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El presidente de la AEB pide «no dramatizar» y «ni demonizar» a todo el sector por unas cláusulas suelo que en general «no son ilícitas»

CABIN crew on Korea Air flights have used electric stun guns to pacify flyers on five occasions, according to an investigation by the BBC. The report says that South Korea’s national carrier is the only big airline known to fly with such tasers on board. They were first introduced on its planes in 2002.

According to the Beeb, the airline is now “ramping up training for staff using the guns after criticism for the way it handled a recent in-flight disturbance”. In that instance, an all-female cabin crew apparently took four hours to subdue a drunk passenger, with other paying flyers forced to help them do so.

Allowing flight attendants to use weapons on planes is troubling. If it takes demure crew several hours to pacify a drunkard, it will not take much for a ne’er-do-well to take the weapon from them for his own means. And no matter how well trained the crew are at handling a taser, they were presumably not selected by the airline for their dead-eye abilities. The danger of something going wrong is too great.

If someone must be responsible for electrocuting flyers, it should be a…Continue reading

CABIN crew on Korean Air flights have used electric stun guns to pacify flyers on five occasions, according to an investigation by the BBC. The report says that South Korea’s national carrier is the only big airline known to fly with such tasers on board. They were first introduced on its planes in 2002.

According to the Beeb, the airline is now “ramping up training for staff using the guns after criticism for the way it handled a recent in-flight disturbance”. In that instance, an all-female cabin crew apparently took four hours to subdue a drunk passenger, with other paying flyers forced to help them do so.

Allowing flight attendants to use weapons on planes is troubling. If it takes demure crew several hours to pacify a drunkard, it will not take much for a ne’er-do-well to take the weapon from them for his own means. And no matter how well trained the crew are at handling a taser, they were presumably not selected by the airline for their dead-eye abilities. The danger of something going wrong is too great.

If someone must be responsible for electrocuting flyers, it should be a…Continue reading

Según el texto definitivo aprobado este viernes por el Consejo de Ministros, todo el proceso se hará en un plazo máximo de tres meses

IT WOULD be hard to find two more different characters than Theresa May and Donald Trump; the former a suburban vicar’s daughter, the latter a brash reality TV star. But they face similar problems—how to keep both the markets and their supporters satisfied.

For Mrs May, the problem is her dissonant rhetoric. On the one hand, she has used what was once known as “one nation” Tory rhetoric, arguing against the worst excesses of capitalism and the need to help those who are “just about managing”. So here she is in her Davos speech saying of her new approach that 

It means businesses paying their fair share of tax, recognising their obligations and duties to their employees and supply chains, and trading in the right way;
Companies genuinely investing in—and becoming part of—the communities and nations in which they operate, and abiding by the responsibilities that implies;
And all of us taking steps towards addressing executive pay and accountability to shareholders.

In practice, however, she has already retreated from a proposal to put workers on boards, plans to push ahead with…Continue reading

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