To make it slightly easier, isn't it Maltese residents who are *either* citizens of Malta or citizens of the EU (or, indeed, a Brit with long term residency there post-Brexit)?
October 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
To make it slightly easier, isn't it Maltese residents who are *either* citizens of Malta or citizens of the EU (or, indeed, a Brit with long term residency there post-Brexit)?
Trouble is, most tourists from here will be on ESTAs / VWP, which will seemingly still be $21/3yr. Where this will bite is those of us that *need* visas - this'll be costing airlines between £500k and £3m/yr by my rough maths, for instance.
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Trouble is, most tourists from here will be on ESTAs / VWP, which will seemingly still be $21/3yr. Where this will bite is those of us that *need* visas - this'll be costing airlines between £500k and £3m/yr by my rough maths, for instance.
But if you're a dip at the border with the phone in your hand, what's to stop CBP just taking it other than the Vienna Convention? I'd argue the US Executive have already established a carefree attitude towards that sort of thing - a border phone search is less aggressive than an embassy search...
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
But if you're a dip at the border with the phone in your hand, what's to stop CBP just taking it other than the Vienna Convention? I'd argue the US Executive have already established a carefree attitude towards that sort of thing - a border phone search is less aggressive than an embassy search...
Genuine question, as I haven't a clue about US Federal law: is there no equivalent akin to estoppel in public law, if the incoming administration makes clear it wouldn't enforce, buying you another four years of continued operation? I can see that the executive can't bind its successor though.
January 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Genuine question, as I haven't a clue about US Federal law: is there no equivalent akin to estoppel in public law, if the incoming administration makes clear it wouldn't enforce, buying you another four years of continued operation? I can see that the executive can't bind its successor though.
As someone who drives large aeroplanes over that part of the world semi-regularly - I have only, "wat"? How did they think that was OK, let alone a good idea?
September 6, 2024 at 8:00 AM
As someone who drives large aeroplanes over that part of the world semi-regularly - I have only, "wat"? How did they think that was OK, let alone a good idea?
Unless he was a Boeing pilot (not impossible, but if he was I'm sure it would've come to light) he wouldn't have even heard of MCAS. There was literally only one reference to MCAS in the available manuals, in the abbreviation table.
No-one on either Lion Air flight understood what had happened.
March 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Unless he was a Boeing pilot (not impossible, but if he was I'm sure it would've come to light) he wouldn't have even heard of MCAS. There was literally only one reference to MCAS in the available manuals, in the abbreviation table.
No-one on either Lion Air flight understood what had happened.