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International flight

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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All Nippon Airways Flight 60

All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 60 was a Boeing 727-81 aircraft making a domestic commercial flight from Chitose to Tokyo.

Comanche series

Comanche was the first commercial flight simulation based on voxel technology via the company's proprietary Voxel Space engine (written entirely in Assembly language).

Earl Butz

News outlets revealed a racist remark he made in front of entertainer Pat Boone and former White House counsel John Dean while aboard a commercial flight to California following the 1976 Republican National Convention.

Gerroa, New South Wales

On 11 January 1933 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith undertook his historic first commercial flight from Seven Mile Beach to New Zealand.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

Razak was provided with a plane by the Canadian government that took him to Copenhagen, from where he took a commercial flight to Kuala Lumpur.

Maritime Central Airways Flight 315

Maritime Central Airways (MCA) Flight 315 was a non-scheduled commercial flight from London, England to Toronto, Ontario with refueling stops in Reykjavík, Iceland and Goose Bay, Newfoundland.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a commercial flight that crashed near Cayucos, California, United States, on December 7, 1987, as a result of a murder–suicide scheme by one of the passengers.

Pan Am Flight 115

Pan Am Flight 115, operated by Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-121 N712PA (Clipper Washington), was a commercial flight from Paris via London to New York City.

Pinang Kampai Airport

It serves a commercial flight of Sky Aviation from/to Pekanbaru and charter flights from Jakarta-Halim and Pekanbaru for Pertamina and Chevron Pacific Indonesia.

Richard Quest

Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, amongst others an analysis of the U.S. elections as American Quest and the start of the circulation of euro banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of Concorde.

Rolls-Royce Trent 1000

On 26 October 2011, the 787 flew its first commercial flight from Narita to Hong Kong on All Nippon Airways.