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Since the 1960s, academic work has come to be ever more closely entwined with air travel, to the point where many academics today think of flying— even of the intercontinental variety—as an essential aspect of their work life. This situation would never have come about if it were not for the fact that ‘Western societies’, as Peter Adey writes, ‘are made and constituted by air travel, allowing social relationships, networks and associations to be held and maintained, or conversely, to be dis-abled, destroyed, and ruined’ (Adey, 2010, p. 6). International air travel, in other words, is central to our way of life, and in one sense, academics fly because that is what we all do—because, as Mimi Sheller and John Urry put it, ‘All the world seems to be on the move’ (Sheller & Urry, 2006, p. 207). From another perspective, however, it is clear that academics fly for reasons that are quite distinct to them. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that academics have worked aeromobility into the ethos of science, in what might appear like a peculiar mix of necessity and romance: Globetrotting is part of the allure of being an academic, but at the same time, academics must fly if they are to ‘stay in the game’—or so the story goes.