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Aer Lingus: The Shamrock-Shadow Airline Quietly Steering Globalization at 35,000 Feet
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Aer Lingus and the Shamrock-Shaped Shadow It Casts on the World By the time the average passenger has wrestled their 10-kilo “personal item” into Aer Lingus’ overhead bin, four different currencies have probably lost value, one trade pact has quietly expired, and a hedge fund in Connecticut has shorted the euro on the assumption that…

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Business | International

Qatar Airways: Flying First-Class Through Geopolitical Turbulence
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

Qatar Airways: The World’s Nicest Way to Ignore Geopolitics at 35,000 Feet Doha—Somewhere above the Persian Gulf, the cabin lights dim to a shade called “midnight indigo” and a flight attendant glides down the aisle offering warm almonds as if they were tiny, salted apologies for the last half-century of regional turbulence. Qatar Airways, the…

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