air taxi

noun

: a small commercial airplane used for short flights between localities not served by scheduled airlines

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Plenty of air taxis are prepping for take-off within the next few years. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2025 No roads lead into Kobuk Valley, so most visitors arrive via air taxi. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025 If the ambitions of eVTOL pioneers are realized in the U.S., people will be able to hop in an air taxi to get to and from airports serving New York and Los Angeles within the next few years. Michael Liedtke, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025 How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined. New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for air taxi

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of air taxi was in 1919

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“Air taxi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20taxi. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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