Emirates will operate five weekly flights to Bali from May 1. Photo: Irfan Maulidi
Emirates will operate five weekly flights to Bali from May 1. Photo: Irfan Maulidi
Emirates will operate five weekly flights to Bali from May 1. Photo: Irfan Maulidi
Emirates will operate five weekly flights to Bali from May 1. Photo: Irfan Maulidi

Emirates to resume operations to Bali, London Stanstead, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires


Selina Denman
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Emirates has announced plans to restart services to four destinations, Bali, London Stanstead, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. It will also boost frequencies on flights to Nigeria, Mauritius and Singapore to cater to growing demand.

From May 1, Emirates will operate five weekly flights to Bali, using a two-class Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Frequencies will be further increased on July 1, when the airline starts serving the island destination with daily flights.

Flights to London Stansted will resume on Monday, August 1, initially starting five times a week and then increasing to daily on Thursday, September 1. These will be operated on a Boeing 777-300ER fitted with the Game Changer First Class product for this aircraft.

By October, Emirates will offer 110 weekly flights to the UK, six times a day to London Heathrow, twice daily to Gatwick, three times a day to Manchester, twice a day to Birmingham, daily to Glasgow and five times a week to Newcastle.

Four weekly flights to Buenos Aires will be operated via Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Sadie Teper
Four weekly flights to Buenos Aires will be operated via Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Sadie Teper

The four new weekly flights to Buenos Aires will be operated via Rio de Janeiro, starting on Wednesday, November 2. This will be scaled up to a daily service from Wednesday, February 1, 2023. With the resumption of these four services, the Emirates network will span more than 130 destinations, across six continents.

The airline is also boosting frequencies on its flights to Lagos, which will welcome 11 weekly flights from July and then a twice-daily service from Thursday, September 1; and Abuja, which will be served by daily flights, also from September 1. Nine flights a week will be operated to Mauritius from this Saturday, growing to two flights a day from July. Finally, the airline will increase passenger services to Singapore, from seven weekly flights to 14 weekly flights from Thursday, June 23.

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One in four Americans don't plan to retire

Nearly a quarter of Americans say they never plan to retire, according to a poll that suggests a disconnection between individuals' retirement plans and the realities of ageing in the workforce.

Experts say illness, injury, layoffs and caregiving responsibilities often force older workers to leave their jobs sooner than they'd like.

According to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research, 23 per cent of workers, including nearly two in 10 of those over 50, don't expect to stop working. Roughly another quarter of Americans say they will continue working beyond their 65th birthday.

According to government data, about one in five people 65 and older was working or actively looking for a job in June. The study surveyed 1,423 adults in February this year.

For many, money has a lot to do with the decision to keep working.

"The average retirement age that we see in the data has gone up a little bit, but it hasn't gone up that much," says Anqi Chen, assistant director of savings research at the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College. "So people have to live in retirement much longer, and they may not have enough assets to support themselves in retirement."

When asked how financially comfortable they feel about retirement, 14 per cent of Americans under the age of 50 and 29 per cent over 50 say they feel extremely or very prepared, according to the poll. About another four in 10 older adults say they do feel somewhat prepared, while just about one-third feel unprepared. 

"One of the things about thinking about never retiring is that you didn't save a whole lot of money," says Ronni Bennett, 78, who was pushed out of her job as a New York City-based website editor at 63.

She searched for work in the immediate aftermath of her layoff, a process she describes as akin to "banging my head against a wall." Finding Manhattan too expensive without a steady stream of income, she eventually moved to Portland, Maine. A few years later, she moved again, to Lake Oswego, Oregon. "Sometimes I fantasise that if I win the lottery, I'd go back to New York," says Ms Bennett.

 

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