From London to Barcelona in an airship: 80 years after the Hindenburg tragedy, journeys aboard the giant of the skies are back

LONDON – Will there be an aircraft from the past in the future of transport? This is the bet of the Airlander, a prototype of an airship that promises to relaunch a slow, antiquated and badly finished vehicle: it would take four hours to fly from London to Barcelona, ​​but would cause a tenth of the pollution of airplanes, responsible for 6 per cent of global harmful emissions.