overflight
noun
over·flight ˈō-vər-ˌflīt 
: a passage over an area in an aircraft
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Within this corridor of international waters and airspace, all states and their vessels enjoy freedoms of navigation and overflight and all internationally lawful uses of the sea and air. 
Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Aircraft do not have an analogous right to overflight of the territorial sea. Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Kyiv still possesses enough longer-range air-defenses to deny its deep air space to direct overflight by Russian aircraft. David Axe, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Air corridors between parts of Europe or North America and Asia stretch across Russia, generating overflight fees. Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022 In one prominent example, legislators and environmental groups have struggled with the FAA and NPS for nearly two decades to establish overflight rules in the Grand Canyon. Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2020 Because overflight rights are negotiated between nations rather than individual airlines, Russia and Finland secured an agreement only in 1994, two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022 The ban will have financial impact for the airlines, but also for Russia, which charges international airlines hundreds of millions of dollars every year for overflight rights. John Walton, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022 By analyzing 70 years of satellite and overflight images, and applying a machine-learning model, scientists have determined that northwestern Alaskan fires have a lasting effect. Eric Roston, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021 See More
Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Aircraft do not have an analogous right to overflight of the territorial sea. Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Kyiv still possesses enough longer-range air-defenses to deny its deep air space to direct overflight by Russian aircraft. David Axe, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Air corridors between parts of Europe or North America and Asia stretch across Russia, generating overflight fees. Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022 In one prominent example, legislators and environmental groups have struggled with the FAA and NPS for nearly two decades to establish overflight rules in the Grand Canyon. Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2020 Because overflight rights are negotiated between nations rather than individual airlines, Russia and Finland secured an agreement only in 1994, two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022 The ban will have financial impact for the airlines, but also for Russia, which charges international airlines hundreds of millions of dollars every year for overflight rights. John Walton, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022 By analyzing 70 years of satellite and overflight images, and applying a machine-learning model, scientists have determined that northwestern Alaskan fires have a lasting effect. Eric Roston, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1950, in the meaning defined above