He said the aid would include troops, bases, overflight rights and economic contributions.

It can follow a dogleg course out over the ocean, we don't need to think about overflight rights.

The second is to beef up anti-proliferation efforts, including denying overflight rights.

The US asked countries in the region to deny overflight rights to the airlines.

"There are, as the French president has underlined, customs between allies that we should respect, and among those are overflight rights," he answered.

The C.I.A. arranged for overflight rights over a third country.

But it does need bases and overflight rights in front-line states like Pakistan.

Q Was that - is that a consideration for their overflight rights?

"They didn't even allow overflight rights for American planes," the diplomat said.

Other countries, like Egypt, could serve as staging areas and could grant overflight rights.