UK airlines say there is no shortage of jet fuel, which is exactly the reassurance passengers enjoy hearing before checking a departure board with religious intensity. The fuel is there, the planes are flying, and everyone is pretending global supply chains are not one bad week from turning theatrical.
Travel
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Quarantine at Sea
A quarantined ship is one of those stories that turns modern travel back into something medieval, only with supply drones. Everyone likes global movement until a virus appears and the world remembers that borders, ports and paperwork still have a certain grim usefulness.
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RRS Discovery Centenary Exhibition Opens
The RRS Discovery is getting the sort of centenary treatment that reminds us exploration was never just men in thick coats looking sternly at ice. There were logs, instruments, research and the faintly British habit of doing science somewhere brutally uncomfortable.
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WHO Confirms Eight Hantavirus Cases (Update)
A cruise ship quarantine is grim enough before the phrase ‘limited person-to-person transmission’ starts wandering about the deck. Eight confirmed cases, anxious families and contact tracing across ports: it is not the sort of maritime itinerary anyone had in mind.
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The Ship Nobody Wants
The MV Hondius is now caught between infection, port rules and the grim logistics of finding somewhere safe to land. Passengers stay in cabins while officials argue over risk, capacity and responsibility. A cruise is meant to remove people from daily life. This one has become a floating public-health problem.