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Monday, 11 January 2021

The Telegraph

• Indonesia plane crash: black boxes located amongst wreckage

Times Online

• Stobart Group hopes Esken name change will take off [Subscription]With some brands what you see is not necessarily what you get. Eddie Stobart, for instance, is the most identifiable and best-loved trucking brand in the land with its own fan club of motorway spotters.

Daily Express

• Kate Middleton and Prince William ALWAYS broke royal travel rule – lockdown stopped them!KATE MIDDLETON and Prince William have been breaking key royal protocol while flying with their children.

Mail Online

• Boeing plane was likely intact until it smashed into sea'We don't know for sure, but if we look at the debris, they're scattered in an area that is not too wide,' Nurcahyo Utomo said on Monday.

This is Money

• Virgin Atlantic in scramble for emergency fundsMajority owned by founder Sir Richard Branson, Virgin is finalising a deal to raise up to £70million by selling and leasing back two Boeing Dreamliners after completing a rescue plan in September.
• Airlines locked in battle over landing slots for this summerBefore the pandemic, airlines had to use their takeoff and landing slots for 80 per cent of each flying season or forfeit them under the so-called 'use it or lose it rule'.

Belfast Telegraph

• Indonesia intensifies search for crashed plane’s black boxesThe search for the black boxes of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified on Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea.

Bristol Live

• Appeal to allow Bristol Airport expansion starts todayMembers of the public are being urged to submit their views ahead of public inquiry this summer

London Evening Standard

• Heathrow demands business rates relief as passenger numbers plunge through Covid-19 restrictionsHeathrow's chief executive today ramped up his calls for relief on business rates to be extended from pubs and retailers to airports as he reported on another Covid-decimated month for his industry.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Birmingham Airport calls for more clarity on testing rulesPlans to require international travellers to test negative for coronavirus before arriving to England and Scotland have been welcomed – but do not go far enough, Birmingham Airport said today.

C.N.N.

• Black boxes located at Indonesian airliner crash site as human remains recoveredRescuers searching for the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed into the ocean with 62 people on board on Saturday say they have located the plane's black box flight recorder and obtained communications data.

New Civil Engineer

• Gatwick second runway would require capacity restrictions at other airportsPlans to bring Gatwick Airport’s second runway into regular use would only be possible with a government intervention to prevent other airport expansions, according to the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF).

EIN News Subscription

• Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air flight disappears minutes after take-off from Jakarta | What we knowA Sriwijaya Air plane carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Saturday. The plane was en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province when it lost contact.
• Indonesia Air Boeing 737 crash site foundIndonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.