UP FR ONT NEW ROUTES: GIBR A LTAR AND JERS E Y
BRITISH AIRWAYS IS SET TO LAUNCH FLIGHTS from London City to Gibraltar and Jersey on June 25. The twice-weekly Embraer E190
services will initially operate as summer seasonal routes, with fares starting from £42 each way to Jersey
and £43 each way to Gibraltar (pictured). The airline already flies to Gibraltar from Heathrow and to Jersey from Gatwick. Both destinations are set to
welcome a flurry of new services this summer – Loganair will launch flights between Newcastle and Jersey on May 28, while Eastern Airways has announced two new routes to Gibraltar from Birmingham and Southampton.
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SAM BOMPAS is co-founder of Bompas and Parr, a London-based creative studio that designs immersive experiences around the world.
HAS TRAVEL INSPIRED YOUR CREATIONS? Aſter travelling to Boscastle in Cornwall to visit the Museum of Witchcraſt and Magic and stay in
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the supposedly haunted Wellington Hotel, we wrote Ghost Stories of Tripadvisor – accounts of strange goings-on in properties registered on the site.
MOST REWARDING TRAVEL EXPERIENCE? Working in food, you oſten get to feast tremendously. Being served a whole cow’s head at Africola in Adelaide was wild.
MOST CHALLENGING? Running around Sao Paulo trying to find liquid nitrogen for a flavour explosion on stage. We borrowed some from a local hospital where someone’s cousin worked. It was an exciting race against time.
HOW ARE YOU ADJUSTING TO THE “NEW NORMAL”? We grind on with diversifying the business in term of locations, (opening a studio in Hong Kong to serve Asia-Pacific), sectors and
the team. Tis was already in train as we prepared for Brexit.
HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC AFFECTED CREATIVITY? It has given our creative practice a real spanking. Tis can be refreshing, too. We’ve looked at techniques to tour shows without sending teams. Our Fountain of Hygiene exhibition on the future of hand sanitisation, which showed in London’s Design Museum last summer, is now at Haw Par Music in Hong Kong, orchestrated without travel.
DREAM DESTINATION? Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the place on the planet most struck by lightning.
INDISPENSABLE TRAVEL GADGET? Taking off and realising you’ve leſt your wallet behind provokes a sense of creeping fear. I wangle my way through it with a
charged phone, excellent network and the Uber app.
IFE PICK? I buy at least a book a day; totally excessive but I endeavour to read them all. Without input, there’s no output.
IS SUSTAINABILITY IMPORTANT TO YOU? It’s crucial for the practice. It has led to projects such as the Butterfly Biosphere in London’s Grosvenor Square in 2019, which looked at the unsung heroes of pollination. Right now, we are most interested in global food security.
WHAT’S NEXT? We’ve reinvented the Benham and Froud brand to make super-luxury jellies that pulsate in time with your heartbeat.
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