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IATA Revises Growth Forecast Downward
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised its financial forecast for airlines in 2009 downward – to a global loss of $9 billion. This almost twice the $4.7 billion loss estimate in March, demonstrating that the revenue environment is quickly worsening.
IATA also increased its last 2008 loss estimate from $8.5 billion to $10.4 billion
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Villa Am Römerholz
Zurich, Switzerland
Oskar Reinhart was an heir to Volkart Brothers, a Winterthur-based trading company focused on importing goods, specifically cotton, from India. The entire Reinhart family were great lovers and collectors of art, but Oskar took it to another level. In his lifetime, he collected more than 800 paintings by many of Europe's great masters. The best pieces in the collection, about 200 ...
Museum of World Cultures
Frankfurt, Germany
Formerly known as the Museum of Ethnology, the Museum of World Cultures aims to promote global understanding and acceptance by facilitating thoughtful dialogue and presenting unifying ideals. The building at Schaumainkai 29 has exihibits emphasizing timeless questions of human existence while Gallery 27 presents work by contemporary artists from India, Africa, Oceania and Indonesia. Visits to the ...
Yaldhurst Museum
Christchurch, New Zealand
Alfred Thornhill Cooper and Marion Cooper are to be credited for this amazing collection of vintage cars in the Yaldhurst Museum. Opened on 26th December 1968, the museum has a collection 400 cars ranging from passenger to school buses to the rare models that had not more than 5 units manufactured! If you are an automobile fanatic, the Yaldhurst Museum will be your favorite attraction in all of Ch...
Lenin Statue
Hanoi, Vietnam
The Lenin Statue is a monument to the Soviet leader at the triangular playground called Lenin Park; on Duong Dien Bien Phu Street. The monument faces the Army Museum, and is probably one of the world's few standing reminders of the Russian revolution, which today is difficult to find in Russia itself. ...