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‘World’s most spectacular airport’ makes global news. Mostly good
The Daily Mirror headline read: ‘World’s most useless airport’ finally gets its first commercial flight – and it’s LATE. Well, it was an irresistable line. The paper’s report of St Helena’s first...
View ArticleSt Helena Airport begins to receive weekly flights
The airport on St Helena has begun to receive weekly flights from South Africa. There are hopes that this development will increase tourism on the island, and boost its economy. Before the airport was...
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Who wants to go to St Helena where iPhones don’t work?
St Helena’s dismal internet connection will deter people from travelling to the Island when its airport is built, according to a telecoms blogger in Germany. Martin Sauter, “a thought leader” in the...
View ArticleSaint lands top job on airport project
St Helenian Janet Lawrence has been named as Airport Project Director by the island’s government. She says her role will be to ensure St Helena’s first-ever airport – costing nearly a quarter of a...
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Relying on tourism poses economic risk, warn territories
Warnings have been sounded about the perils of having an economy based largely on tourism – just as St Helena is trying to do exactly that with the building of its airport. Holidaymakers are seen as...
View Article‘Meet the minister if you want to be part of island’s future’
People in the UK who want a stake in St Helena’s future are being urged to turn up to a meeting with the Secretary of State for International Development. Securing time with Andrew Mitchell at Swindon...
View ArticleShip breakdown and runway problems leave travellers stranded across South...
People trying to travel to and from British Islands in the South Atlantic have been held up for days – and in some cases, weeks – by a double whammy of transport problems:The RMS St Helena has broken...
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