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Qantas officially opens Engineering Academy in Brisbane, welcomes first batch

Qantas officially opens Engineering Academy in Brisbane, welcomes first batch

Qantas officially opened its Engineering Academy in Brisbane on January 20, 2025, and welcomed the first batch of 30 students. The Qantas Group said the Academy will train the next generation of aircraft engineers through a training program developed by Qantas and Aviation Australia. The program is designed to increase the number of apprentices that […]

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GACA to showcase aero investment opportunities at WEFRunway Girl

GACA to showcase aero investment opportunities at WEFRunway Girl

The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of Saudi Arabia will host an investment showcase including two high level panel discussions at Saudi House on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos next week. The investment showcase will highlight projects and incentives to unlock more than $100 billion of investment into the

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MGM Grand Announces $300 Million Room And Suite Remodel

MGM Grand Announces $300 Million Room And Suite Remodel

MGM Grand Hotel & Casino is revealing details surrounding its $300 million remodel encompassing all of the hotel’s 4,212 rooms and suites within its main tower. The transformation, which is slated for completion in December 2025, is set to enhance the overall guest experience with modern, sophisticated design elements inspired by the flair of the

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49% Under Construction at Q3 2024

Aimbridge Reaches Agreement With Lenders to Right Size Balance Sheet and Significantly Strengthen Financial Position

PLANO, Texas – Aimbridge Hospitality, a leading, global hotel management company and the world’s largest third-party hotel operator, today announced that it has entered into a Restructuring Support Agreement with overwhelming support from its first and second lien lenders and its existing sponsor that would right-size the Company’s capital structure by converting more than $1.1

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OR Tambo ensures jet fuel supply despite Natref refinery setback

OR Tambo ensures jet fuel supply despite Natref refinery setback

Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) confirms sufficient jet fuel supply at OR Tambo International Airport (Ortia) for January, despite the Natref refinery fire impacting national production. Ortia has 27.1 million litres of jet fuel available, enough for approximately 7.6 days based on a daily usage of 3.6 million litres. The industry is working collaboratively to

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Africa: Billionaire Wealth Surges By $2 Trillion in 2024, Three Times Faster Than the Year Before, While the Number of People Living in Poverty Has Barely Changed Since 1990

Africa: Billionaire Wealth Surges By $2 Trillion in 2024, Three Times Faster Than the Year Before, While the Number of People Living in Poverty Has Barely Changed Since 1990

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week. Sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now derived from inheritance, monopoly power or crony connections, as Oxfam argues that “extreme billionaire wealth is largely unmerited.” Richest 1 percent in the Global

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German prosecutors: Magdeburg Christmas market car ramming not a terrorist attack

German prosecutors: Magdeburg Christmas market car ramming not a terrorist attack

Six people died and more than 300 were injured when a Saudi-born doctor drove a car into a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in December. ADVERTISEMENT A car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg — which left six people dead shortly before Christmas — will not be investigated

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Prime Video Taps Amazon Music's Keisuke Oishi to Head Japan Operations

Prime Video Taps Amazon Music’s Keisuke Oishi to Head Japan Operations

Prime Video has named Keisuke Oishi as its new country manager for Japan, effective Jan. 20. The veteran Amazon executive, who most recently served as director and general manager of Amazon Music Japan, will report to Gaurav Gandhi, VP of Prime Video Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He replaces Kodama Takashi. Oishi brings a

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Pope Francis Slams Trump's Deportation Plan, Makes TikTok Appearance

Pope Francis Slams Trump’s Deportation Plan, Makes TikTok Appearance

Pope Francis had quite a busy weekend. In a rare TV interview, he slammed President-elect Donald Trump’s call for the mass deportation of immigrants in the U.S. as a “disgrace.” He also made his first appearance on TikTok, which was briefly banned in the States on Sunday, to promote his new autobiography “Hope.” The 88-year-old

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