Sentence examples for approve the flight from inspiring English sources

Because neither Duckworth nor O'Hair believed that the headquarters would approve the flight, they decided to proceed without permission.

She is accused of negligence for allegedly approving the flight.

Mr. Obama approved the flights over the weekend, a senior administration official said.

The Security Council never explicitly approved the flights over the zones, and Baghdad considers them a violation of its sovereignty.

But it found that no one at the White House above the rank of Richard A. Clarke, then the White House counterterrorism chief, had approved the flights, and that none had occurred before the morning of Sept. 13, when national airspace reopened.

Officials told AP that president Barack Obama had approved the flights on Monday and that they had began by Tuesday.

The FAA, the board said, had been under pressure to approve the SpaceShipTwo flight within its 120-day period for weighing such applications and had lacked communication with Scaled's staff.

Assuming they approve the increases, pilots and flight attendants will receive additional pay totaling close to $1 billion over three years.

Or why don't they just have a system that checks my passport number to see whether I'm approved for the flight?

Japan's All Nippon Airways became the second carrier to test the 787 aircraft, after aviation regulators approved the resumption of flights.

After a tense delay at the airport getting the flight plan approved, the plane took off for Israel, stopping over in Dakar, Senegal, to refuel.