Saturday, November 22, 2025

PMM — Nov. 22, 2025: The 6 Stories That Matter



 Today’s set: Boeing’s lost win, a leap into air taxis, space tourism’s status, France enforcing disruption, airport queue oddities, and the development funding retreat.

Why Boeing lost FlyDubai.

A “please don’t mention us” URL pushes the story — why did Boeing lose the FlyDubai order? Questions around timing, risk, and reputation.

🔗 https://cmemailmarketing.co.uk/A05767353-CMP21410CON3533-RCP2I375487O32-4-TRK49303ENT21410-1-Z-Z-0-0-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

Someone takes the plunge.

Dubai rolls out its role as the birth-place of air taxis. Bold vision meets complex execution.

🔗 https://gulfnews.com/business/aviation/why-dubai-is-the-birthplace-of-air-taxis-1.500351821

Is Space Tourism a thing? Perhaps.

Singapore Airshow’s Space Summit poses the question — is space tourism going from hype toward real utility?

🔗 http://spacesummit.singaporeairshow.com/agenda/

France does what should have been done a while ago.

New French enforcement: delay or disrupt a flight and you may pay. Regulation catching up with airline behaviour.

🔗 https://simpleflying.com/disrupt-a-flight-pay-the-price-france-fines/

A NEW CATEGORY… Weird.

Virtual queues for aircraft: planes stay at gate until take-off slot? It’s viral, unusual — but airports don’t work that way.

🔗 https://viewfromthewing.com/viral-virtual-queue-idea-says-planes-should-stay-at-the-gate-until-their-turn-to-take-off-but-thats-not-how-airports-actually-work/

Quirky: Sad but fixable.

The world’s richest nations are reducing global development aid. The drop is unfortunate, but reversable.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/worlds-richest-nations-are-pulling-back-global-development-efforts-study-show-2025-11-20/

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