August 11th - Emirates Returns with Purpose
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Emirates is back and ambitious.
Virgin Atlantic returns to Edinburgh with a Caribbean connection.
And Avanti West Coast is adding more trains to link London with Birmingham and Manchester.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot we're told about bladder leaks. |
| 0:02.5 | We're told it's the sign of decline. |
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| 0:25.9 | Always seek medical advice from your GP or pelvic health specialist. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, it's Wednesday the 11th of August and thanks for joining me for the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the Travel Desk of the Independent. |
| 0:43.7 | Coming to you now from Stanford Brook Underground Station. One of those stations that time rather forgot. |
| 0:51.6 | And at some stage there may be a tube to Acton Town, but frankly, I'm not |
| 0:57.1 | banking on it. Today, Emirates is back and ambitious. Virgin Atlantic returns to Edinburgh with |
| 1:04.7 | a Caribbean connection and Avanti West Coast is adding more trains to link London with Birmingham and Manchester. |
| 1:13.0 | Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. |
| 1:18.7 | You can sign up for that at independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters. |
| 1:25.5 | Emirates is the most dominant intercontinental airline by a mile. |
| 1:33.0 | It's based in Dubai, of course, and until the coronavirus pandemic was flying tens of |
| 1:39.8 | millions of people around every year. |
| 1:43.9 | They had an extraordinary network with an awful lot of it concentrated in the UK. |
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