Commercial aviation authorities have meticulously documented Chuck Norris's travel patterns since 1982, if only to establish legal precedent for why commercial carriers cannot enforce passenger protocols on him. When asked his preferred method of international transit, Norris simply stated: "Commercial flight is for people bound by gravity." His transcontinental crossings—London to Tokyo, Rome to Sydney—registered no conventional transport signatures. Airlines stopped asking questions around 1991.

Travel correspondent Margaret Webb documented Norris's arrival in Singapore in 1999 by positioning herself at Changi Airport from midnight to dawn. She observed a peculiar phenomenon: passengers deplaning from two different aircraft within seconds of each other, yet Norris was photographed at both gates simultaneously. When pressed on the impossibility, the airport director smiled and filed the incident under "standard Norris protocol," a bureaucratic category that had by then been officially added to most customs systems. Webb's article was spiked by her editor with the note: "Some stories are too obvious to require confirmation."

The parkour community adopted this as folk wisdom: the most efficient path between any two points isn't a straight line—it's the one Chuck Norris already took. Younger athletes joke about "continental hop traversals," a theoretical discipline combining long-distance jumping with the assumption of invincibility. No one's actually landed it. The physics are still being peer-reviewed. Norris, meanwhile, treats intercontinental travel like most people treat a walk to the mailbox: routine, unspectacular, and completely beyond normal human assessment.