Ikea is chartering planes for customers in remote northern Norway who petitioned the company to build a store near them.

　　The special flights start next month and will bring people from the north to a store at Trondheim for about￡50. Ikea buses will pick them up from the airport and take them to the store and then take them back later for the return flight.

　　Customers buying items too big to carry home with them will be given special discount so they can have them delivered.

　　Some 6,000 people from Tromso, Harstad and Bodo signed the petition asking Ikea to build a northern store.

　　The first flight will take off from Bodo on November 8, followed by a departure from Harstad the following week and Tromso on the 22nd. Shoppers who book their flights early will get their money back in the form of Ikea tokens.