News and notes from around the interweb:
- Man chased estranged wife through the airport with a fake bomb that never ends well.
- Bahrain will sink a Boeing 747 as the centerpiece of an underwater theme park opening in August. It’s a Boeing 747-236B originally delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 1982 and ultimately retired by Cargolux.
#Bahrain is launching the world largest underwater dive site today
in partnership with the private sector, local dive companies and clubs. pic.twitter.com/FnpAFYPkSM— Maram AlMahmeed|مرام (@malmahmeed) June 10, 2019
- Kenya Airways, already 48.9% owned by the Kenyan government, proposes becoming a unit of a state-owned holding company ‘like Emirates’. Delta, which partners with Kenya Airways, will no doubt think this is fine.
- Use Google Translate to read this interview with Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith on the recent power plays and management dynamics within the company.
- Inside Delta’s focus city strategy I was first to tell you that Austin would become a focus city a year ago.
- Emirates is introducing new restricted business class fares that don’t come with lounge access although you can still get into their lounges based on elite status.
Dutch interview. Very interesting indeed.
The article is in Dutch, not Norwegian. For a travel blogger your geographic illiteracy is an embarrassment.
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