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Europe's aviation industry is sounding the alarm this winter. Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary has cut one million seats from Belgium and is warning of steep fare rises by two thousand twenty seven. He's also calling out what he sees as an uneven playing field, demanding that US and Chinese carriers pay the same taxes European airlines do. O'Leary didn't mince words, calling EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen useless in the process.
Turning to space, and a significant milestone for planetary science. The MMX mission has successfully launched the Idefix rover, now en route to Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars. It's a joint effort led by the German Aerospace Center and partners, and represents one of the most ambitious attempts yet to study a Martian moon up close and return samples to Earth.
And closer to home, digital finance platform Revolut is experiencing outages for a portion of its users today. Reports are surfacing across social media and Reddit, though the company has yet to issue a formal statement. For a platform handling millions of daily transactions across Europe, even brief disruptions raise real questions about infrastructure resilience at scale.
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