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...made up of various nationalities. Even friends don't always agree. There are no closer allies than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...
Among co-workers, he's known as the king of instant messaging. Of the hundreds of employees Kordestani oversees globally, he personally reviews each hire, making sure it passes his airport test: "If I'm stuck in an airport with one of these employees, I want to enjoy my time and have an intelligent conversation...
...Still Fly To Dublin A bad week for Irish budget airline Ryanair: a German court ordered the airline to drop the name Düsseldorf for an airport some 70 km outside of the city. Then a French court determined that a 31.4 million handout Ryanair received from a Strasbourg chamber of commerce to help set up flight services to London was illegal...
...Meanwhile, back at Kai Tak, David England still works in an office in Kowloon Bay that overlooks the old airport's runway. From his window he can see a fleet of double-deckers in a Kowloon Motor Bus livery, on the site where Concordes used to park. "That," he sighs, "is not really the same...
...Tung Chee-hwa means to behave in this way, but, as an outsider to politics and to the communist system, he's simply not very clever at it. For Beijing, he is as frustrating as one of those airport trolleys with a bad wheel that won't push straight. Yet Beijing's rulers cannot afford to sack Tung or even to accept his resignation: that would be an acknowledgment that they picked the wrong guy for the job, and it would also undermine the fiction that China does not meddle in Hong Kong's affairs. A reliable source tells...