Aviation bosses today lashed out at Boris Johnson’s traffic light scheme for resuming international travel as they warned requiring travellers from ‘green list’ countries to be tested twice will price many people out of holidays abroad. The new traffic light scheme will see countries rated green, amber or red using criteria including vaccination levels, case … Read more
Bill Gates says he buys green aviation fuel, uses solar panels on his homes and eats synthetic meats to reduce his carbon footprint as he stresses the importance of consuming less Writing on Reddit during his 9th Ask Me Anything, the billionaire fielded an assortment of questions about climate change He was asked how the … Read more
Battle over historic British firm Signature Aviation intensifies as co-owner of Gatwick airport gatecrashes Bill Gates’s takeover with counter bid US giant Global Infrastructure Partners is offering shareholders 405p per share in cash It eclipses the 380p per share or £3.2billion offered by a consortium of Gates and Blackstone last week Signature’s board threw its … Read more
Bill Gates throws weight behind £3.2bn takeover of Signature Aviation as bidding war looms for historic British firm By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 8 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 8 January 2021 Bill Gates has thrown his weight behind a £3.2billion takeover of Signature Aviation as a bidding war … Read more
Ugandan boy, seven, nicknamed ‘Captain’ who has flown Cessna three times and whose role model is Elon Musk becomes sensation in his country for his aviation skills 7-year-old Graham Shema has already flown three times on a Cessna 172 The young boy said his dream is to be a pilot and an astronaut, and travel … Read more
An aviation tycoon worth £200million has lost a legal fight against coronavirus lockdown rules after branding the measures the ‘most extreme restrictions on fundamental freedoms in the modern era’. Simon Dolan, 51, was pursuing a claim against Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson over the restrictions. The businessman’s lawyers argued the rules … Read more
Channel Nine weather presenter Lauren Phillips is ‘secretly dating Samantha Armytage’s millionaire jet tycoon ex Paul O’Brien’ – whose clients include Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:42 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 02:43 GMT, 9 November 2020 She announced her divorce from husband Lachlan Spark just one … Read more
Ministers to review airport covid testing scheme, dashing hopes of trial starting as early this week Was hoped trials of systems to cut quarantine times could begin tomorrow But Government sources said ministers were poised to launch a ‘taskforce’ Boris Johnson understood to have asked for a ‘rapid review’ to be conducted By Jason Groves, … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Government shows little sign of having grasped the scale of the aerospace crisis – a betrayal of the industry would cost the country dear for generations to come The Government’s abject failure to get the planes flying again will kybosh ambitions to be an open, free-trading economy post-Brexit Politicians seem to have forgotten … Read more
Aviation’s impact on global warming has doubled in the past two decades, according to a new study. Using computer models, researchers found flying is responsible for about 3.5 percent of humanity’s contribution to climate change, and two-thirds of that is from contrails and other non-CO2 emissions. The team calculates that between 1940 and 2018, the … Read more