Both EVA and TG from BKK to LHR yesterday took 12 hours 30 minutes with multiple changes of course during the flight. Had the pleasure (not!) of flying over Iranian airspace. Both flights experienced nauseating turbulence over the Black Sea.
Maybe they can use some of the money from the Submarine saving. However, it would be better to spend some money on curing the smog, so that people could actually see the race.
I worked on the Thames Barrier in London back in the late 70's, early 80's and the piling contractor for the piers was a Dutch company called HBM. Fantastic group of engineers.
The two main British contractors were Costain and Tarmac, The consortium was known as CTH.
I asked one of my colleagues yesterday, whether she would be using the BTS next week? Unfortunately, she said "no", as there were too many Chinese tourists using the system and she did not want to pick up a disease!