The anonymity of the richest woman in Spain lasted 45 years. That's how old Sandra Ortega Mera was when her mother (Amancio Ortega's first wife, with whom he founded Zara parent company Inditex) died unexpectedly of a stroke during a holiday in Menorca. When she wen to the morgue, photographers and television cameras surrounded her and offered the first glimpse of a woman with short red hair who has amassed a fortune of over than €5.6bn, according to Forbes.

"I got the idea for Netflix after I was bought out of the company. They gave me a penalty for late delivery on Apollo 13. I was six weeks late and owed $40 to the video store. It was my fault and I didn't want to tell my wife, and I asked myself, 'Do I want to put my marriage at risk for a penalty?" explained company co-founder Reed Hastings years ago in an article in the New York Times. "Later, I went to the gym and realized they had a much better business model, because by paying $30 or $40 a month I could go as much as I wanted", Hastings added in the same article.

In the Tintin comic The Crab with the Golden Claws one of the intrepid Belgian reporter's troubles ended with the crash-landing of a seaplane. The ship, shiny yellow and equipped with floats to soften the crash against the waves of the sea, this time exchanged the water for the burning sand of the Sahara desert. In the collective imagination, seaplanes are more a part of war and adventure films than of the usual passenger transport. But among the unforeseeable consequences of the pandemic there has also been a sudden return of these ships to the Països Catalans. Isla Air is a rare avis. An airline based in Palma that was born in a context that has changed the rules of the game in its sector, and flying the flag of an airplane model that only holds 19 passengers. "We had been working on the project for three years, but in the meantime we got caught up in the pandemic", explains Antoni Massana, who is responsible for the Balearic Islands.