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...Comac, China’s state-backed aerospace champion whose first single-aisle C919 commercial flight took to the skies last year, has begun to emerge as the first real threat in decades....
...British Columbia’s Sea to Sky Country is the region around a stretch of Highway 99 spanning around 113km from Whistler to West Vancouver, taking in the small town of Squamish at its middle and bound by mountain...
...“That was the trigger,” Hansen said. “Suddenly everyone realised the market was set to keep going higher in the short term.”...
...Airline safety has faced renewed scrutiny in China since last March, when China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735, a Boeing 737 carrying 132 people, crashed in the southern Guangxi region, killing all on board...
...The Cameron clan has lived on the same site in Oban, the unofficial capital of the West Highlands, since 1502....
...Sky is cutting 1,000 jobs as it shifts from satellite dish services towards digital streaming....
...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...The $110bn airline maintenance market is in rude health as airlines struggle to keep planes in the sky to meet surging passenger demand....
...It came just two months after Anglo-US start-up ZeroAvia had achieved a successful test flight of a smaller propeller aircraft partially powered by hydrogen fuel cells, in skies over Gloucestershire, south-west...
...For nearly two years during the pandemic, those skies were unusually quiet....
...“The liberal democratic west is objectively weaker and less confident about its democratic values. We have really lost our resolve....
...Sky-high stakes A government lawsuit claiming JetBlue’s $3.8bn takeover of Spirit Airlines would harm competition comes as a big test for the US crackdown on airline consolidation, Bloomberg reports....
...But the geese made a brave sight as they wheeled in the sky. In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...It’s simple maths: more planes in the sky means more SAF required.”...
...The pandemic had obliterated airlines’ demand for jets, even as Boeing continued to lose billions from the worldwide grounding of the 737 Max following two fatal crashes....
...A shortage of air traffic controllers on both sides of the Atlantic could hit airlines’ post-lockdown recovery....
...So off I went, wandering through ochre rooms half-open to the watercolour skies....
...I was struck by this when I visited artist James Turrell’s Irish Sky Garden, a monumental piece of land art/sculpture at the Liss Ard estate in West Cork, Ireland....
...Still, global airlines are hoping for a better summer than last year after spending to boost operational resilience....
...He pauses while looking at Red Sky in the Morning, one of Hodgkin’s final paintings....
...Sending modern fighter jets would be a demonstration of the west’s commitment, said Yuriy Sak, adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister....
...By the time they returned to the Four Seasons in October, an autumnal sun hung low in the sky. Black was first to speak: “I would like very much to put this behind both of us....
...Southwest trades contracts linked to West Texas Intermediate or Brent crude oil as a proxy for jet fuel....
...How the west would respond to an attack on Nato is hard to predict. Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered....
...And despite repeated offers of support from the west, less than half the financial aid pledged has actually reached Kyiv, according to new analysis....
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