October, 2021

• 5 October

  Wizz Air Abu Dhabi to begin operations on seven new routes

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, a UAE national airline, will commence seven new routes in the upcoming weeks bringing its third aircraft to full capacity after the eased travel restrictions were introduced in the Abu Dhabi Emirate recently. The national airline will operate routes to (Sarajevo) Bosnia and Herzegovina, Odesa (Ukraine), Muscat (Oman), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Sohag (Egypt), ...

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• 5 October

  WJMES kicks off today at Expo Centre Sharjah

  

  SHARJAH / WAM The 48th edition of the Watch and Jewellery Middle East Show (WJMES), organised by the Expo Centre Sharjah with the support of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), will kick off on Tuesday with the participation of nearly 300 exhibitors of world-leading companies of the watch and jewellery design and manufacturing, alongside the participation of ...

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• 5 October

  DGCX G6 currency futures register surge in trading activity in September

  

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) once again registered a high monthly Average Open Interest (AOI), amounting to 154,629 contracts in September. Open interest is an indicator of the total number of futures contracts held by market participants at the end of the trading day – and the significant increase over the last few months reflects ...

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• 5 October

  What Dems need is more short-term thinking now

  

  The conventional wisdom is that politicians focus on the short term at the expense of the long term — that they’re obsessed with the latest polling and the next election instead of the future of the country and the next generation. That may be true, but still: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats could use a healthy dose of short-term ...

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• 5 October

  Are AI’s flaws getting harder to ignore?

  

  What do Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk have in common? Both are grappling with big problems that stem, at least in part, from putting faith in artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have underdelivered. Zuckerberg is dealing with algorithms that are failing to stop the spread of harmful content; Musk with software that has yet to ...

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• 5 October

  Letting homeowners turn to homebuilders

  California just gave single-family homeowners more control over their property and, for those in high-demand cities, the potential for a big financial windfall. Eight time zones away in the UK, the Conservative government is revising its planning bill in ways that could give homeowners a similar boon. The details and contexts differ, but both approaches recognise a political reality. The ...

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• 5 October

  Trade-offs in central bank digital currencies

  From the Federal Reserve to Bhutan’s Royal Monetary Authority in the Himalayas, central banks are working on digital currency studies or projects. There are several reasons for this. Most importantly, private cryptocurrencies and so-called stablecoins are rapidly becoming popular rivals to traditional money; Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would not only keep governments in the game but could help make ...

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• 5 October

  Airbus to boost A320 aircraft’s output despite supply woes

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE is confident its global supplier base can overcome pandemic-induced pressures and boost output for the company’s workhorse A320 aircraft family despite the “unprecedented” labour and materials strains currently complicating that effort, Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury said. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Faury reaffirmed the company’s plan to boost A320 output from 40 per month today ...

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• 5 October

  Lufthansa adds flights to meet rising demand

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is adding more than 80 flights from Frankfurt and over 50 departures from Munich this fall as the German airline sees rising demand for leisure destinations. The carrier will offer extra flights to Spain’s Palma de Mallorca, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Malaga, and other European destinations during the country’s fall vacation period, it said in a ...

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• 5 October

  Air New Zealand to mandate full Covid vaccinations for international travellers

  

  Bloomberg Air New Zealand will require international travellers to be vaccinated when flying with the carrier starting from February 1, latest airline to stipulate mandatory jabs for not just crew but passengers also. All travellers aged 18 and above that arrive or depart New Zealand have to be vaccinated and those who haven’t been inoculated need to present proof that ...

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