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Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, CatapultThe CommonThe RumpusElectric LiteratureJMWWRiver TeethLiteral Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.

21 July 2022

“At Heathrow they are a bunch of idiots” says Willie Walsh, director general of IATA

Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and former chief executive of British Airways, described the travel restrictions imposed by Heathrow Airport […]
20 July 2022

Flydubai launches direct flights from Dubai to the historical city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan

Air Marakanda, the operator of Samarkand Airport, announced earlier this week the launch of a new route from Samarkand with flydubai, the Emirati government-owned low-cost airline. […]
19 July 2022

Boeing expects demand of over 41,000 new airplanes by 2041

Boeing has released its 2022 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO), the company’s annual long-term forecast, in advance of the Farnborough International Airshow. As international air travel is […]
19 July 2022

Lufthansa cancels another 2,000 summer flights

Lufthansa has announced the cancellation of 2,000 more summer flights to and from the airports in Frankfurt and Munich. It is the third wave of cancellation […]
19 July 2022

Ryanair responds to pilot strikes by threatening to leave Belgium

Another pilot strike is in plan for the end of the week by Ryanair Belgium and France based pilots. The airline new since spring that unions […]
18 July 2022

Airport slot usage to return to normal, with added flexibility

Last week, the European Commission adopted a proposal to allow the airline slot regime to respond more flexibly to unexpected developments in the near future. Demand […]
18 July 2022

World’s best airlines for 2022 according to Airline Ratings

Australia-based aviation safety and product rating agency Airline Ratings has released its annual list of the world’s best airlines. AirlineRatings.com’s editors assessed profitability, fleet age, environmental […]
18 July 2022

Brussels Airport tops list of airports with worst delays across Europe

International travel continues on its upward trend and with it the number of flight cancellations and delays. In what it’s been called “revenge travel”, consumers don’t […]
15 July 2022

Sustainable aviation fuels could bring India’s industry to net-zero

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), India promised to get 50% of its energy from renewable resources by 2030. According to the […]
14 July 2022

MEPs ensure SAF is truly sustainable by banning the use of controversial biofuel feedstocks

Last week, the European Parliament (EP) voted on the ReFuel EU initiative within which it also clarified what constitutes sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and from which […]
13 July 2022

Despite general aviation chaos, Brussels Airport records 168% traffic growth compared to 2021

Despite a general chaos in the aviation industry, several strikes and thousands of cancellations, more than 1.7 million passengers passed through Brussels Airport in June, an […]
13 July 2022

Top 10 European countries by flight cancellations

The aviation industry has been going through a really tough time over the past few months. As the pandemic seems to approach an end and countries […]
12 July 2022

IATA says flights will “without doubt” become more expensive

The aviation industry has been under a lot of pressure recently, culminating in a chaos that has taken over Europe. The recovery of air travel to […]
11 July 2022

French and Belgian Ryanair pilots to strike on 23-24 July

Ryanair pilots based in France and Belgium have announced a strike on 23-24 July, as issues on local labour legislation and minimum wage remain unresolved between […]
11 July 2022

European Airlines welcome Parliament’s vote on ReFuel EU

On Friday, the European Parliament voted in plenary to adopt a large part of the Committee on Transport and Tourism’s report to increase the uptake of […]
11 July 2022

European airlines reimburse consumers for over 500,000 vouchers

Sixteen European airlines have reimbursed consumers for over 500,000 vouchers they had imposed at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission says. The sixteen […]
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