"We've got a chartered flight heading to Bahrain that's going to have some fans on it, " he said.

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An airline can simply refer delayed passengers to either their tour operators - in the case of a chartered flight - or even to their travel insurers.

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The two journalists were issued with a special pardon after former US President Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang, and returned to Los Angeles on a chartered flight with Mr Clinton.

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It will arrive in the island on a specially chartered British Airways flight, coming in from Guernsey where it will have spent the morning.

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Loganair has put on an extra flight between Aberdeen and Shetland on Saturday and retailer Tesco chartered a Hercules transporter plane to fly supplies to the islands to restock empty shelves.

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