chartering

Example Sentences

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The Houston-based company plans to close its Mesa Gateway Airport operation in Arizona, which served as its hub for chartering deportation flights, on Jan. 27.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

The team has to coordinate between two airline partners, chartering a Boeing 757 from Delta and a Boeing 737-800 from United, to handle travel parties of sometimes more than 100 in all.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

A un-named individual is chartering a plane for the repatriation.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Before the war, the sheikh was sometimes criticized for his lavish choices, like chartering a private jet to attend the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

I was near being delayed a day at Calais, France, but succeeded in chartering a boat to take me over the Channel.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis