Since March 1998, it has been open to private flights, though at present only a few international ones are allowed customs clearance.
For example, the points earned on a Merrill Lynch card can be redeemed in the form of private flights on a G4 jet.
After the September 11 airline hijacking attacks, restrictions were imposed on private flights and many commercial flights, such as traffic planes and helicopters, crossing big city airspace.
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But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who tabled the urgent question, said emails showed that immigration and customs checks were suspended on some private flights this year.
Mr Green, who was summoned to the Commons on 15 November 2011 to answer Labour's urgent question on the relaxation of UK border controls, insisted that all checks had been "strengthened" for high-risk private flights under a new strategy.
Private aircraft flights are banned over parts of Boston, Washington and New York.
Nurses have been flown in from other Tenet hospitals, and Tenet has launched its own private rescue flights, he said, aided by Coast Guard helicopters.
Carnival said on Friday that it had arranged for a combination of approximately 50 commercial and private chartered flights to fly the 4, 363 Dream guest home from St.
The picture for "general aviation, " which includes private and some corporate flights, is much darker.
The ultimate VIP hot air balloon trip, Royal Balloon offers private 90-minute flights for those who want to experience the views without the chatter and camera-clicks of other passengers.
These days, it's primarily private jet flyers benefiting from the fastest flights.
Adam Twidell, the founder of PrivateFly, an online booking service that has done for the private jet industry what Expedia and Priceline did for commercial flights, has seen a yearly threefold growth since he launched his company in 2007.
Users in the private beta are using it to find deals on textbooks, to book flights and to follow friends.
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Charter flights will begin taking thousands of government dependents, nonessential employees and private American citizens out of Cairo on Monday.
Iraq has now agreed to allow flights by U-2 intelligence-gathering planes, and to inspectors conducting private interviews with Iraqi scientists.
Under the previous Labour government, however, high-risk flights "were missed" and former independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation Lord Carlisle had called private aviation the UK's "soft underbelly", he alleged.
One of a handful of private companies receiving funds from NASA to develop a space taxi system, SpaceX hopes the experience with the cargo flights will help the company reach its goal of carrying astronauts aboard the Dragon.
While flights in and out of Athens airport were cancelled, and some banks and businesses were closed, most private sector workers found ways to reach their work-places.
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