1.   It also warned travelers that other flights could be rerouted to avoid French airspace.

2.   Japanese commercial flights that ordinarily pass over Taiwan will avoid its airspace for eight days while China conducts missile tests nearby, a transport official said Thursday.

3.   Musharraf had stopped on the way to Nepal to visit longtime ally Premier Zhu Rongji and to avoid Indian airspace.

4.   Olympic airways said it was now using longer and more congested flight routes to avoid Yugoslav airspace, resulting in longer flying time and delays.

5.   The staging operation at Masirah island offers U.S. warplanes a straight shot across the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea to Afghanistan, avoiding Iranian airspace.

6.   Until now the airlines had to take detours to avoid North Korean airspace.

7.   The plane flew over Japan and Russia, avoiding South Korean airspace, CAL officials said.