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What are we reading? July 14, 2022

Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
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Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.

Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:

If the current airline-airport cancellation and chaos is giving you second thoughts about 21st century jet travel and its inventory of discomfort and disagreeableness, you might want to consider harkening back to a more leisurely era of air travel when the voyage was as much an enjoyable part of the trip as the destination itself. Blimps, you see, might be drifting back in a big way onto the air travel option menu.

First up is Spain's Air Nostrum, which, according to this Big Think story, recently ordered a fleet of hybrid Airlander 10s. The helium airships reportedly have a range of 4,000 nautical miles and can cruise at an old-worldly speed of 80 miles per hour for five days at a time. Ideal for pondering the good life at 20,000 feet, glass of pinot noir in hand. 

https://bigthink.com/the-future/spanish-airline-air-nostrum-airships/

For more background on the practical pros and cons of airship travel, have a look at this Slash Gear feature. https://www.slashgear.com/926990/the-mind-boggling-truth-about-blimps/

Emma Crawford, online editor:

Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays: according to this WaPo piece, only 30% of white-collar workers actually go in to their workplaces on the last working day of the week. How should employers deal with this? – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/15/its-official-fridays-office-are-over/