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Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Europe ahoy: IndiGo to start London, Copenhagen & Athens flight by winter
File photo NEW DELHI: Indian globetrotters will soon have more airline options for their overseas trips. IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers Friday said the airline will start flights to London, Copenhagen & Athens in Europe and Siem Reap in Cambodia by this winter. India's largest airline is starting Europe flights with Amsterdam and Manchester on Norse Atlantic wet leased (hired with operating crew) Boeing 787s this July. This year, it will add 10 new international destinations to its network apart from introducing its business product Stretch on some international destinations — Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore and Phuket — that are served by narrow body aircraft. 'With one new aircraft joining the fleet every week for the next decade or so, IndiGo anticipates surpassing a fleet size of 600 aircraft by 2030. We received 58 Airbus aircraft last fiscal and crossed the $10 billion revenue mark apart from flying 11.8 crore passengers. Every three days, we fly 10 lakh passengers,' Elbers said here Friday as IndiGo is hosting the annual general meeting of International Air Transport Association (IATA). Air India has also placed an order for over 500 aircraft and is growing aggressively after Tatas took over the Maharaja in Jan 2022. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like A brain tumor threatens his life. Please save him. Donate For Health Donate Now Undo 'India is in a hurry and so is IndiGo,' he said referring to the growth of the airline. In fiscal 2015, it had 21 domestic destinations and now it is at 91 to which Hindon, Adampur, Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida will be added this year. In fiscal 2015, it had five international destinations and now it has 40 in which 10 more will be added in FY 26. 'People ask us if we are a low cost carrier (LCC) or a full service one, we are neither. We have built our own model,' the CEO said. IndiGo has signed an agreement with Norse Atlantic Airways for a damp lease of six Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, deliveries of which will be completed by early 2026. This fiscal it will get the long range Airbus A321XLR. The Dreamliners will be used for direct flights connecting Mumbai with Manchester and Amsterdam starting July 2025, and then flights from India to London and Copenhagen. Athens will be served by the A321XLR. 'The airline will (add) four more Central Asian destinations being added... will re-activate services to Almaty and Tashkent with new non-stop services from Mumbai. Tbilisi will also see additional capacity with non-stop connectivity from Mumbai. Direct flights to Siem Reap will be IndiGo's foray in the India – Cambodia market… after the launch of services to Langkawi, Penang and Krabi last year. The airline will also add capacity to Denpasar Bali (Indonesia) as well as Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam,' Elbers said. IndiGo has two maintenance facilities with hangars Delhi and Bengaluru. On Friday, it signed an MoU with Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) to build a maintenance repair overhaul (MRO) facility on 31 acres of land. This facility will be equipped to handle narrow-body and wide-body aircraft. 'With more than 400 aircraft in fleet and over 900 on order, a dedicated MRO facility will give a significant advantage in terms of aircraft availability, greater cost efficiencies and quicker turnaround benefiting the airline. We are keeping planes longer now and that also makes a MRO necessary,' Elbers said.
West Australian
6 days ago
- Sport
- West Australian
West Coast Eagles strengthen reconciliation commitment ahead of launching Stretch RAP
The West Coast Eagles are strengthening their commitment towards reconciliation as they move forward with their third phase of the Reconciliation Action Plan. West Coast will next month launch its Stretch RAP across its AFL, AFLW and WAFL programs in a bid to advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Stretch is the third stage of the RAP — Reflect, Innovate, Stretch and Elevate — with each stage building on the previous to guide the club on its reconciliation journey. Former West Coast AFLW star Kate Orme, who is on the club's RAP committee, said Stretch had four key components; respect, relationships, opportunities and governance. 'The RAP gives us a really strong framework to make powerful changes 365 days of the year rather than just during community celebrations,' she told The West Australian. 'We're a really big and powerful brand, and I think the onus is on us to be a leader in our community (and) around taking active steps towards reconciliation.' She said the club was committed to increasing recruitment, retention and professional development opportunities for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes. '(Respect) is about increasing (our) understanding (towards things) like welcome to country, acknowledging the traditional owners ... smoking ceremonies and consultation on any language we use,' she said. 'We've got a procurement strategy to remove barriers for First Nations suppliers and we've got development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses. 'There's also increased working and learning opportunities at the club for First Nations students in promoting increased student placements.' West Coast AFLW great Krstel Petrevski — a proud Indigenous Kija and Jara woman — is the brains behind the artwork on the Stretch booklet. She says the design was inspired by the club's 2023 Indigenous guernsey. The guernsey, which she also designed, depicts an eagle connecting the club's AFL and AFLW programs together. 'The eagle's wings represent all of the past players and staff members that have been part of the footy club coming together ... and they connect the two programs together,' she said. 'As one feather grows, it will eventually outgrow and come off, and then another feather grows over the top which is the theme I was going for ... (footy players) paving the way for the next one to come through. 'There's elements on the jumper (which represent) all different walks of life coming together binding this club, so we've gone with a similar theme and used elements of that design to create the RAP booklet because the story from the jumper was really powerful.' Orme said it was 'hard to overstate' the importance of reconciliation in Australian sport. 'Sport is a vehicle for change,' she said. 'AFL is a level playing field and I think it's really important to bring off-the-field work with First Nations people to really champion reconciliation. 'Ninety per cent of reconciliation has to be done by non-Indigenous people ... and I'm really proud to be a non-Indigenous person that's an ally for change and an ally for First Nations people.'
