Many of the players are involved in The Open in Kent next week and a charter plane for about 30 of them has been arranged, but when it leaves has yet to be determined.

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Blue Star is a broker between people who want to charter a plane or helicopter and owners or managers of some 4, 000 aircraft.

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Rob Dore, owner of Private Jet Hire, said Mr Mills had made an enquiry with the firm to charter a plane from Doncaster Robin Hood Airport to Exeter but no booking was taken.

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He was only 15 when, the night after Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that 1959 Iowa charter-plane crash, he was recruited to somehow help make the show go on at the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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In May 1998, a Peruvian air force plane, a Boeing 737, on charter to an American oil company crashed near the Ecuadorian border, killing more than 80 people.

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According to Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) charter flight customers can refuse to take a seat on a plane that has been delayed more than 12 hours, claiming a full refund.

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