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What is the fastest route from Helsinki to Tokyo? Flights AY61 and AY73 flew in completely different directions from Helsinki, but both are approaching Tokyo with similar flight times.

When you graduated decades ago but you're still stuck in a London rental with flatmates and IKEA furniture

📽️ Watch our PhD candidate Dino Mahtani on BBC News (UK) as he discusses the crisis in DR Congo and the ongoing efforts to de-escalate the situation.

The plane stuff is freaking me out. I refuse to board a non-woke flight. I want to see at least 3 genders in the cockpit

London-Heathrow will be closed for ALL of Friday due to a “significant power outage” caused by a fire in an electrical substation. There are currently 120 aircraft in the air that will be diverting to alternate airports or returning to their origins. flightradar24.com/airport/lhr

We still think about the Antonov AN-225 on a daily basis. 💔

The world map drawn with just aircraft icons.

What can we learn from the Singaporean election, where nobody lost? | Kazimier Lim ift.tt/pw5W9aU

An art deco revival at Charles de Gaulle Airport by designer Hugo Toro

Drawn by René Georges Hermann-Paul in 1899, it remains depressingly relevant

Waking up the Airbus

Waking up June 1st

I'm normally not a fan of Piketty (what kind of person calls their book 'The Capital' but simultaneously badmouths Marx and says he "never managed really to read" the original "Das Kapital"?) But, credit when credit is due, this is a genuinely fascinating study. It is in fact

Piketty’s fans retort by saying (as mainstreamers always do) that the contribution lies in the “novel data” and cute econometrics. Can we imagine another science in which an “empirical” practitioner fails to MENTION the theorist who discovered the concept?

The Call for Papers for next year's *8th edition* of the London-based DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series is now live at doingips.org/news-events/do…. We welcome PhD students from all disciplines who work on IPS, broadly conceived. Please help us share far and wide!!

Flights clearing Iran and Iraq after airspace closures in both countries following strikes by Israel in Iran.

The body of a Boeing 747 being shipped through canals in Amsterdam to an aviation museum in Lelystad. The plane, donated by Dutch airline KLM, had been retired from active duty and couldn't be flown to its new home in Lelystad. 🎥: u/KyndMiki

This is what global air traffic looks like right now. Three clear gaps are limiting air traffic.

We are currently tracking more than 24,000 aircraft around the world. Based on current trends, it is likely that today will also set a daily record for most tracked flights ever.

Qatar is temporarily closing its airspace “in order to ensure the safety of citizens, residents, and visitors.” There are currently 100 flights bound for Doha. flightradar24.com/airport/doh