How to Use air mile in a Sentence

air mile

noun
  • Access to more air miles may come in handy for travelers as the price of flights have soared since the pandemic Additionally, most major airlines have increased their baggage fees this year.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Those who come can get a lot done in a few days, saving thousands of air miles.
    The Economist, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Brazil are also just in friendly action over the coming week, but Arthur has far more air miles to clock up.
    SI.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Frequent fliers can now collect and spend air miles across both airlines.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Normally, getting one million air miles would take you a lot of money and uh, a long, long time.
    Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Hamilton has amassed plenty of air miles during his successful career and will have raced in 21 cities around the world by the end of this season.
    Ben Church, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Introduced nearly 50 years ago, air miles are a way for the industry to make money.
    Anurag Kotoky, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
  • Most of them were relief that after four weeks, thousands of air miles, countless interviews and too many rejections that the Razorbacks had their man.
    Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 10 Dec. 2019
  • His conception of the past and of home has been superseded by busyness—by text messages and air miles and the modern reality of fashion's populism.
    Cody Delistraty, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Instead, credit card companies and banks that offer credit cards would buy up air miles to offer to their customers as incentives for cards with large balances and hefty annual fees.
    Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
  • Numerous analyses show that the energy used by the global Internet already rivals that used by the commercial airline industry — and demand for data is growing far faster than demand for air miles.
    Mark P. Mills, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019

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