air lane

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Rommel, at the end of his retreat last month, still had African airdromes to command a narrow air lane across the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is warfare in terms of every continent, every island, every sea, every air lane in the world.

From The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Up to the passenger air lane at nine thousand: higher to twelve, the track of the international and supply ships; higher still, to the fourteen thousand ceiling of the antiquated machine.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various

Directly, having gone far ahead, it came speeding back, along a lower air lane and performed a series of circling and darting gyrations, which doubtlessly had a signal-code meaning for the troops.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)