JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers can count themselves among the success stories to come out of Bachelor Nation.
The couple met and fell in love during season 12 of The Bachelorette in 2016. The reality stars had a long engagement before finally setting a wedding date in June 2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic delayed their plans.
Amid the wait for their nuptials, Fletcher’s season re-aired as part of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! Turns out, Rodgers had never seen their televised love story, so the special event gave him an opportunity to walk down memory lane.
“When I first got the call from our producers, I think I got this pit in my stomach. I was like, ‘No! We have to rewatch this?’ I don’t know why I had initially felt that, but like there was like a sense of anxiety,” Fletcher exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2020. “I think I got really lucky the first time around because Jordan didn’t watch my season. He’s like, ‘I don’t need to see that!’ But now he’s like, ‘I’m super excited to watch!’ I’m like, ‘Oh, great. Four years later we’re gonna rehash all this?’”
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Brianne Howey is balancing motherhood and work as she prepares to celebrate the holiday season while filming season 4 of Ginny & Georgia.
“[My daughter] is 2 and my husband [Matt Ziering and I] are California natives. We are both from Southern California, so getting to spend time right now in Toronto [is lovely],” Howey, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Shutterfly. “It just started snowing here and my daughter is in heaven.”
Howey, who plays Georgia on the Netflix series, joked she didn’t know how to top this experience next year.
“I don’t even know what we’re going to do next holiday season if we’re not near the snow,” she noted. “But this has been so, so special for her.”
While filming in Canada, Howey has found a way to capture moments with her family, telling Us, “Especially now that I have a family, the possibilities are truly endless. We had a blast when a couple of weeks ago, we got to have our own personal little family photo shoot.”
She continued: “Because we’re actually shooting season 4 of the show right now, we’re in Toronto and the weather turned about a month ago. Fall is falling and it’s been so gorgeous and it worked out so amazing for our family holiday card photo.”
“I rely very heavily on my support system — on my family, on my team and on my friends,” she said. “I definitely couldn’t do it without them.”
Howey and Ziering met in 2015 while out at a bar and eventually started dating. They eventually got engaged after five years together and planned to tie the knot in October 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Howey and Ziering had to postpone their ceremony until July 2021. The couple welcomed their daughter that same year.
As a family of three, the holidays have gotten even busier, but Howey has managed to do it all — from raising her daughter and filming her hit Netflix series to finding time to prepare the perfect gifts.
“I truly wouldn’t be able to even manage gifting throughout the holiday season — while working — without something as simple as Shutterfly,” she told Us. “It’s probably the most authentic partnership there is for me. I will be using Shutterfly all holiday season anyway.”
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Howey expressed her appreciation for the website, which has helped her to surprise her loved ones with custom items.
“I’ve used them every year — probably for the last 10 years. I’m not even exaggerating. It’s the most convenient gift giving stop,” she explained. “[For my daughter], we have a book with all of the pictures of our family and friends at home that we look through every other day to feel close to everybody that we’re missing when we start to feel a little bit homesick.”
She added: “One of my all time favorite items is when I got my stepmom a blanket with our family portrait on it. It was the biggest hit. She lays it out over the couch during the holidays. It’s very sweet. We’re big Halloween people, so we love any reason to feel festive. I utilize a lot of our Halloween pictures for gifts on Shutterfly.”
Long-haul carrier Emirates reported on Thursday that it earned annual profits of $5.2 billion, with the state-owned firm declaring itself the world’s most profitable airline as global aviation fully returned to flight after the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The profits came as the Dubai-based carrier served 53.7 million passengers out of its hub of Dubai International Airport, compared to 51.9 million passengers in the fiscal year prior. It had aftertax profits of $4.7 billion that same period.
The overall Emirates Group, owned by Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund known as the Investment Corporation of Dubai, saw annual profits of $5.6 billion, compared to $5.1 billion the year before.
“Our excellent financial standing enables us to continue building on and scaling up from our successful business models,” said Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktom, Emirates’ chairman and chief executive.
