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What to Expect with Infrastructure & Public Projects in 2020 & Beyond

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What to Expect with Infrastructure & Public Projects in 2020 & Beyond. Sat, 07/18/2020 - 09:47. Whether you complete work in the public sector or not, you're affected daily by its long-suffering issues—even if it's only so much as navigating congested roadways and airports for frequent travel. Elizabeth Manning.

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6 must reads for the AEC industry today: September 22, 2020

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Wings clipped, airports veer to tech to regain passenger trust (BD+C) . The impact of the coronavirus on airport construction and renovation has been mixed.

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Coronavirus and travel: Can you get a refund and how do flight and travel credits and vouchers work?

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Although we are now banned from travelling out of Australia except for emergencies, many travellers now find ourselves on an unknown path through unfamiliar territory. Millions of Australians, myself included, have booked and paid for overseas travel in the next few months. Airports around the world are mostly deserted.

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Plane travel and coronavirus: People are missing travel so much, they’re getting airline food delivered

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The coronavirus pandemic has made us pine for travel – the booking, the downloading of the boarding pass, even the in-flight snacks. May 4, 2020. He says there are hundreds of clients eager to find buyers for millions of pounds of food originally slated for restaurant, hotel or travel and leisure businesses. May 7, 2020.

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Traveller letters: Having ‘gold’ status with an airline doesn’t mean much now

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Earlier last month my wife and I travelled to Thailand with a stay in Bangkok and Rayong. Phone queues to Virgin were prohibitively expensive due to demand, so I considered the best option was to front up to Bangkok airport and go from there. Six of us booked safaris to Kenya and Tanzania in August, 2020.

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Travel in Europe during coronavirus: Plan to create ‘tourism corridors’ between countries

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It faces the loss of at least half of its turnover in 2020, with countries in southern Europe particularly badly hit, the European Commission said. More than three-quarters of trips made by EU citizens are to other EU countries but travel restrictions continue to apply across the bloc. The country is in coronavirus lockdown.

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Parked Qatar Airways planes collide at airport during wild storm

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The incident at Hamad International Airport was caught on video and posted on social media (watch the incident in the video above). . “The aircraft had been parked securely and chocked in accordance with AMM (aircraft maintenance manual) guidelines while operations at the airport had been temporarily suspended due to the high winds.