1.   They had banned all transit flights across the port.

2.   Her solo flight across the Atlantic was a remarkable first.

3.   The flight across the Atlantic was pleasant.

4.   At the end of September, a flight across the channel achieved a notable victory on the issue of airline subsidies for the transport secretary, John Macgregor.

5.   Austrian Airlines and its Lauda Airlines subsidiary took the most aggressive measures, putting armed sky marshals in plain clothes on all flights across the North Atlantic.

6.   Austrian Airlines and its Lauda Airlines subsidiary have taken the most aggressive measures, putting armed sky marshals in plain clothes on all flights across the North Atlantic.

7.   Branson and Lindstrand have made many long-distance balloon flights together, including record-setting flights across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

8.   A flight across the United States looks like nothing so much as a giant geometry lesson.

9.   A United Nations committee tomorrow will discuss modifying sanctions on Iraq to allow flights across its southern border for humanitarian aid and religious purposes.

10.   After an exchange of hard words last week, Tokyo and Washington apparently inched closer toward agreement on an expansion of air cargo flights across the Pacific.