For its part, the FAA has admitted that it uses airspace inefficiently, responds slowly and clumsily to bad weather, and suffers from procedures that vary from one region to the next.
A spokesperson says: "Anything that uses airspace is subject to the rules of the air, even if it is 'foot-launched', like a hang-glider, or indeed a jetpack.
Senior military officers are deeply concerned that US or Nato forces using Pakistani airspace for a military strike on Afghanistan will be able to glean information about the nuclear programme.
But perhaps most immediately troubling to Washington is his decision to ban American drug surveillance flights from using Venezuelan airspace.
Our flights are not using Ukrainian airspace, with the exception of our once-a-day service between Heathrow and Kiev.
In an interview in Baghdad, Amri denied that the Iranians were using Iraqi airspace to send weapons.
Nats has just applied to the CAA for permission to increase its charges to aircraft using British airspace until 2005.
In fact, the Bush administration has been working with Turkmenistan since Sept. 11, using its airspace for flights to Afghanistan, and shipping United Nations aid through its territory.
Last week, Nats applied to the civil aviation authority for permission to increase charges on airlines using UK airspace and part of the Atlantic.
Turkey also cancelled joint military exercises with Israel and banned some Israeli military flights from using Turkish airspace – though Davutoglu called this "a blanket ban".
