British Airways cancels thousands of flights through the month of July
Britain’s biggest airline told airport slot authorities that it was cancelling more than 650 flights from Heathrow and Gatwick in a bid to avoid repeating last month’s overcrowding and chaos, according to The Telegraph.
“As the entire aviation industry continues to face into the most challenging period in its history, regrettably it has become necessary to make some further reductions.”
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Airlines and airports across Britain are dealing with a staffing crunch.
Layoffs and redundancies made during the pandemic have come back to bite air operators as demand for air travel surges.
On Monday, EasyJet’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew, resigned from his post amid thousands of cancellations in June.
EasyJet’s Chief Operations Officer resigned on Monday following thousands of EasyJet flight cancellations leading up to July
An EasyJet spokesperson said that Mr Bellew had “resigned to pursue other business opportunities”.
On Sunday, footage emerged of an EasyJet flight being escorted by a Spanish Air Force jet.
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Elon Musk has announced that companies and brands will have to pay $1,000 per month – plus an additional $50 per sub-account – to get verified check-marks on Twitter
The new pricing falls under the new Twitter Blue for Business service.
Within the next few months, only paying Twitter customers will have verified status.
Twitter has stacked on $12.5 billion in debt, and this move hopes to increase subscription revenue to meet Musk’s obligations.
Advertisers halted spending on Twitter after the takeover, but Twitter has since announced partnerships with two brand-safety vendors to win back marketers.
Musk also announced that Twitter would start sharing ad revenue with creators for “ads that appear in their reply threads”, but didn’t provide further detail.
The Bank of England and Britain’s finance ministry think the UK is likely to need to create a central bank digital currency later this decade.
“On the basis of our work to date, the Bank of England and HM Treasury judge that it is likely a digital pound will be needed in the future,” the Telegraph quoted BoE Governor Andrew Bailey and finance minister Jeremy Hunt as saying in the joint report.
“It is too early to commit to build the infrastructure for one, but we are convinced that further preparatory work is justified,” the Telegraph quoted the report saying.
The BoE declined to comment on the Telegraph article, but said a joint consultation on CBDC issues would be published shortly.
A government source said the report would be published next week.
BoE Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe is due to give a speech on Tuesday to update the finance industry on the BoE’s CBDC work.