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Miguel Praga

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Ucrania reanudará los vuelos comerciales en 2025

✈ In 2025, Lviv (Leópolis) will be the first city in Ukraine to resume normal commercial flights, following negotiations with European aviation authorities and major insurers. Insurers agree to reopening if deemed safe by regulators. Lviv's airport, near the Polish border, features two terminals and handles up to 3,000 travelers per hour. Ukrainian President Zelensky supports the riskier reopening of Kiev's Boryspil Airport first.
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El nuevo A321XLR de Iberia visto por todos los ‘frikis’

✈ Iberia's Airbus 321XLR flight from Madrid to Boston was filled with aviation enthusiasts documenting their experience online. Michael Goldstein from Forbes noted it could carry 182 passengers with 60% larger luggage bins compared to JetBlue. Mateusz Maszcznski highlighted the crew's small workspace and compared seat density with JetBlue, mentioning Iberia's 24 Business against 14 and 114 Economy against 168 seats. Tom Boon praised the 30-inch seat pitch, 4-inch recline, and in-seat entertainment. Chris Sloan commended Iberia's onboard service, but noted longer boarding times and limited lavatories. The in-flight entertainment featured over 250 movies, and the Panasonic Avionics system provided quality Wi-Fi and maps.
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Un A380 vuela 300 horas con una herramienta suelta en el motor

✈ An Airbus A380 from Australian airline Qantas flew for over 290 hours with a forgotten tool in one of its four engines. On December 6, during a routine inspection at Los Angeles Airport, USA, a 1.25-meter tool used to check a compressor's pressure was left in the outer left engine. After 34 flight cycles and nearly a month later, the tool was discovered during another maintenance session. Despite the tool's deformation from air pressure, no engine damage was found. The early-year incident led to an internal report and staff instructions to prevent similar incidents, which experts deem exceptionally fortunate for not causing engine destruction.
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IAG, Lufthansa y KLM desaparecen de China por el veto ruso

🛩 European airlines' market share in the Europe-China corridor dropped from 55% in 2018 to 82% for Chinese airlines due to the inability to fly over Russian airspace, leading to longer, costlier flights. IAG, Lufthansa, and Air France-KLM struggle to compete on prices as a result. This winter, 18 new routes by Chinese carriers will be launched compared to a decline from European companies. Overall, a 15% capacity increase with 10,000 flights is expected between China and Europe. In Spain, Chinese airlines now hold 100% of the market since Iberia halted its Madrid-Shanghai route in 2020 due to Covid.
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VECI se proyecta como grupo con 12 marcas

📌 Viajes El Corte Inglés (VECI), after a decade of transformation, now boasts over a dozen subsidiaries. It started with Club de Vacaciones in 2015, followed by Tourmundial and Utópica Travel in 2018. In 2021, VECI integrated Logitravel and its related brands, approved by the CNMC in October. Recent additions include Baluma, Passengy, Holiday Clubs, and Muchosol. In 2023, VECI's revenue hit a record €3.305.9 million, a 12.6% increase from €2.935 million in 2022 and 21% more than the pre-Covid figure of €2.731 million in 2019. Profits soared to €49.6 million, quadrupling from €12.2 million in 2022.
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Mura y Aínsa, entre los 55 mejores pueblos del mundo

🏖 UN Tourism, at a meeting in Cartagena de Indias, proclaimed 55 top tourist villages worldwide using criteria like heritage preservation, sustainability, and inclusion. Initially, 260 localities from 60 countries competed. China won the most awards with seven villages, while Spain had two villages listed, one from Aragón and another from Catalonia. Aínsa in Aragón and Mura in Catalonia were recognized for their medieval beauty and conservation. An "upgrade programme" invite was extended to Pals, Gerona. Applications for the next year are now open.
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Boeing disuelve su área de igualdad, diversidad e inclusión

✈️ Boeing, amid internal restructuring, dissolves its diversity, equity, and inclusion department. Sara Bowen, head of the department, exits after five years. The company simultaneously lays off 17,000 employees, including the entire diversity department staff. Boeing also implements new salary agreements: a one-time payment of $12,000 to staff, an immediate 4% salary increase, and an additional raise in February next year.
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Florencia: prohibidas las cajas negras de la vivienda vacacional

🏠 In Florence, black or gray key boxes with numeric keypads are common outside rental homes, but new vacation rentals are now banned as part of a package of urgent measures. The Tuscan city's response to its transformation includes prohibiting tour guides from using loudspeakers. Locals recently protested the key boxes with red crosses. Florence's left-leaning government also seeks to limit short-term rentals to 120 days per year for tourism.
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La vara de medir de los americanos

💸 On November 12, the FAA banned all flights to Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture Airport after a Spirit Airlines aircraft was shot at, with no casualties reported. Five days later, a Southwest Airlines plane at Dallas's Love Field was struck by gunfire at around 8:30 PM, leading to a canceled flight to Indianapolis. No similar flight suspension was enforced at Dallas, despite the confirmed incident by the FAA.
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Investigan por qué un A320 de Vueling aterrizó en una pista todavía en uso

✈ On October 11, at 6 PM in Palma at Son Sant Joan Airport, Netjets Europe's Embraer Phenom 300 (CS-PHG) landed on runway 24 as a Vueling Airbus A320 (EC MGE) entered the same runway for landing, briefly sharing the runway. Spain's CIAIAC is investigating this breach of safety norms to identify errors and prevent recurrence. Such incidents, though common in busy European airports and under specific conditions in the US, are not allowed in Spain.
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