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FLIGHT NEWS
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BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced new flights from London Heathrow to
Pittsburgh starting from April 2019. The four-times weekly
service will be with a B787-8 aircraft with three classes
(economy, premium economy and business).
YOU’D BE WISE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT for prowling polar bears if you visit Svalbard, an archipelago 600 miles or so south of the North Pole. Four years ago, British schoolboy Horatio Chapple was tragically mauled to death here by one of these huge beasts. Svalbard, well inside the Arctic Circle and part of the Kingdom of Norway, is very much
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polar bear territory. A group of icy islands, it mostly comprises mountains, fords and glaciers. Te 2,600 humans who live there stick to the few settlements, including the regional centre Longyearbyen. Should they need to commute between settlements, they normally travel by boat or snowmobile. International flights arrive at Svalbard Airport, Longyear. Originally colonised by whalers and fishermen in the 1600s, Svalbard now has three main
industries – coal mining, tourism and scientific research. Tere’s also an intriguing place called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where a million plant seed samples (“of value for food and agriculture, and of importance for research, plant breeding and education”) are stored at minus 18 degrees centigrade. Te seed bank doesn’t have many visitors. But if a plague ever wipes out the planet’s flora, everyone will be beating a path to its door.
CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES is to launch nonstop flights between Shanghai Pudong airport and London Gatwick
from December 7. The service will be three times weekly using an A330-200.
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FLEMISH AIRLINE VLM has suspended all its international scheduled
HYATT ADDS SLH OPTIONS
MEMBERS OF THE WORLD OF HYATT LOYALTY PROGRAMME will soon be able to earn and redeem points on stays at members of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) group. Te collaboration, expected to take effect at the end of the year, will add SLH’s more than 500 independently owned hotels around the world to members’ options, if they book through Hyatt channels. Te agreement doesn’t appear to offer members of SLH’s Invited loyalty programme access to all of Hyatt’s 700 properties. Hyatt relaunched its loyalty programme in February last year, as World of Hyatt, aiming to add more tiers and give members extra ways to accrue status.
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routes from Antwerp, with the exceptions of London City and Zurich. The routes that
have been dropped in the UK are those to Birmingham and Aberdeen. In Germany the
routes that have ceased are those to Cologne, Rostock and Munich.
PRIMERA AIR has suspended all services to
and from Birmingham airport from October, with the low-cost Nordic carrier
blaming “capacity reduction”.
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