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Articles by Peter Campbell
Private jet charter costs from Saudi Arabia soar after Houthi attacks
The cost of chartering a private jet to get in or out of Saudi Arabia has soared after Houthi strikes on the country closed Riyadh’s main...
Flight from Israel diverted after ‘threat’ reported
An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv bound for Vienna had to make an emergency landing in Bulgaria after receiving a threat, the...
‘Inflation will make people poor’: Airlines brace for years of pain
Airlines are braced for years of pain due to growing concerns that customers will not stomach the further price rises needed to offset...
Healey says new Heathrow runway would boost ‘growth’ despite Burnham wavering
John Healey has said a third runway at Heathrow would be an engine for economic expansion, in a sign the UK chancellor sees benefits from...
Rich make millions by flipping private jets
Rich people are making millions of dollars by reselling desirable models of private jets shortly after they receive them, in the latest...
Lufthansa exploring sale of software assets in €1bn deal
Lufthansa is exploring selling some of its software assets in a deal worth close to €1bn as the German airline aims to divest non-core...
Bankers and advisers set for £334mn easyJet payout
Bankers and advisers on Apollo’s £5.7bn takeover of easyJet are set to receive £334mn in fees, making the airline deal one of the City’s...
Lufthansa wins battle to buy stake in Portugal’s TAP airline
Lufthansa has agreed to buy a large minority stake in Portugal’s TAP airline after topping a bid from arch-rival Air France-KLM, in a...
Riyadh defiant as Houthis launch new missile strikes on Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister struck a defiant tone as he opened a major energy conference in Riyadh hours after missiles struck the...
Heathrow needs Burnham green light for runway by end of year, warns boss
Heathrow’s investors will reassess plans to build a third runway if Andy Burnham does not give explicit backing to the ambitious £33bn...
Flydubai co-pilot planned 9/11-style attack on Tel Aviv airport, UAE says
A Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a passenger jet intended to fly it into the terminal at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport “with the...
Airlines sound the alarm as bleak winter looms
Airlines face a mounting crisis in coming months, industry bosses have warned, as persistently high fuel prices force them to cut...
Three Saudis killed in Houthi attack on Riyadh airport
Three Saudi citizens were killed in attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting Riyadh’s international airport, a barrage that prompted...
EasyJet doubles winter flight cuts amid rising costs
EasyJet will cut another 700,000 seats from its winter flight schedule to save on fuel, as the low-cost airline steps up efforts to curb...
Over 100 Riyadh flights cancelled after Houthis target airport
More than 100 flights from Riyadh were cancelled and multiple airlines suspended services on Thursday after the Houthis said they...
The online life of the Flydubai attacker
The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with...
Co-pilot used axe to carry out ‘terrorist act’ on Flydubai flight
The co-pilot of Flydubai Flight 1073 attacked the captain with an axe in the cockpit as he “attempted to carry out a terrorist act”, UAE...
How airlines try to weed out rogue pilots
A decade after a Germanwings co-pilot crashed a plane into the French Alps, the aviation industry is bound by safety procedures designed...
Flydubai scare revives Israel’s hijacking trauma
For Israelis watching the emergency landing of Flydubai flight 1073 on Wednesday, the events of the attack echoed a painful history of...
18,000 feet in 90 seconds: inside Flydubai’s near-catastrophe
Flydubai flight FZ 1073 took off as usual from Dubai International on Wednesday morning at 6.49am local time for Tel Aviv, one of more...
One pilot of Israel-bound flight stabbed the other and tried to crash plane
One pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed the other and attempted to crash the aircraft in an extraordinary brawl that sent...
Burnham’s opposition to Heathrow expansion puts third runway in doubt
Andy Burnham has plunged the plan for a third runway at Heathrow into doubt by privately telling MPs he has always opposed the project,...
UAE halts Iranian flights over US sanctions
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The United Arab Emirates on Thursday said it had halted Iranian flights to and from its airports “until further notice” after the US...
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Ryanair boss tells investors to ‘grow up’ over his €150mn share scheme
Ryanair’s investors who object to Michael O’Leary’s €150mn share rewards scheme need to “grow up”, the combative airline boss has said.
Qantas pushes ahead with new ultra-long flights despite high fuel prices
Qantas has said its nonstop, ultra-long flights will be profitable even with persistently higher jet fuel prices caused by the Iran war.
