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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
charter flight
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It deals with the occasional situation when a holiday party arrives on a charter flight and claims asylum enbloc.

Usage examples of "charter flight".

She assured him that American Airlines would do everything possible to get him on the very first available seat to Atlanta and that American would be delighted to call ahead and arrange a charter flight for him if there was nothing available on Southern to take him from Atlanta to Dothan.

His connection with the Americans at Malamusk was too important to mess about with just for the sake of squeezing in a charter flight for someone he'd never heard of before.

I shall take the nine-oh-five charter flight this morning to Chengdu and change planes there for Lhasa.

A charter flight to London, with the last of the winter season tourists to Moscow.

He's telling the Ghost when the charter flight will be leaving Fuzhou and when and where to expect it at the Nagorev military base outside of St.

Now I was having a final debriefing at police headquarters, while a charter flight stood by to take me back to the City of the Moon.

There was a duty roster upon which my name appeared with the utmost regularity and a notice typed in red capitals to the effect that anyone who failed to take the aircraft's documents with him on a charter flight would get the sack.

Northern Air Services regretted the delay to their charter flight two-nine-zero from Dusseldorf.

John's by charter flight at dawn - weather permitting - and a further supply would be flown from Montreal to Gander.

A second message told me that suitable syringes existed only at the Bronx Zoo and at the Vancouver Aquarium, and that both institutions had been asked to air express their syringes to Gander, from which point another charter flight would ferry them to Burgeo in the morning.

The charter flight is due to arrive at three, and we must get back to Nairobi before dark.