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Coronavirus travel: How the pandemic will change the way we fly

May 22, 2020 hans

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Coronavirus work: COVID-19 could change the entire notion of offices as companies eye office rental savings

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 hans

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Don’t expect business travel to bounce back this year— but don’t count it out altogether

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 hans

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Susan Lichtenstein was attending an industry event, aptly named the Business Travel Show, in London at the end of February. By the last day of the conference, the novel coronavirus that had emerged from Wuhan, China, in late December had become the main point of conversation. By the time she reached Heathrow Airport to head home to Palm Beach, Fla., social distancing—before it entered the international lexicon—was already in action as she describes a scene … Read More

A World War II Bomb Has Shut Down a Central London Airport

March 24, 2020 hans

London’s only central airport, London City, was closed Monday with all flights in and out cancelled, thanks to the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb nearby.

Construction workers found the bomb in King George V Dock, which is a stone’s throw away from the end of the London City Airport runway, on the River Thames. After they reported it to the Metropolitan Police in the early hours of Sunday morning, the airport was shut. It remained closed on Monday.

The police set up a 214-meter (702-foot) exclusion zone so they could deal with the bomb without endangering the … Read More

How the Ultra Wealthy Say ‘I Love You’

March 23, 2020 hans

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