Sydney Morning Herald
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
This is not a pop band – as a packed Melbourne room reflected, it's something more unusual
THEATRE Endgames ★★★ fortyfivedownstairs, until June 1 Three brief encounters with hideous men achieve a sense of twilit tragicomedy in the hands of the legendary Max Gillies. With Endgames, Gillies rejoins director Laurence Strangio to present what's in some ways a companion piece to their 2018 production of Krapp's Last Tape – this time uniting the late Beckett work Eh Joe with an excerpt from Jack Hibberd's classic monodrama A Stretch of the Imagination and Chekhov's shambolic lecture On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco. Although Hibberd died last year, the curtain may long continue to fall on his immortal stage creation, Monk O'Neill. The misanthropic hermit in Stretch remains an incarnation of Australian male destructiveness and despair as appalling as he is compelling. Hibberd used this character to diagnose cultural disease – from slashing misogyny to the rapacity and bad faith of colonialism – with a clear-eyed honesty that reshaped what was possible on our stages, and this excerpt includes Monk's final will and testament, in which he gives: 'all my lands and property, goods and chattels, to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia … On no account must my domain fall into the clutches of the predatory and upstart albino. I believe that the tides of history will swamp and wash aside this small pink tribe of mistletoe men, like insects …Change insects to dead leaves…' One Tree Hill isn't his to give, of course, and even Monk's presence is erased in this version, largely an audio performance under crepuscular lighting. Gillies only appears once, rifle in hand, pursuing 'an emu on heat' through the shadows; the brilliantly produced soundscape, however, overfills the physical absence – not least in the copious, and comically loud, urination which bookends the piece. If that whets the appetite for a proper remount of Stretch, the audio monologue in Eh Joe is part of Beckett's creative intention. The elderly loner here sits entombed in silence on a couch, as the accusatory voice of a woman (Jillian Murray) torments him with memory and regret. As he seduced women in his life, so this internal voice now seduces him towards death, and Gillies' wordless performance haunts with barely perceptible pain and confusion, with the agony of futile presence. Loading Gillies has always had a talent for clowning, and in the Chekhov, he leans into a more overtly satirical sort of existential monologue. Nyukhin is a nervy, ineffectual public speaker. The man is supposed to be giving a charity lecture on the evils of tobacco, but it keeps turning into a digressive complaint about his wife and daughters, whom he fears. The actor fumbles his lines more than a few times, which matters less than it might when he's playing a character who wishes he could erase his memory, and whose comical lack of authority is his defining feature.
