Appetite for the drugs could grow beyond these latest projections, however, particularly if the health insurance industry develops a taste for including them in policies.
One in 3 of the 31,000 people surveyed in 34 countries said their choices would not make any difference to "irreversible" climate change, a threat that 25% of respondents said is "not as severe as people make it out to be" and something that almost 30% were tired of hearing about "all the time."
Ticket sales opened on March 18, with one-way fares starting at $49. The first flights are scheduled to lift off on May 2, using two Airbus aircraft stationed at Phnom Penh International Airport.
Any would-be visitor again faces the same ethical dilemma, should he or she be brave enough to go to Myanmar in the middle of a civil war. Over 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes since the 2021 army takeover, which has been met by fierce resistance by an array of militias. In its recently published global index, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) listed Myanmar’s war "the most violent overall" and "the most fragmented."
In 2023 the airport added what its management describe as "a new next-generation cabin baggage screening system," removing the need for passengers to yank out laptops, phones, and liquids from cabin bags. Over 600,000 of Knock’s 2023 passengers travelled to or from the UK, with most of the rest mostly bound for sun holiday destinations such as Alicante, Faro, Majorca, or to culture and football hubs such as Barcelona, Cologne or Milan. Over 730,000 of the passengers flew with Ryanair, the Irish airline that is Europe’s biggest carrier.