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Hopeful travellers charge up private jet cards ahead of restrictions lifting
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Feb 6, 2021
Truckers are trying to avoid the U.K. as Brexit red tape keeps them waiting to get to the continent.
New weekly data highlights the additional costs companies face when trading between Britain and the European Union after U.K. left the single market on Dec. 31. While the two sides agreed not to impose tariffs on goods, so-called non-tariff barriers are nevertheless creating obstacles for business.
Freight firms are shunning the U.K., keeping rejection rates on contracts well above the third-quarter average last week, according to high-frequency data from Transporeon, the global logistics platform. This was at least partly because haulers are being put off by delays the median time truckers spent in lines at Ashford, southeast England, was about 15 hours.
Ryanair offers planes to celebrities as private jets
The budget airline s on-board meals include “fine dining options” labelled bronze, silver, and gold
28 January 2021 • 7:53pm
Ryanair is offering its planes to celebrities, sports stars and other high flyers to offset the impact of the pandemic.
The budget airline is advertising a corporate jet service for groups of up to 60 people on board one of its Boeing 737 jets.
A “value” option is also on offer, with larger groups of up to 189 people able to charter a journey of up to six hours.
Marketing material boasts “fine dining options” labelled bronze, silver, and gold, business website
Pope Francis ‘Pained’ by Wealthy People Fleeing Lockdowns
3 Jan 2021
ROME Pope Francis said Sunday he was “pained” to read of wealthy people taking flights to escape new coronavirus lockdown measures at home.
Following his weekly Angelus message, the pope spoke of the temptation to focus solely on “one’s own interests” or to live hedonistically by seeking only to “satisfy one’s own pleasure,” exemplified by those escaping coronavirus lockdowns.
“I read something in the newspaper that really saddened me,” the pontiff said. “In one country I don’t remember which more than 40 planes took off in a single afternoon to escape the lockdown and go on vacation.”
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