The Age
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
This is not a pop band – as a packed Melbourne room reflected, it's something more unusual
THEATRE Endgames ★★★ fortyfivedownstairs, until June 1 Three brief encounters with hideous men achieve a sense of twilit tragicomedy in the hands of the legendary Max Gillies. With Endgames, Gillies rejoins director Laurence Strangio to present what's in some ways a companion piece to their 2018 production of Krapp's Last Tape – this time uniting the late Beckett work Eh Joe with an excerpt from Jack Hibberd's classic monodrama A Stretch of the Imagination and Chekhov's shambolic lecture On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco. Although Hibberd died last year, the curtain may long continue to fall on his immortal stage creation, Monk O'Neill. The misanthropic hermit in Stretch remains an incarnation of Australian male destructiveness and despair as appalling as he is compelling. Hibberd used this character to diagnose cultural disease – from slashing misogyny to the rapacity and bad faith of colonialism – with a clear-eyed honesty that reshaped what was possible on our stages, and this excerpt includes Monk's final will and testament, in which he gives: 'all my lands and property, goods and chattels, to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia … On no account must my domain fall into the clutches of the predatory and upstart albino. I believe that the tides of history will swamp and wash aside this small pink tribe of mistletoe men, like insects …Change insects to dead leaves…' One Tree Hill isn't his to give, of course, and even Monk's presence is erased in this version, largely an audio performance under crepuscular lighting. Gillies only appears once, rifle in hand, pursuing 'an emu on heat' through the shadows; the brilliantly produced soundscape, however, overfills the physical absence – not least in the copious, and comically loud, urination which bookends the piece. If that whets the appetite for a proper remount of Stretch, the audio monologue in Eh Joe is part of Beckett's creative intention. The elderly loner here sits entombed in silence on a couch, as the accusatory voice of a woman (Jillian Murray) torments him with memory and regret. As he seduced women in his life, so this internal voice now seduces him towards death, and Gillies' wordless performance haunts with barely perceptible pain and confusion, with the agony of futile presence. Loading Gillies has always had a talent for clowning, and in the Chekhov, he leans into a more overtly satirical sort of existential monologue. Nyukhin is a nervy, ineffectual public speaker. The man is supposed to be giving a charity lecture on the evils of tobacco, but it keeps turning into a digressive complaint about his wife and daughters, whom he fears. The actor fumbles his lines more than a few times, which matters less than it might when he's playing a character who wishes he could erase his memory, and whose comical lack of authority is his defining feature.
Daily Mirror
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Amanda Holden shows off legs in summer mini skirt that's 40% off
Amanda Holden has been delivering some glamorous looks over the last few weeks as the Britain's Got Talent final approaches. And while her gowns and sequins offer bold statements to dazzle on screen, her day job at Heart FM sees the radio presenter sport a much more relaxed but equally chic wardrobe. This week, the 54-year-old was summer ready as she showed off her pins in a mini skirt and one-sleeved top. And now, fans can steal her style for less because I've found her exact outfit - and it's on sale with 40% off. Sharing her warm weather ensemble, Amanda told her 2.5 million Instagram followers: 'Hello happy Monday can you believe the weather finally? It's fantastic, so I decided to just wear one sleeve.' The blouse in question is the Cotton Stripe Belted Woven One Shoulder Top from Karen Millen, which is currently £59.40 down from £99. The cotton fabric and one-sleeve design ensures breathability, making it ideal for the warmer weather, be it for family gatherings or outdoor brunches. Coming in an eye-catching striped pattern, the belted waist cinches in the waist, creating a feminine silhouette that Karren Millen says is 'both flattering and comfortable'. Perfect for daytime events, this versatile piece can be styled for a range of casual outings. Pair it with high-waisted trousers and flat sandals for a sophisticated lunch date, or team it with your favourite denim and trainers for a stylish weekend look. Amanda styled it with the Stretch Denim Snaffle Trim Mini Skirt, also from Karen Millen. The skirt is made from a stretchy fabric which allows for 'all day comfort' with Amanda being a fan of the pockets and its length. She said: 'Hello happy Monday, can you believe the weather finally? It's fantastic, so I decided to just wear one sleeve. This [skirt] reminds me of the 80s when I used to have little jean skirts. It's that sort of midi length as well. I'm quite enjoying it. It's got two flappy pockets disguised in there to put useful things. And this gorgeous blouse with one sleeve, super lovely, this could be like a day to evening thing.' Originally £79, the skirt is down to £47.40 as part of the limited time deal, but some sizes have already sold out. Elsewhere, River Island has this Blue Denim Button Mini Skirt for £36 which has similar pocket detailing, but with a button front design with all sizes in stock. Karen Millen is a brand that's incredibly popular with the presenter, who has oftentimes been seen wearing outfits from the retailer. Back in February, the ITV star wore this blue Karen Millen frock with a pair of white pointed heels. While it's usually priced at £159, the exact Karen Millen dress Amanda sported currently has a whopping 40% off at Debenhams. This discount means customers can now bag the item for £83.40 - a saving of £75.60. But she doesn't always opt for the higher-end high street names, and is known to be a fan of more affordable brands too. Earlier this year, Amanda offered the perfect inspiration when she showed off her elegant, all-grey outfit from River Island. The presenter's Oversized Long Sleeve Shirt, £45, comes in regular or petite sizes, and matches these Grey Wide Pleat Front Trousers, also £45. But if its her Karen Millen skirt and blouse combo you want to recreate in your own wardrobe, fashion fans can shop the look here.
