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- 1Taxpayer Money Subsidizes Billionaires' Private Jet Emissions●Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets
A new report by Common Dreams argues that working-class taxpayers are effectively subsidizing billionaires' private jets, which produce outsized carbon emissions per passenger. The outlet says tax breaks and public funding flow toward private aviation while ordinary people bear the costs of climate change. Critics are renewing calls to strip subsidies from ultra-emitting luxury travel.
- 2Syria Grants Fly Dar First Private Airline License Since Assad's Fall●Syria Grants Fly Dar First Private Airline Operating Certificate Since Assad’s Fall
Syria has issued its first private airline operating certificate since the fall of the Assad regime, awarding it to the carrier Fly Dar. The move signals the new government's effort to reopen the country's aviation sector to private enterprise after decades of state control. Observers see it as an early test of how far economic liberalization will go under the post-Assad authorities, with implications for travel and reconstruction.