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...The group shrugged off a series of air controller strikes in France during the first quarter, saying these had cost it less than €10mn at its main Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris....
...The fact that drone controllers are distanced from their strikes shielded them from some pressures, but the lack of context and the horror of sometimes killing the wrong person due to faulty intelligence...
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...“Speedbird One, contact London Control 119.780” says Heathrow’s tower controller, appending a quick “nicely done!”...
...More than 900 Indians died of Covid-19 on Sunday, the highest single day toll since early October....
...The repeated Peronist outbursts against the fund have taken a toll in Washington — the US is the fund’s biggest shareholder....
...The victory exacted a toll. Ms Nelson’s daily practice during the early stage of the crisis was to grab her laptop upon waking and work straight through the day from bed....
...On Friday, flights in the New York area were disrupted because of air traffic controller staffing shortages, underscoring the risks to the country’s transport network....
...The work takes its toll on bodies too....
...Arguably, America’s principal offensive weapon is the drone, firing on targets thousands of miles from where its controller safely sits....
...It remains the highest death toll from an aircraft accident. Here, the KLM co-pilot saw the danger but, when the captain responded irritably, did not mention it again....
...Catarina Gil Fernandes, a 35-year-old financial controller, recently took over the management of two large estates in the Alentejo region south of Lisbon....
...media:* From The FT, - Banks in line to teach in UK schools - Labour to focus on train fare squeeze - Poor sales put pressure on M&S chief - STJ partner receives 12-fold pay boost - Wet summer takes toll...
...The toll is expected to rise. Four Chinese nationals and two Lebanese were among the victims, and the US embassy in Abuja was following up reports that the pilot was an American....
...After the data is sent to controllers using a private cloud-computing network, the controllers can then manage flows by dynamically adjusting traffic light timings, closing and opening specific routes, and...
...Aviation experts have long complained about Washington’s failure to fund a move to a satellite-based air traffic system from the antiquated radars that controllers still rely on – some situated at the bonfire...
...Hundreds of passengers faced travel delays on Tuesday as Iceland's volcanic ash cloud took its toll on airports in Norway, Denmark and Scotland....
...In fact, at the busiest times of day, the unseen controller is the invisible hand of market mechanisms....
...As voting gets under way, they send text messages containing data on the conduct in their polling station to a toll-free number. A cheat-sheet lists the codes....
...This year, however, the model train manufacturer’s Fat Controllers are likely to be well-fed....
...A growing number of US states and cities are turning to toll roads as a way to tackle worsening congestion....
...Ballmer was unimpressed by the arrangements for projecting his presentation – a button that lit a light in the control box to tell the audiovisual controller to move to the next slide....
...The admission followed a series of serious lapses in which parts fell off aeroplanes and JAL pilots ignored air traffic controllers' instructions....
...According to the United Nations, the Indonesian government has agreed to allow international air traffic controllers to work at the airport in Banda Aceh after repeated complaints over delays....
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