British Guiana at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924
Nostalgia 530 –
The Guyana Booth at the World Expo in Shanghai during October 2010 was a huge attraction and created much interest with its display of the country’s unique heritage.
This Nostalgia buff has always been proud of our national exhibits at foreign trade shows, etc, and recall excellent displays in the sixties in Canada, even though our star attraction, Millie the talking macaw, had to be repatriated when the exhibition opened. Millie picked up every ’cuss word from the carpenters erecting our booth and by opening day his vocabulary was worse than the local street character – ‘Walker the British.’ Alya remember him? Continue reading
Chinese carriers are the new disrupters in air travel – The Economist
Air Travel: The Chinese have got their tails up
Daxing International Airport – Beijing
The Economist – April 6. 2018
ANYONE who doubts the ambitions of China’s airlines need only look over the plans for Daxing International Airport, which will serve
after it opens in late 2019. It will be the world’s biggest airport by far, with eight runways and room for 100m passengers a year. The new facilities are needed to serve a fast-growing appetite for air travel. The three Chinese carriers that will dominate the passenger traffic passing through Daxing’s cavernous halls are all in rapid ascent. And that has rivals everywhere complaining about the sorts of subsidies that have fuelled airlines since the dawn of commercial aviation. Continue reading →
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