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Sunday, 07 February 2021

The Guardian

• US billionaires vie to make space the next business frontierTechnological advances mean taking humans to play among the stars is just one of the aims of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and a host of eager investorsLater this year Jeff Bezos, the first person to have led a business from nothing to a trillion-dollar valuation, will step down from his job as head of Amazon. But as you'd expect from a tech multibillionaire, his eyes are on a potentially bigger prize: outer space. Bezos will be dedicating more time to a space race between entrepreneur rivals that hopes to push the frontiers of society – and commerce – beyond planet Earth.Having completed its 14th mis...

Times Online

• Rolls-Royce in temporary shutdown [Subscription]Rolls-Royce is to temporarily shut down its factories making jet engines for the first time this summer in a dramatic attempt by the FTSE 100 company to save costs in the midst of the pandemic.

This is Money

• Save our airports Boris... or risk levelling DOWN to a Little BritainWithout action, this Government will be levelling down and creating a Little Britain rather than a global one, airport bosses say.
• Airport chiefs: We need financial support NOWIn a dramatic intervention, the chief executives of Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester Airports Group warn in an article in The Mail on Sunday that they are losing £50million a week.

Bolton News

• Man arrested at Heathrow charged with terror offences A man arrested at Heathrow Airport has been charged with terrorism offences.

Reading Evening Post

• Heathrow departures board shows how hard pandemic has hit airportThere are ordinarily around 1,303 flights a day at the airport, but T5 had no flights scheduled for three-and-a-half hours

EIN News Subscription

• European aviation agency clears Boeing 737 Max to fly again … flight. The European pilots' association ECA welcomed the new airworthiness directive, saying … after the long grounding. Some EU states will have to lift … , and has been cleared by Transport Canada.