81.   Observers said the impending chartered flights have renewed hopes of restoring direct air links, which had been stalled for political reasons.

82.   The daily said Bowers informed his wife of the situation by satellite phone after arriving in Afghanistan on a chartered flight from Turkey.

83.   The decision to use a chartered flight came as unions at Air France objected to the state-owned civilian carrier being involved in the deportation of the immigrants.

84.   The flight was operated as a commercial chartered flight and needed special landing permits from North Korea in the absence of direct aviation links, they said.

85.   The group left on a chartered Garuda flight from nearby Batam Island Thursday, the report said.