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United just ordered $1 billion worth of eVTOLs from a startup that aims to launch intra-city passenger flights in 2024February 10, 2021 at 11:24 AM United Airlines and Archer
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United Airlines and eVTOL startup Archer Aviation announced a $1 billion partnership and aircraft order.
United will buy 200 aircraft to be used for eco-friendly airport transportation.
Archer Aviation is also going public via a special-purpose acquisition company.
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Will I be ready?
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Will my hands be steady when I lay down my fears, my hopes, and my doubts?
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Like UK Covid live: Boris Johnson says further vaccinations likely to be needed in autumnFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:27 AM Latest updates: PM says people will have to ‘get used to the idea of vaccinating, and then re-vaccinating in the autumn’Too soon to book holiday in UK or abroad, says Grant ShappsCovid border rules not in ‘top bracket’ of nations, says StarmerThreat of jail term for UK travellers who hide journeys ‘disproportionate’UK government announces £3.5bn fund to fix cladding on high-risesGlobal coronavirus updates – live 2.17pm GMT Boris Johnson will hold a press conference at No 10 at 5pm, Downing S...Tags: Travel, Politics, UK, UK News, Infectious Diseases, House Of Commons, Boris Johnson, Pmqs, Downing Street, Keir Starmer, Grant Shapps, Robert Jenrick, Coronavirus, Stephen McPartland 38 people like this. Like Small Company: Big Technology. Compete Against The Big Boys From Your Garage | By Thomas MagnusonFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:40 AM Pepperdine Graziago Professor John Mooney, Academic Director, Executive Doctorate of Business Administration and Associate Professor at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School in conversation with Thomas Magnuson (MBA '89) at January 2021's "Graziadio Day Around the World: Europe."Tags: Travel, Business Administration, Thomas Magnuson, John Mooney, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, Pepperdine Graziago 109 people like this. Like #Qatar Petroleum expands trading as rivals "punch above weight" | ReutersFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:22 AM Qatar Petroleum expands trading as rivals "punch above weight" | Reuters Qatar Petroleum (QP) aims to build a trading desk to rival oil majors and trading houses and to help smooth out spot gas price spikes, the chief executive of the world’s largest LNG producer told Reuters.Saad al-Kaabi said in an interview that while state-owned QP would still chiefly use long-term price contracts as it expands its production, spot volumes for trading would represent about 5-10% of volumes sold.Kaabi said bo...Tags: Travel, Asia, Reuters, Rupert Neil Bumfrey, Qatar Petroleum, Kaabi, Reuters Qatar Petroleum QP, Reuters Saad al Kaabi 6 people like this. Like NMC says advisers appointed to explore sale of #UAE, #Oman business | ReutersFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:19 AM NMC says advisers appointed to explore sale of UAE, Oman business | Reuters NMC Group said on Wednesday it had hired Perella Weinberg Partners and Resonance Capital to advise on the potential sale of its healthcare business in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.The sale process will run in parallel with the ongoing restructuring discussions with NMC’s lenders, it said.NMC, founded in the 1970s, became the largest private healthcare provider in the UAE but ran into trouble after short-seller Muddy...Tags: Travel, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Uae, Reuters, NMC, UAE Oman, Rupert Neil Bumfrey, Reuters NMC Group, Perella Weinberg Partners and Resonance Capital 4 people like this. 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Journalists around the world are being killed, imprisoned, and harassed for reporting the news and revealing injustice.
The Biden administration's promise to declassify a report on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi is an important step for the protection of journalists.
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