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, no recent theater of war has been easier for outsiders to join than Syria thanks to next-door Turkey’s global and low-cost air transportation infrastructure.
    — Tom Keatinge, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2014
  • Until the jet age, seaplanes were major players in air transportation, with the first regular intercontinental airplane services taking off and landing on the water.
    — New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Rising energy prices, if elevated for long enough, could eventually feed into core inflation by making services such as freight and air transportation more expensive.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The union represents a broad range of workers, including in air transportation, health care, public service, manufacturing and the nuclear industry, Saula said.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • This solves liability problems but can create tax problems, because payments between related entities can lead to federal excise taxes on air transportation.
    — Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • If ground transportation is substituted in lieu of air transportation, the Date Winner will not receive the difference between the value of the air transportation and the ground transportation.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Xwing’s Superpilot uncrewed air transportation system is already capable of gate-to-gate autonomous flight, according to the company.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The plan aims to streamline operations by optimizing surface and air transportation, creating a stable and empowered workforce, offering a modern and transformed network of post offices and more.
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Southwest’s meltdown highlights the complexity and interconnectedness of our air transportation system.
    — Laurie Garrow, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The data includes air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists working in air transportation or services incidental to transportation.
    — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Intended to reduce emissions from air transportation, sustainable aviation fuel has properties similar to conventional jet fuel, but with a smaller carbon footprint.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That spending covers everything from the 48,000 hotel stays at a time when bookings are light ahead of hurricane season, restaurant meals and dining, take-home souvenirs, ground and air transportation, and even salsa dancing lessons.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This ground stop of just a few hours caused enormous delays in the air transportation system, resulting in three out of five flights being delayed or cancelled, and average delays reaching almost 90 minutes, according to FlightAware.
    — Laurie Garrow, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The announcement comes after Joby in August closed its $125 million acquisition of Blade, a helicopter and air transportation company.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite its many problems – including the loss of more than $33 billion over the last five years – Boeing is still a major force in US manufacturing and vital to America’s air transportation system.
    — Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Ryan’s planes were retrofitted to seat four to six passengers, and a daily air transportation service between San Diego and Los Angeles was established as Ryan Airlines Inc.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That group boasts substantial business holdings in a range of areas, including the automotive sector, telecommunications, energy, construction, engineering, shipping, and air transportation.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
  • The Department of Transportation rescinded an order from 2019 that had suspended foreign air transportation between the United States and Venezuela.
    — Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026

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