IAG praises Heathrow and IATA asks for help – all in a cheerless hangar

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A dead queen, a new king, a new prime minister, a collapsing currency and soaring inflation: welcome to the UK, now an emerging market economy.

Against this exciting backdrop, IATA’s World Cargo Symposium opened today in London.

Well, nearly London. In fact, it’s at the vast Excel Centre in the ’Far East’ of the capital, a warehouse-like space with all the ambience of an aircraft hangar – a place where 1,300 delegates can easily feel like 130.

And the extraordinary nature of the ...