UK flights disrupted by another air traffic control problem
A fresh outage at the UK’s air traffic control agency caused disruption to some flights on Monday, less than two weeks after a meltdown...
Airlines demand millions in compensation over UK air traffic outage
UK airlines have demanded tens of millions in compensation over last week’s air traffic control meltdown after a report revealed the...
Heathrow expansion incompatible with climate goals, UK government advisers warn
Expanding Heathrow would add as much carbon to the atmosphere as the city of Birmingham and is incompatible with the UK meeting its...
Military jet triggered UK’s latest air traffic meltdown
A military aircraft entering “spurious” flight data into the UK’s air traffic control system led to an outage that caused thousands of...
Iran war forces Dubai to plan underground fuel tanks for new airport
Dubai is drawing up plans to locate parts of its new airport underground to protect it from possible future drone or missile strikes as...
Ryanair investors revolt over Michael O’Leary’s €150mn pay deal
Ryanair has suffered a significant shareholder revolt over a pay deal that could yield a €150mn payout for its boss Michael O’Leary.
Number 10 backs UK air traffic control boss as airlines hit out at disruption
Downing Street has said it has confidence in the head of the UK’s air traffic control system, even as multiple airlines called for an...
Heathrow and Gatwick flights disrupted by air traffic control failure
Hundreds of flights across the UK were grounded on Tuesday after a software issue threw the country’s air traffic control system into...
Missed flight connections double under EU smart border system
The number of people who missed flight connections in Europe doubled over the summer after the rollout of the region’s much-criticised...
Ukraine tells airlines to stop using Russian airspace
Ukraine has warned commercial airlines to stop using Russian airspace as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to increase drone attacks...
Ryanair warns of higher fares as it cuts winter flights
Ryanair has warned that air fares will rise “materially” across Europe next year if oil prices remain high, as it cut winter flights to...
Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm
Abstract Meiotic recombination is a fundamental process that generates genetic diversity by creating new combinations of existing alleles1. Whereas crossovers in humans are well characterized2, the more frequent non-crossovers that lead to gene conversion remain challenging to study. Here we show that single high-fidelity long sequencing reads from sperm can capture both crossovers and non-crossovers, which enables effectively arbitrary sample sizes for analysis from a single male.
Transcript: Airlines in stand-off over cutting ticket prices
This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Airlines in stand-off over cutting ticket prices’ Sonja Hutson Good...
Airlines in ‘stand-off’ over price cuts as jet fuel costs ease
Airlines are locked in a “stand-off” over whether to cut ticket prices as jet fuel costs that soared during the Iran war begin to ease.
Virgin wins approval for cross-Channel trains despite Eurostar complaints
The UK’s rail regulator has thrown out objections from Eurostar that allowing Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to operate Channel...
The new AI super-rich are reshaping the market for jets, yachts and cars
The rapid growth of AI-focused companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic has created a wave of millionaires and billionaires, and they are...
Turkey and Cyprus holiday spots hit by Iran war and last-minute booking
Beach resorts in Turkey and Cyprus are cutting prices to attract tourists, as consumer concern over the Middle East conflict and a...
Burnham warns of ‘tinderbox’ Britain after week of intense heat
Andy Burnham has warned that Britain is a “tinderbox” after a summer of intense heat and drought, but he faced criticism after confirming...
Second UK train derails in less than 24 hours
A second passenger train has derailed in the UK, less than a day after an incident that injured 20 people.
Bird remains found in engine of Ryanair window blowout plane
The Ryanair aircraft in which a passenger was nearly sucked out of a window had suffered four bird strikes in the year leading up to the...
Seoul soars past Dubai as world’s busiest international airport
Seoul’s Incheon airport said it had overtaken Dubai to become the world’s busiest airport for international passengers this year, after...
Probe into UK train derailment after 20 people injured
An investigation into the cause of a train derailment in East Sussex that injured 20 people continued on Friday, as passengers were...
EU border checks double queues at major airports
Peak waiting times at two major European airports have doubled this summer compared with a year ago after the EU’s chaotic rollout of its...
Premium seats, more charges: Apollo’s upmarket plans for easyJet
Apollo intends to accelerate easyJet’s shift upmarket, seek deals with other airlines and find ways to charge passengers for extra...
Rome airport aims to expand before 2033 anniversary of Christ’s death
Rome’s largest international airport is pushing to complete a €9bn expansion plan in time for a major tourism event: the two thousandth...
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