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Ella nunca ha volado en avión, pero ha viajado en tren.

Ella nunca ha volado en avión, pero ha viajado en tren.
She has never flown by plane, but she has traveled by train.
From Lesson 116:Present perfect (he, has, ha)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Ella nunca ha volado en avión, pero ha viajado en tren.

How do we form "has flown" and "has traveled" in this sentence?
We use the present perfect tense to talk about life experiences. It is made of two parts: the helper verb haber (here, ha for "she has") and a past participle. To get the past participle, we take the verbs volar (to fly) and viajar (to travel), drop the -ar, and add -ado to make volado and viajado.
Why do we use en for "by plane" and "by train" (en avión, en tren)?
In Spanish, when talking about modes of transportation, you generally use the preposition en. Even though we say "by plane" or "by train" in English, trying to translate "by" literally as por would sound unnatural here.
The sentence says nunca ha volado. Could I also say no ha volado nunca?
Yes! In Spanish, if a negative word like nunca (never) goes before the verb, you do not use no. But if you put nunca after the verb, you must use a double negative by putting no before the verb. Both nunca ha volado and no ha volado nunca are perfectly natural and mean exactly the same thing.
Why is the word ella left out in the second half of the sentence?
Because we already established that ella (she) is the subject in the first half of the sentence, we do not need to repeat it. The verb form ha combined with the context makes it completely clear that we are still talking about her.

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