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OWL ACCOMPANIES

FIREFIGHTING PILOT

The bird perched on a
seat back and made itself
Helicopter pilots don’t usually pick home for several minutes.
up hitchhikers, especially in flight, but a Alpiner was afraid the owl
firefighting pilot in California had some would panic and fly around
unexpected company in the cabin last the cockpit but it never
Monday. moved from its perch. “It’s Sky Aviation said in a statement that it
An owl flew through the open door of an unexplainable and magical miracle was an unprecedented experience. “It’s
Dan Alpiner’s UH-1 Huey as he dropped for it to stay with you for several water odd to have an owl enter an aircraft. It’s
water on a section of the sprawling Creek drops, then leave just as it arrived—safe unheard of to have it enter while the helo
Fire in central California. and unannounced,” he said. is in-flight,” Sky Aviation said. Q

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AIRBUS CEO ON

AVIATION RECOVERY

solutions. It’s Covid-19 - it comes from the outside - you just have
to accept it and do your very best in that situation.”
Airbus CEO, Guillaume Faury, discussed how the travel On whether the travel experience will ever be the same: Faury
industry is adapting and looking to recover from the impact of said, “It is important to remember what happened after 9/11.
Covid-19 when he was interviewed by CNN’s Richard Quest on We thought we would never travel again the same way, that the
Business Traveller, passenger experience would be damaged forever. Actually, we
have adapted to the new situation. To the new security systems
With air traffic not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels and measures and become more efficient moving forward. I think
before 2024, Faury told CNN that Airbus has had to rethink their we will learn a lot from Covid-19. We will be much better prepared
approach and invent new solutions. for the next thing that could happen, and we will be back to a
However, he said he believes that the vast majority of consumers different normal life.”
have accepted the new conditions to fly again. Responding to the question on whether the public will sufficient-
Faury referenced how the airline industry recovered from the ly buy into ‘the new normal’, he said “We see the traffic recovering,
September 11th attacks and adapted. the middle seats are occupied… I think there is a large majority, at
He told Quest that “We will be much better prepared for the least in this part of the world, who has accepted [the new normal].
next thing that could happen.” Of course, short distance is easier as a decision to start with, and
On how Airbus has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, Faury when you start to fly again, and get used to the masks and the new
said, “You do all kinds of risk scenarios and ‘What if all airlines are measures, then you start to think of flying long distances. And I’m
impacted at the same time across the world?’ It’s amazing. And impatient to fly long distances again now.” Q
yes, we had to look at the magnitude of the problem, try to invent Article courtesy CNN’s Business Traveller.

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