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• Don a Hogwarts robe and take to the skies above The Lands Between.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• But they are not expected to take to the skies in large numbers for years.
  — Niraj Chokshi Tony Cenicola, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The show revolves around young medics and pilots who take to the skies in air ambulances.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• The aircraft were permitted to again take to the skies in 2021, following a two-year ban.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
• On Tern, tens of thousands of seabird chicks sat less than a foot apart from each other on the ground, just waiting to lose their down and take to the skies.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Today's the day for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to take to the skies.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• Millions of Americans are gearing up to hit the highway and take to the skies ahead of the holidays.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• As part of his preparation for school exams, Piccard would set aside his reading and take to the sky.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• How will air traffic control adapt to a world with rockets blasting off as often as planes take to the skies?
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
• Masses of kites take to the skies in Long Beach, Washington, every summer.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2024
• Millions of Americans plan to be like Santa and his reindeer and take to the skies in late December.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Ducks, meanwhile, take to the skies themselves for a six-game road trip to the Southeast, beginning with a Tuesday visit to Nashville.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• Larger-capacity electric planes are also in the pipeline and could take to the skies within the next decade.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• Data from Hopper, the online travel booking platform, shows that Sundays and the fall are the least popular days for kids to take to the skies.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• Or, take to the sky for some paragliding, which is also popular at this location.
  — Adeline Duff, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024
• Millions are preparing to hit the road and take to the skies for Thanksgiving, but stormy weather is threatening to put a damper on travel plans.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• Salt Lake City International Airport is on pace to see a record number of passengers take to the skies this year.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Weather permitting, the skywriter will take to the skies, spelling out the confirmation code in smoke.
  — Lillian Stone, Jon Plester, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
• Passenger counts are rebounding as travelers take to the skies again.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 9 June 2022
• During spring and fall migrations, birds take to the sky in such quantity that radar stations can tally the number of animals in flight.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
• Deaths-by-window peak during migration season, when billions of birds take to the skies at night with their sights set on a destination far away.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
• Ticket prices peaked in May, according to Hopper, reflecting a surge in demand for travel as more Americans felt ready to take to the skies again.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
• Airport terminals that looked abandoned during the height of the pandemic were filling up again this summer with travelers itching to take to the skies again.
  — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
• Nearly 50 million travelers are expected to hit the road or take to the skies this holiday weekend, predicts AAA.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• Most of them have actually decided to eliminate costs such as change fees to incentivize passengers to take to the skies again.
  — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 22 June 2021
• But millions of Americans are still expected to take to the skies and roads this Memorial Day weekend, in what is likely to be one of the busiest travel periods since the start of the pandemic.
  — Christine Chung, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• But as these contraptions start to slowly take to the skies and the companies behind them begin to mark real launch dates on the calendar, the skies of The Jetsons and Futurama don’t seem so far off.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• Thirteen months into a pandemic that brought air travel to a near standstill, Americans are starting to take to the skies in substantial numbers again.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Travelers looking to take to the skies for the upcoming holiday season could be facing some of the highest airfares on record, recent reports said.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 Oct. 2022
• Specifically, the agency expects traveler numbers to increase around Feb. 17 and remain high through April 21 as travelers take to the skies for spring break.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024