MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 20, 2026--
FlightHub ™, a leading North American online travel agency, is proud to introduce Coffee With Us, a new travel podcast that invites listeners into real conversations about how people experience travel today. Focused on affordability, accessibility, and authentic storytelling, the series explores the emotional side of travel and highlights the creative ways travellers make their trips happen.
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A podcast designed to connect and inspire
Coffee With Us brings listeners into intimate, relatable discussions that explore the joy, challenges, and resourcefulness behind modern travel. The podcast reflects FlightHub’s mission by sharing real travel experiences that bring affordability and connection into focus through lived storytelling. Each episode uses interviews, personal stories, and practical advice to help North Americans explore more without overspending.
“Travel today looks different for everyone, and we wanted to create a space where people can talk openly about what it really takes to explore the world,” said Ayoub Hissar, Director of Brand Marketing & Communications at FlightHub. “Coffee With Us highlights the emotional, practical, and human moments that shape the way people travel and how they are finding ways to make trips possible.”
Voices shaping the travel conversation
Recorded in FlightHub’s newly built in-house podcast studio in Montreal, Coffee With Us is built for year-round recording and content creation that supports ongoing storytelling across audio and video formats. The show brings together travellers from all walks of life, including frequent flyers, first-time adventurers, industry partners, FlightHub employees, and well-travelled guests with unique perspectives.
“Affordability sits at the core of today’s travel experience,” said Henri Chelhot, FlightHub’s Chief Executive Officer. “We are seeing people stretch budgets by finding new routes, new hacks, and new ways to make meaningful trips happen. Coffee With Us gives those stories a home and reminds us that inspiring travel doesn’t have to come with a high price tag.”
Each episode explores themes that reflect modern travel habits and the creativity required to make meaningful trips possible, including:
The format combines interviews, shorter storytelling episodes, and actionable travel insights, with every show ending in a signature rapid-fire “boarding pass” segment designed to leave listeners with quick takeaways for their next trip.
Designed to fuel FlightHub’s broader content ecosystem, Coffee With Us will also fuel clips, reels, articles, and newsletters that amplify the standout conversations and travel ideas.
Listen to Coffee With Us and explore how people are travelling today:
YouTube
Spotify
Soundcloud
About FlightHub
FlightHub™ is a leading North American online travel agency (OTA) based in Montréal, Canada. FlightHub proudly serves millions each year, enabling more people to visit new places and explore new cultures. FlightHub's goal is to offer travellers the most affordable flights, optimal itineraries, and exceptional customer service. The leading online travel agency (OTA) believes that broadening travel possibilities and connecting people across borders increases human consciousness, reduces fear, and inspires positive change. Founded in 2012, FlightHub has facilitated more than 30 million connections.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Tuesday approved a huge new Chinese Embassy in central London despite heavy pressure from lawmakers across the political spectrum over its potential security risks.
Local Government Secretary Steve Reed formally signed off on plans for the building near the Tower of London after years of delays and legal challenges.
Critics have long expressed concerns that the supersized embassy, set to be the biggest Chinese Embassy in Europe, will be used as a base for espionage as well as pose a heightened threat of surveillance and intimidation of Chinese dissidents in exile.
But the government said it had worked “with policing, and other relevant partners, to ensure that the breadth of national security issues associated with this planning application have been considered and addressed."
Plans for the embassy have been plagued by objections and protests since 2018, when China’s government bought the site at Royal Mint Court, where Britain's money was once made, for 225 million pounds ($301 million.)
Opponents say the huge site sits too close to underground fiber optic cables carrying sensitive financial information between London’s two main financial districts. British media have reported that the 20,000 square meter (215,278 square feet) complex would include 208 secret basement rooms close to the data cables.
Dissidents have been among those who have protested the plans, saying a mega-embassy housing large numbers of officials would further China’s repression of activists abroad.
Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition Conservative Party, joined hundreds of protesters who chanted “no China mega embassy” at the site Sunday.
Conservative foreign affairs spokeswoman Priti Patel said “Keir Starmer has sold off our national security to the Chinese Communist Party with his shameful super embassy surrender.”
Conservative security spokeswoman Alicia Kearns said the decision would likely face a court challenge.
Helena Kennedy, a human rights lawyer and Labour Party member of the House of Lords, said the decision was a dangerous step.
“We cannot reinforce the dangerous notion that Britain will continue to make concessions — such as granting a mega-embassy — without reciprocity or regard for the rule of law," she said.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has repeatedly postponed its decision in recent months after multiple cases of alleged Chinese spying and political interference underlined concerns about the proposed embassy.
In November, the domestic intelligence agency MI5 issued an alert to lawmakers warning that Chinese agents were making “targeted and widespread” efforts to recruit and cultivate them using LinkedIn or cover companies.
Beijing has strongly denied those claims, calling them “pure fabrication and malicious slander.”
U.K. security services gave the greenlight to the embassy development.
Some security experts say the risks are manageable and that the embassy has the advantage of consolidating China’s current seven diplomatic premises in London onto one site.
The government said that “no bodies with responsibility for national security ... have raised concerns or objected to the proposal on the basis of the proximity of the cables or other underground infrastructure.”
Starmer has stressed that while protecting national security is non-negotiable, Britain needs to keep up diplomatic dialogue and cooperation with the Asian superpower.
The approval is widely expected to pave the way for a long-anticipated trip by Starmer to China, and an expansion of the U.K. Embassy in Beijing. The closely watched visit would be the first made by a British prime minister since 2018.
China has complained about the seven-year delay in approving the project, saying the U.K. was “constantly complicating and politicizing the matter.”
Demonstrators hold placards and flags as they attend a protest against the opening of the new Chinese embassy, in London, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
A general view of Royal Mint Court where is planning site for the new London Chinese embassy, near London's financial district, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
