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100 Awesome Airplane Captions and Flying Puns for Instagram

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Enjoy this incredible collection of airplane captions for Instagram posts. Is there anything better than soaring through the clouds in an incredible aircraft? If you’ve taking some awesome photos, use our selection of brilliant flying captions to perfectly describe the moment!

For the witty among you, we’ve included a great section full of the funniest flying puns you will find anywhere! If you’re in control of the aircraft, jump straight to our specific section filled with funny pilot puns.

Humour is a great way to get a reaction to your post. There are so many hilarious aviation puns to choose from in this article!

But thats not all…

Further down the article there’s also a collection of our favorite airport captions for those of you about to post that pre-departure photo to the gram!

Are you a frequent flyer?

Check out the section of the best flying quotes for Instagram. There really is something for everyone in this post!

Airplane Captions

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  • Airplane mode on.
  • I don’t care what the question is, the answer is always an airplane ticket
  • I’ve got my head in the clouds…. literally.
  • Spread your little wings and fly away.
  •  It’s a flight as a feather.Worth Every Mile.
  • Smile at the world, and she’ll smile back.
  • Love at first flight.
  • Always looking up.
  • All you need is a flight and a backpack.
  • I’m just going to wing it.
  • I’m most at home in the clouds.
  • There’s nothing like seeing the world from above.
  • And we go up, up, up. Higher and higher.
  • Go up in the clouds because the view’s a little nicer.
  • Adventure awaits.
  • Ready for take off.
  • Let your dreams take flight.
  • I’ll fly anywhere with you.
  • I am not afraid of flying. I’m afraid of not flying.
  • Find joy in the journey.

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Flying Puns

Flying Puns
  • Eat. Sleep. Fly. Repeat
  • It’s Time To Wing It
  • Fly-Hard
  • It’s Time To Change Your Altitude
  • Live and Let Fly
  • Ready to Fly
  • The Sky is Calling and I Must Go
  • Here Today Flying Tomorrow
  • It’s Plane and Simple… I Love Flying
  • Airplane sounds… when do we want them? Nyeeeeooowwww!
  • Hey vacay.
Aviation Puns
  • May your heart soar high!
  • In the clouds and on my way to unknown things.
  • I have nothing to lose and a world to see.

Pilot Puns

Pilot Puns
  • Come Fly With Me
  • Find Joy in the Takeoff
  • Fly high. Dream big.
  • This view never gets old
  • Pilot Mode: Activated
  • Eat. Sleep. Takeoff. Repeat
  • Pilot Mode: ON
  • Why Work When You Can Fly?
  • I’ve Got My Head Up In The Clouds

Airport Captions

Airport Captions
  • I followed my heart and it led me to the airport.
  • Up, up, and away.
  • Looking fly.
  • I’ma touch the sky.
  • So come on fly away with me, to a place where we could be anyone we wanna be.
  • Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly.
  • You only live once, just take the flight.
  • Don’t overthink it, just keep it plane and simple.
  • The sky’s the limit.
  • Escape the ordinary.
  • Flying to where the wifi is weak and the drinks are strong.
  • I’m letting my dreams take flight.
  • I’m like a bird, I only fly away.
  • My soul is in the air.
  • I’ll fly a little higher.

Flying Captions for Instagram

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  • Chasing clouds.
  • Life’s a journey, enjoy the flight.
  • I feel most like myself when I’m in the clouds.
  • Fly me to the moon.
  • Good things come to those who book flights.
  • I’m flying without wings.
  • Catch flights ,not feelings.
  • See how the fluffy clouds move by us.
  • “Whenever I dream about flying, it’s the best feeling in the world.” – Kate M.
  • Relationship status: In love with my passport and planes.
  • Don’t make me walk, when I want to fly.
  • Prepare for takeoff.
  • I’m learning to fly around the clouds.
  • Let’s fly away.
  • Happiness is landing in a new place.
  • High in the sky.
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  • Nothing about this trip will be plane.
  • Being this high off the ground feels air-mazing.
  • Adventure is in the air.
  • A change of latitude would help my attitude
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  • If you never go. You will never know. 
  • That flight flew by!
  • I am riding high and I don’t want to come down.
  • I’ll take a one way ticket please.
  • Greeting to everyone on the ground.
  • Up in the clouds on my way to unknown things.
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  • That little spot on the ground is my hometown.
  • My friends don’t ask ‘how are you?’, they ask ‘where are you?’.
  • We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
  • It’s only when you’re flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.
  • Do more things amongst the clouds.
  • I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings.
  • Life is short and the world is wide, better get started.

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  • If I can touch the sky, I risk falling just to know how it feels to fly.
  • Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?
  • And the clouds are my pillows while I dream of my next adventure..
  • You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s basically the same thing.
  • If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.

Flying Quotes for Instagram

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  • “The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? – it is the same the angels breathe.” –  Mark Twain
  • “You wanna fly, you got to give up what weighs you down.” – Toni Morrison.
  • “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” – Frida Kahlo.
  • “Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” – Amelia Earhart.
  • “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.” – Ernest K Gann.
  • “Thirty thousand feet above, could be Oklahoma, just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms, man it all looks the same.” – Fly over States, Jason Aldean
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
  • “You can fly.” — Peter Pan
  •  “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan.’
  • Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane –John Denver.
  • “Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.” – Felix Baumgartner.
  • “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo Da Vinci.
  • “But when I’m way up here, it’s crystal clear. That now I’m in a whole new world with you.” — Aladdin, “A Whole New World”
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  • Life takes off when fear is left on the ground.
  • I’ve been flying to say this to you.
  • Coming down is the hardest thing.
  • Running to the boarding gate is my favorite workout.
plane quotes for Instagram
  • You ever see a plane in the sky and think, I don’t care where you’re going, just take me with you?
  • Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
  • The only aisle I want to be walking down is on a plane.
  • Big blue sky’s like a swimming pool, big fluffy clouds like a feather bed.
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Iain Salter

Founder & Editor of The Road Trip Expert

Iain founded The Road Trip Expert in 2019 and continues to manage the website to this day. The inspiration to start the blog came during an extensive road trip around Europe with two friends that spanned several months and involved over 25,000km of driving. He first developed a passion for backpacking in 2014 and has had the pleasure of exploring over 60 countries.

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