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Saturday, 10 February 2024

Financial Times

• How a US buyout giant's bet on an empty London airport went sourCarlyle is pursuing the owner of London Southend through the courts over a £125mn loan

Mail Online

• Should airlines start weighing passengers? It's right to make fat people pay extra to fly - they're worse than screaming babies, says Roger Lewis. But Marion McGilvary disagrees. Who do YOU agree with? Have your say in our pollThis week it emerged that Finnair is proposing to tackle the extra pounds by weighing its passengers at the departure gate. Humiliating? Undoubtedly.

C.N.N.

• Airline starts weighing passengers at the gateFinnair's new project at Helsinki airport is weighing volunteer passengers at the gate, along with their hand luggage. The pilot scheme is to help the airline better calculate accurate weights of passengers and baggage being loaded onto the plane.

EIN News Subscription

• Transport Minister Eamon Ryan hits back at open letter from Ryanair CEO calling on him to resign … to @EamonRyan following the Transport Minister's continued failure … and claimed, 'other EU airports are now laughing at Ireland … growth for Ireland? Tonight, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan penned … during his time as transport minister have been 'highly …
• European airline asks passengers to weigh themselves before boarding … May. Passengers boarding onto European and long-haul flights … said. Airlines can either use official data from the European Union … , New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, also weighed … sent to the Finnish transport and communications agency later …