“While some markets are jittery about trade and travel restrictions, volatility is not new in our industry,” he said. “We simply adapt and navigate around these challenges.”
Real estate and tourism
The carrier had revenues of $34.9 billion, compared to $33 billion the year prior. Those revenues put it behind other private carriers, like Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc., which led the industry with revenue of $61.6 billion last year.
However, Emirates’ $5.2 billion in profit put it to the front of the pack. Emirates operates hand-in-glove with Dubai International Airport, flying at all hours from a hub in a country where unions are illegal. Falling crude oil prices also aids its profits, like other airlines.
The carrier said its 260 aircraft fly to 148 locations around the world. It has long relied on the Boeing 777 and the double-decker Airbus A380, though it has also begun introducing the Airbus A350 to its schedule. It’s undertaking a multibillion-dollar retrofitting campaign for its aircraft and says it doesn’t expect its first Boeing 777-9 until 2027.
The Emirates’ results track with those for its base, Dubai International Airport. The world’s busiest airport for international travelers had a record 92.3 million passengers pass through its terminals in 2024.
A real estate and the city’s highest-ever tourism numbers have made Dubai a destination as well as a layover.
Thursday, 23 September 2020 MaraviPost: Ethiopian Airlines, one of Africa’s leading airlines and a popular choice for visitors to Malawi, are now expanding their services since the reopening of Malawi’s airports during the coronavirus pandemic.
We announced last week that Ethiopian Airlines were offering one flight a week to Lilongwe, but can now confirm that this to be extended to a twice weekly service.
To keep up with demand and allow visitors to return to Malawi, in addition to their Saturday service, Ethiopian will now operate a Tuesday departure out of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
With an ever increasing network of destinations around the world being served by Ethiopian Airlines from their Addis hub, these flights make Malawi globally accessible once again.
For visitors from the UK, passengers can fly overnight from London Heathrow on a Monday or Friday and then depart the following morning (Tuesday/Saturday) from Addis Ababa for their onward journey to Malawi. For travellers from the north of the UK, departures from Manchester are also available on Sundays & Thursdays. After an overnight flight to Ethiopia, there is a 24 hour stop-over in Addis in order to catch the current Tuesday/Saturday connections to Lilongwe. During the break in your flights, Ethiopian include a hotel, meals and visa for the stop-over, which means you can explore the cultural capital of Ethiopia before moving onto Malawi.
The gradual expansion of flights from Ethiopian Airlines in a safe and secure way during the coronavirus pandemic offers light at the end of the tunnel for tourists keen to visit Malawi, and also for the tourism providers in Malawi and all who rely on them for their livelihood.
Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South Constituency Noel Lipipa
Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South Constituency Noel Lipipa has questioned the idea of prioritizing the fresh elections over the well-being of Malawians amid threated pandemic- COVID-19.
Speaking in an interview Lipipa said that there is a need for Malawi to avoid being a nation that doesn’t put the well-being of its people first but democracy in this time of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“We have allocated a whopping MK29Billion for fresh elections and only MK15Billion for Coronavirus and we are saying let’s go and vote exposing the 17 Million Malawians to the risk of contracting the virus because the courts ordered us to vote within 150 days. Have we lost our minds?” questioned Lipipa.
Malawi Electrol Commission (MEC) announced that fresh elections for presidential will be held on July 2, 2020.
Lipipa said that conducting an election means that people will be campaigning and on the date of voting people will queue to cast their votes which will potentially put people’s lives at risk of contracting the virus.
“Malawi’s economy is already hard pressed and would have to spread itself out even thinner if elections were to occur during the pandemic. Let’s not make Malawi a laughing stock and a shame in the face of the world. We can do politics after we conquer this common enemy the coronavirus,” he added.
Ethiopia has postponed parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Despite registering any cases of the pandemic, Malawi president Peter Mutharika declared the country as State of Disaster and directed that all schools, colleges (including technical colleges), both public and private universities should be closed and restricted public gatherings to less than 100 people as prevention measures.
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