Possible Clues:

• Disease picked up, passed quickly
• Passed fast, as time
• Traveled in an airplane
• Travelled through the air
• Soared like an eagle
• Went like the dickens
• Travelled by plane, making audible complaint
• Rushed (by air?)
• Not many-around fifty-went up the chimney, by the sound of it
• Rode an enchanted broomstick, maybe