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Thursday, 14 October 2021

Financial Times

• Airlines voice anger over Heathrow’s plan to ramp up landing feesUK airport’s proposal to increase charges by 90% over next five years prompts furious backlash
• Universal Hydrogen to start testing fuel cells in passenger jet Los Angeles start-up quintuples valuation with investors including Tencent and GE Aviation joining

The Guardian

• William Shatner in tears after historic space flight: ‘I’m so filled with emotion’Star Trek actor, 90, says ‘I hope I never recover from this’ after becoming oldest human in space on Jeff Bezos rocket New ShepardThe Star Trek actor William Shatner declared himself “overwhelmedâ€� at becoming the oldest human in space, at the age of 90, during a brief but successful second crewed flight on Wednesday of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship from the west Texas desert.The Canadian, who for four decades played Captain James Kirk, the fearless commander of the USS Enterprise, broke down in tears at the landing site as he described to the private space company’s founder, the Amazon...

The Telegraph

• Passengers stranded as Covid passport crash hits NHS app

Other Regional Press

• Civil Aviation Authority objects to Coventry Airport gigafactory planCoventry Airport would close for good if the gigafactory plan comes to fruition

Other News Sources

• Short-haul flights under 300 miles dominate Europe’s aviation emissions, study findsShort-haul flights that could be replaced with less carbon-intensive transport options make up the majority of Europe’s aviation emissions, a new study has found.
• Aviation industry can’t ‘pin’ Net Zero on governmentsThe aviation industry cannot “pin” the move to Net Zero on governments, but can ask them to help “stoke the fire”, says a vice president of Star Alliance.