Skies - The plural of 'sky'

Have you ever felt the joy of finding out what a word means? I just did.

Continuing my reading of the New York Times article about Corona virus, I have encountered the word"skies" - the plural of 'sky'.

The title reads: " Crisis in China affects the skies : 13.000 flight cancellations."

To be honest, I have come to know that 'skies' is the plural of 'sky' only when I looked the word up in Macmillan Online Dictionary, and the way it is pronounced caused a surprise to me as well.

Knowing that it is the plural of 'sky', it has become clear why the word 'flight' was used there.

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