Helicopters have a lot going for them. They’re nimble, just what you need to shuttle luxury hotel guests to their cliffside suites, to ferry oil workers to offshore rigs, and, critically, to rescue hikers or skiers after an avalanche.
One of the most annoying things a fellow airline passenger can do is sit down next to us. Now Etihad Airways is selling a solution.
Here’s a logistics challenge Amazon can’t solve in a pinch: How to get hundreds of interns to its Seattle, Washington headquarters each day. So Amazon is getting some help from an unlikely place—a county government.
American Airlines is no fan of the world’s favorite airline, Qatar Airways. The feeling isn’t mutual.
Amazon expressed its voracious appetite for new corners of commerce last week with its agreement to spend nearly $14 billion to acquire high-end grocery chain Whole Foods.
The latest reason your flight is cancelled? Climate change.
Among the lies I tell myself before business trips are two old favorites: “I’ll stick to seltzer and lime at cocktail hour” and ”I’m going to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise.”
Saving up for a vacation used to mean sacrificing smaller splurges like dinners out, new clothes, daily lattes, and cupping therapy (just me?)
Everyone could use a vacation, but few more than the CEO of Uber. Travis Kalanick, who earlier this week announced plans to take a break from running the ride-hailing company he founded in 2009, has been plagued by scandal after scandal In fact, many of Uber’s problems started with someone (usually a guy, often Kalanick) saying something they shouldn’t have. Which suggests the only foolproof way to take a drama-free leave of absence is to spend it not talking to anyone.
If you want some food in your hotel room, chances are you’ll have to put on pants. Pants presentable enough for a walk down to the lobby, where other guests are sipping cappuccinos in lounge chairs, typing away on their laptops. Pants appropriate for the cocktail bar, where a local mixologist is serving up her latest concoction. Pants that are particularly necessary in the first-floor eatery, a cafe that turns into a hip barbecue joint after dark.
People obsessed with credit card rewards have turned the business mantra “you have to spend money to make money” into a rigorous daily practice.
First went the professional athletes. Then went the sushi restaurant. Now employees and a fixture of a five-star hotel—turndown service—are the latest to go from a five-star Trump hotel in lower Manhattan.
Your laptop isn’t the only item you’ll have to part with at airport security.
A 12-seat business jet may be the first civilian airplane to break the speed of sound since the Concorde’s last flight in 2003.
Amazon may want fewer humans in its vast shipping network, but that’s tough to do when you have planes to fly.
A commuter’s dungeon on a good day, New York’s Pennsylvania Station is in crisis.
In a debate over air travel safety, US and European officials agree on one thing: Laptops on flights could be dangerous.
International tourists have vastly different habits when it comes to tipping in restaurants (if at all), jumping queues, and staking out precious space on the beach.
It’s wedding season—and debt is in the air.
You’re not the only one with airline woes. A shipment of bees destined for Alaska were found dead last week, during a layover in Seattle.
In March, the US government prohibited passengers from bringing electronics larger than a cell phone in the cabins of nonstop flights to the US from 10 airports in the Middle East and North Africa, citing concerns that terrorists could use the devices to carry explosives on board. Passengers on those routes are required to store these devices in their checked luggage. The British government followed suit with its own ban on UK-bound flights from the Middle East days later.
Celebrities are not just like us when it comes to travel.
Angry passengers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s airport violently clashed with Spirit Airlines employees and law-enforcement officers the evening of May 8, after the low-cost carrier cancelled flights due to a labor dispute with its pilots.
If you are looking some sympathy for your terrible experience on a US airline, don’t ask Warren Buffett.
