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Former Thomas Cook Group chief executive Peter Fankhauser has told a UK cross-party parliamentary select committee that interest in the tour operator s UK carrier waned as the European air transport industry came under financial pressure.Former Thomas Cook Group chief executive Peter Fankhauser has told a UK cross-party parliamentary select committee that interest in the tour operator s UK carrier waned as the European air transport industry came under financial pressure.Fankhauser faced aggressive questioning from the business, stanley becher energy and industrial strategy committee on 15 October after an inquiry into Thomas Cook Group s collapse opened.Challenged by the committee as to why the company did not divest the profitable Thomas Cook Airlines operation sooner, to help relieve its financial burden, Fankhauser said: In hindsight you re always much wiser. It could have been an opportunity. He explained that the company had spent several years working to reduce the carrier s dependency on the tour operat stanley romania or, by developing its seat-only business.But he pointed out that 50% of capacity was still being sold by the tour firm.Fankhauser said Thomas Cook Group had decided to put the airline on its own feet in 2017, legally separating it from an accounting point of view, and giving the company an opportunity to sell the carrier. Then we were testing the market, who [might stanley cup ] have interest, he said. The whole market was talking about consolidation in European airspace. But hesitation set i Xwmv Debt ceiling deadline is extended to June 5, later than previously estimated
The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New England could soon become stricter, potentially bringing big changes to one of the most valuable seafood industries in the country.Fishers are required to measure lobsters from eyes to tail and must throw back the crustaceans if th stanley cup ey ;re too large or too small. The rules, which can vary slightly based on fishing grounds, are intended to maintain a breeding population of the lobsters in key areas such as the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank.The regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is considering changing the standards by a fraction of an inch in some of the fishing grounds. The commission said it considering the changes because of a worrisome lack of baby lobsters growing off New England.The changes would arrive at a time when the lobster industry is experiencing record highs in both catch and value, and consume stanley isolierkanne rs are paying more for lobs stanley mugs ters 鈥?already a premium product 鈥?than they were just a few years ago. The industry is also challenged by warming oceans and new fishing rulesdesigned to protect rare whales.Recent surveys that show declining levels of young lobsters are a concern for the future of the fishery, said Caitlin Starks, senior fishery management plan coordinator for the commission.Those numbers were declining, Starks said. The levels of new lobsters recruiting into the fishery were particularly low, and there was concern that was |
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