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Croatia Airlines schedules A319 retirement within weeks

Croatia Airlines has tentatively scheduled the retirement of its remaining Airbus A319 aircraft for next month as it accelerates its transition towards an all-A220 in-house fleet. Based on the carrier’s current schedule filing, the type is due to operate its final commercial service on October 11. The A319’s last day of operations is presently scheduled to involve flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, continuing to Rome, before returning to Dubrovnik and finally Zagreb. However, the allocation remains tentative and is highly likely to change as the airline adjusts its fleet deployment. Nevertheless, the filing provides an indication that Croatia Airlines plans to end A319 operations imminently. The carrier currently has four active A319s, registered 9A-CTG, 9A-CTH, 9A-CTL and 9A-CTN. The type has formed part of Croatia Airlines’ fleet since 1998 and has been deployed extensively across its domestic and European network. The aircraft are configured with 144 seats. Their withdrawal will follow the retirement of Croatia Airlines’ final Airbus A320 earlier this year. The last aircraft of the type, registered 9A-CTO, operated its final commercial service between Zagreb and Amsterdam on January 26, bringing an end to almost three decades of A320 operations at the airline. The accelerated phase-out of the A319s comes as Croatia Airlines continues the largest fleet renewal programme in its history. The carrier currently operates eleven A220s, comprising nine A220-300s and two smaller A220-100s. It expects to take delivery of a further three A220 aircraft by the end of this year, subject to the manufacturer’s delivery schedule. The fifteenth and final jet from the current order is due to arrive in 2027. Croatia Airlines will continue operating its remaining three Dash 8 Q400 turboprops during the 2026/27 winter season. They are expected to be retired at the end of the scheduling period in late March 2027. The airline will then operate an all-A220 in-house fleet, supplemented by wet-leased ATR72 turboprops. Its ATR operations are expected to expand next summer , with a second aircraft planned and the number of flights operated by the type set to increase significantly. EX-YU Aviation News

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Private sector steps up to help communities get ahead of El Niño | World Food Programme

Country: World Source: World Food Programme The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed USD 7.75 million to protect lives and livelihoods ahead of forecasted weather emergencies and disasters. ROME, Italy – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a new USD 7.75 million contribution from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to scale up actions ahead of forecasted weather shocks, including the potential impact of El Niño. This is the largest ever private sector investment in WFP anticipatory action and will help vulnerable communities protect lives, preserve livelihoods and better ensure food security before a predicted crisis hits. The support comes as forecasts indicate the current El Niño could be among the strongest ever recorded. WFP’s own analysis projects that its effects could push 49 million people into acute food insecurity by the end of 2027. WFP will be able to direct this new funding flexibly across 22 countries facing the highest risk of weather-related emergencies. Depending on specific forecasts and operational needs, the support may include providing anticipatory cash transfers to communities at risk, as well as lending WFP’s expertise in early warning systems and predictive analytics to countries in need. “Scientific innovations, including advances in data and forecasting, are creating new opportunities to act before crises escalate,” said Rikke Johannessen, Director of Global Development at the Novo Nordisk Foundation. “Where shocks can be anticipated with sufficient confidence, acting in advance can reduce the scale and severity of humanitarian needs, and enable a more effective, cost-efficient and dignified response for people most at risk.” “This is a powerful signal on how the private sector drives a new generation of humanitarian action,” said Rania Dagash-Kamara, WFP Assistant Executive Director for Partnerships and Innovation. “It acts on early warning and equips communities to withstand climate shocks before they become emergencies. Thank you, Novo Nordisk Foundation.” Together, WFP and the Novo Nordisk Foundation will promote the FAO-WFP Joint Anticipatory Action Appeal , which seeks to protect 8.8 million people across 22 high-risk countries. This contribution builds on a partnership that since 2022 has supported emergency response and home-grown school feeding programmes. For partners interested in supporting anticipatory action, WFP is seeking investments to: Expand anticipatory cash assistance for communities facing forecast climate shocks. Strengthen early warning systems and predictive analytics in high-risk countries. Support coordinated action through the FAO-WFP Joint Anticipatory Action Appeal. Increase the resilience of vulnerable populations facing recurrent climate risks. The announcement comes ahead of the UN General Assembly and New York Climate Week, highlighting the role that philanthropy, governments, the private sector and humanitarian organizations can play in shifting from responding to crises to anticipating and preventing their worst impacts. # # # The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, via @wfp Italy Disaster risk reduction & anticipatory actions Funding Climate For more information please contact (email address: firstname.lastname@wfp.org): Julian Miglierini, WFP/ Rome, Mob. +39 348 2316793 Katharina Weltecke, WFP/Rome, Mob. +39 3479295220 Nina McCarthy Hartman, WFP/Copenhagen, +45 51 89 19 62 Nicola Kelly, WFP/ London, Mob. +44 (0)796 8008 474Martin Rentsch, WFP/Berlin, Mob +49 160 99 26 17 30 Rene McGuffin, WFP/ Washington Mob. +1 771 245 4268

ReliefWebReliefWeb•World Food Programme17 Sept

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for rice, aubergine and mozzarella bake | A kitchen in Rome

A 1950s cookbook classic – eat it hot and stringy or firm and flavoursome Yesterday’s lunch and this week’s recipe is thanks to my friend, the designer Jake Tilson , who gave me a pristine 1977 edition of The Talisman Italian Cook Book . With a cover of red, white and green stripes cover that makes me think as much of seaside rock as Italy’s national colours, the edition was part of the 24th printing of the US translation of Il Talismano della Felicità (The Talisman of Happiness), by Ada Boni. First published in 1950, the abridged translation was sold as a complete guide to Italian cookery, covering all notable dishes. Well, on the cover at least; inside, the introduction is more realistic, warning the reader that, “to criticise the writer [Boni] or translator [Mrs Matilde La Rosa] for failing to include certain dishes is useless”, because no living man or woman can be acquainted with all the variety of dishes of a such variegated country. The introduction, by a man called Mario A Pei, goes on to explain that the variety of dishes mirrors the wide dialectical array in Italy at the time (1950); its diversity of speech, customs, costumes, psychology and general world outlook. In the next sentence, he notes that this variety was undoubtedly a very bad thing from the standpoint of national unity and progress (the professor and polyglot was an ardent supporter of European fascism and uniting humans under one language). Not that you would guess that from his following sentence: “Variety is the spice of life.” I regretted reading his introduction, and also telling an Italian friend, who said, laughing: “You don’t know the half of it”, in reference to my romanticism about the original Talismano , which may be great, but also (in her opinion) endorses a Stepford Wives fantasy of womanhood; a journey with Boni as patient guide. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rachel Roddy17 Sept