https://www.scmp.com/rss/507385/feed Samanth Subramanian is a London-based journalist who writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Guardian. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Like all exiles, Michael Fleming remembers when his separation from home soil began: October 20, 2015. A Tuesday. That year, Fleming was captain of Wentworth, an old, prestigious golf club in Surrey, England. The club had recently been bought by a Chinese firm, Reignwood, and an annual general meeting was scheduled for the 20th. That morning, having drafted his speech, Fleming was in his dentistry clinic when he received the email. Brace for change, Wentworth wrote to Fleming and his colleagues,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3130403/battle-wentworth-culture-clash-between-thai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3130403/battle-wentworth-culture-clash-between-thai?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Apr 2021 05:15:05 +0000 When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip-to-wingtip with other unwanted planes. From the air, the planes look like the bleached remains of some long-forgotten skeleton. Europe’s biggest boneyard is built on the site of a late-30s airfield in Teruel, in eastern Spain, where the dry climate is kind to metallic airframes. Many planes are here for short-term storage, biding their time while they change... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3103928/covid-19-has-grounded-airline-industry-will-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3103928/covid-19-has-grounded-airline-industry-will-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:45:08 +0000