Located about 50 miles from San Francisco, San Jose views itself as the capital of Silicon Valley and once boasted of direct flights to foreign capitals like Tokyo, Taipei and Paris.
The Russian program has been chronically short of money and has been able to supply Soyuz crew spacecraft only by selling seats on flights to foreign astronauts and space tourists.
In the beginning, his appeal in the postwar world of rations, gray English skies and declining empire was easy to determine: he offered Britons a glimpse into a privileged world beyond their means, a world of first-class flights to foreign casinos and sybaritic holidays at exclusive Caribbean retreats.
You live enslaved to the whims of your board of directors, the swings of what the stock market does to your shares, the conference calls on the weekends, the 6.00am flights to foreign meetings and the dealing with individuals that live for the corporate kill and machiavelian intrigues.
So when you take the flight to the foreign land, you won't find it strange and will feel comfortable.
They live all over Europe, with some working in mundane jobs as hospital cleaners, waiting to be summoned for the next discount flight to a foreign capital, they said.
Huang Qifan, the mayor of Chongqing, who has kept his job throughout the scandal, was allowed into the consulate for a private meeting with Mr Wang, who later walked out on his own into custody.Mr Wang's flight to a foreign mission was extraordinary for somebody of his celebrity (as a fighter of organised crime) and rank (equivalent to that of a deputy provincial governor).
At the time, Focus news magazine reported that the embassy had complained about the helicopter flight to the German foreign office.
Air Algérie, the state airline, operates flights to many foreign countries and provides daily domestic flights between the country's major cities and towns.
Seven months after much of its north-east coast was destroyed by a tsunami, Japan is attempting to revive tourism by offering free return flights to 10,000 foreign visitors.
