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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives by helicopter to open the 54th Le Bourget International Paris Air Show, the world's largest. IMAGES
Paris, Sep 29 (EFE).- (Camera: Ángel Calvo) Air France presented on Wednesday the first Airbus aircraft of the A220 model that it will incorporate into its fleet and that from the end of October will be used for flights between Paris and various European cities, starting with Madrid, Barcelona, ??Berlin, Milan and Venice.FOOTAGE OF THE PRESENTATION. SOUNDBITES OF AIR FRANCE CEO BENJAMIN SMITH; AND THE FRENCH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORTATION, JEAN-BAPTISTE DJEBBARI.Translation:Air France CEO Benjamin Smith:"It is good news for us, really good news. The announcement made by the States two weeks ago of the opening of their borders. It was expected for the month of July but it is good news. During the summer we had strong demand in Europe, higher than that of 2019 in some countries around the Mediterranean. But during the third quarter, we had only 65% ??of our offer and for the fourth quarter it will be practically the same".French Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari:"It is a new aircraft in the Air France fleet that arrives at a particular time. It is a time of recovery but the crisis continues and above all a time when the aeronautical sector has to meet environmental objectives. This aircraft participates in this spirit of reconquest and credibility of the collective commitments that we have assumed for the decarbonization of aviation. It is an aircraft that generates less noise, that pollutes less. It is the appropriate aircraft for this reconquest operation in the post-crisis world. "
For some wealthy Americans, a stamp just won't cut it as a ballot-delivery device: they're determined to cast their votes in person. According to Business Insider, some wealthy voters are chartering private planes to get to the polls in their home state on Election Day. Private jet charter company evoJets says at least four customers have booked flights specifically to vote, and all of those are headed to swing states. Two of the chartered trips are to Florida, which has 29 electoral votes. Two jet-setters booked flights from popular quarantine getaways to get to their swing states. One is flying from Colorado to Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes. Another is headed from Wyoming to Ohio, which has 18 electoral votes. Even for a same-day round trip, such journeys can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
A plane gets a water salute as it becomes the first to take off from the Orly airport south of Paris after it had shut down on March 31 amid the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Passengers of Air France Boeing travelling from Paris to Shanghai spent three days in Irkutsk after a mechanical issue caused smoke to fill the cabin. On the next day, the passengers were supposed to fly to China on a backup plane, but the second plane couldn't take off due to the failure in the plane's hydraulic system. The passengers were re-settled in hotels. Another reserve plane arrived in Irkutsk on Tuesday night (23:00 GMT+3) and 282 passengers, as well as 18 cabin crew, successfully departed on Wednesday morning.
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