air corridor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When U.S. and Israeli forces launched the strikes Saturday morning, more than 1,000 aircraft were flying in the region, including scores crossing the crucial air corridor over Iraq.
The major air corridor over the Euphrates Valley in Iraq was empty.
From Barron's
But he cast normalization as already in the works, citing the now three-year-old air corridor for Israeli carriers over Saudi territory and an ambitious plan, announced by Biden this month, to make both countries part of a rail and shipping network that would run from India to the Mediterranean Sea.
From Reuters
The U.N. on Wednesday restarted distributing stockpiled food in the Tigrayan capital Mekelle, Saad said, and it has proposed to authorities to open an air corridor to fly aid directly into Mekelle and the city of Shire.
From Reuters
In all, Operation Air Corridor, as the effort was known to participants, managed to land helicopters at Azovstal seven times during the next two weeks and rescue 85 gravely wounded soldiers, Flint said.
From New York Times
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