Air Algerie to purchase 16 airplanes, says state media
ATR is jointly owned by Airbus and Leonardo.
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Air Algerie to purchase 16 airplanes, says state media
Air Algerie signed on Thursday an agreement with the Franco-Italian ATR to purchase 16 new airplanes to boost its domestic network, state media reported. ATR is jointly owned by Airbus and Leonardo.
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Stellantis recalls diesel cars over camshaft chain issue
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F1 talks up Silverstone's ‘forever' future before Starmer meeting
Silverstone circuit could stay on the Formula One calendar forever with no real rival to host the British Grand Prix, the sport's CEO Stefano Domenicali said on Tuesday ahead of this weekend's race. The Italian told reporters he could not imagine a championship without Britain, home to seven of the 10 teams, but there was also no chance of the country having more than one race. "I do believe Silverstone has the right characteristics to stay forever in the calendar," said Domenicali, who will visit Downing Street in London on Wednesday with drivers and team bosses to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "There's no other place where you can develop such a huge event in the UK. I don't see any other places." Silverstone hosted the first world championship race in 1950 and has a contract until 2034. Last year it hosted the biggest crowd of any event on the calendar with 480,000 spectators. Miami and Austria's Red Bull Ring have the longest deals, running to 2041, and Domenicali saw no reason why Silverstone could not join them, though the circuit management had yet to seek an extension. The meeting at Downing Street is billed as an informal celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first F1 championship race at Silverstone, but is also a chance to raise issues the sport wants addressed. Domenicali said he would highlight how much the "F1 ecosystem" contributes to Britain as the beating heart of a global sport, and the risk of losing that primacy due to restrictions on staff and movement. Formula One figures calculate the sport brings £12bn (R290,826,680,000) annually to the UK economy with 6,000 people directly employed and a further 41,000 working in a supply chain of 4,500 companies. The Italian said visa issues post-Brexit had affected the deployment of staff from race to race around Europe, while costly and time-consuming paperwork had complicated logistics and made it harder to draw up the race calendar. "It is impossible to think in the short term that the teams will move out from the UK because of the limitation, but the teams will maybe organise themselves in a different way," he warned. "What we are asking is not to change the decision your country has taken, because it's not our mandate and our role, but to facilitate things that are having a burden on the economical side.
