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TopicEmirates

Topic: Emirates

Modi expresses ‘deep appreciation’ for Amir of Qatar over return of Navy veterans

Modi met Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during his Qatar visit. Discussions included expanding areas of bilateral cooperation to include space, technology and innovation.

Air India expansion stirs tension as as foreign carriers seek more access to air traffic rights

Dubai's Emirates, Turkish Airlines and Jazeera Airways called for sharp increases in traffic rights to and from India. Vietnam and Indonesia are also in line, a govt official said.

Asked to cut ops, Emirates slams ill-equipped Heathrow for not choosing to ‘plan, invest’. Truce reached

Airports in Europe face holiday deluge, struggle with low resources after employee strikes, pandemic lay-offs.

As Covid hits airlines again, two flights on busy Mumbai-Dubai route fly with single passenger

Oswald Raphael Rodrigues and Bhavesh Javeri were the only passengers on Air India and Emirates flights to Dubai, respectively. In April, Mumbai-Dubai was among busiest international routes.

Emirates’ fleet of jumbo A380 jets could return by 2022 as demand for air travel increases

The Dubai-based airline is the largest customer of the Airbus A380, whose sheer size has made it particularly unviable to maintain during the pandemic.

Covid gives Vistara a chance to grab Emirates, Etihad traffic from India

Vistara expects demand for long-haul direct international flights from India to rise towards the end of the year after travel restrictions lift.

Emirates may cut 30,000 jobs, accelerate retirement of A380 carriers

Since the coronavirus outbreak, airlines across the globe are cutting jobs after being hit with an unprecedented near-total shutdown of travel.

Vistara to add more big planes to take on Emirates, Etihad in India

Vistara is considering ordering more 787 Dreamliner jets from Boeing to add flights to destinations as far away as the US to take on Emirates & Etihad.

Aeroplanes aren’t selling like they used to

Lack of orders from aviation giants like Emirates, Lufthansa and Boeing signal that the world doesn't need that many planes right now.

Vistara goes international, Singapore Airlines picks fight with Emirates for Indian skies

Vistara is a key element of Singapore Airlines’ multi-hub strategy & the launch of international operations pits it against Emirates and Etihad.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.