An international flight is a form of commercial flight within civil aviation where the departure and the arrival take place in different countries.
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The first regular international service in the world was covered by the British Aircraft Transport and Travel, from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome to Le Bourget.
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One of the first flights between two countries was on January 7, 1785, when Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries crossed the English Channel in a balloon.
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Nixon was criticised when she joined her husband, John Becquet, a former Qantas senior executive of crew operations, on the inaugural international flight of Qantas' Airbus A380 airliner from Melbourne to Los Angeles, as guests of Qantas in an all expenses paid, three day trip.
It operated only domestic services until its first international flight from Prague to Bratislava and on to Zagreb in 1930.
On August 17, 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called “20th hijacker” of the September 11, 2001 attacks, was arrested after an instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy became suspicious of him.
The international flight originated in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, Netherlands and made an emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
The city is served by several national air carriers as well as by a direct international flight to Houston via Continental Airlines.