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The Boeing 737 MAX is the fastest-selling plane in company history. Boeing has 4,699 737 MAX orders on the books with more than 200 delivered to customers. The plane’s major customers include Southwest, American, United, Ryanair, Norwegian, and China Southern. The 737 MAX currently operates with more than 42 airlines around the world. The Boeing …
Royal Caribbean Cruises has been ordered to pay $3.38 million to the family of a passenger who died on one of the company’s ships, The Miami Herald reports. The passenger, Richard Puchalski, reportedly died of a heart attack on Royal Caribbean‘s Explorer of the Seas ship in 2016. A federal jury in Miami reportedly ruled …
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crash shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport on Sunday. The crashed killed all 157 passengers and crew on board the four-month-old plane. Aviation regulators in China, Indonesia, and Ethiopia grounded all of their Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. US airlines such as Southwest, American, and United have all …
The US State Department issued a travel warning for India due to crime and terrorism after a troubling rise of terror attacks and sexual assault. The State Department urges “increased caution” for travelers heading to the country, and especially for women. The warning comes after India suffered a terror attack that brought it on the …
An Ethiopian Airlines plane has crashed en route to Nairobi leaving 157 people dead. There were 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board. No survivors were found after an intense fire at the scene. The plane crashed near the town of Bishoftu, near the capital Addis Ababa. The prime minister tweeted his condolences to …
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A year ago, I left New York to travel around the world as Business Insider’s international correspondent. Over that time, I’ve visited over 20 countries, taken dozens of flights, and stayed in nearly 100 hotels. Planes are notoriously dry places with humidity lower than the Sahara Desert. I am very sensitive to dry plane air, …
Cruise ship passengers can be exposed to legal systems that don’t provide the same protections they would find in the US. When a cruise ship docks at a port, its passengers are subject to the laws of the country in which the port is located. This can lead to warrantless searches from local police, the …
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After traveling to dozens of countries, I’ve found that the best experiences I’ve had have not come from fancy meals or tourist attractions but from saying yes to meeting new people. On a recent trip to Egypt, I contacted a distant acquaintance for tips and ended up being offered a place to stay in a …
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Adrian Shepherd is a British productivity consultant who’s lived and worked in Japan for the past 24 years. Over that time he’s had a front row seat to how business is conducted there and has learned four powerful business lessons that can help anyone. For instance, attention to detail is crucial — and rules are …
The US Department of State issued a travel advisory in Jamaica on March 8. Violent crime — including sexual assault and homicide — is “common,” according to the department’s website. Government personnel are barred from driving outside of certain neighborhoods of Kingston, the country’s largest city and capital, at night. Fifty-seven other countries have the …
SLEEEP is Hong Kong’s first capsule hotel, a concept invented in Japan in the late 1970s that aims to provide cheap, convenient “sleeping pods” for travelers who do not require the services of a full hotel. I stayed at SLEEEP last March on a business trip to Hong Kong. It cost around $75 USD per …
American Airlines has grounded 14 Boeing 737-800 due to poorly installed overhead bins. The airline found substandard work in the cabins of two Boeing 737-800s that recently received updated interiors. American said it decided to ground the two affected aircraft and proactively ground 12 additional aircraft that were worked on by the same vendor. In …
Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a vision of how Facebook services will become the backbone for the way people live online, Business Insider’s Shona Ghosh writes. Zuckerberg’s vision for Facebook is uncannily similar to how the WeChat app dominates modern life in China, serving a variety of functions from messaging, social networking, and e-commerce to …
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I travel for weeks at a time with just one piece of luggage: a carry-on suitcase My mantra is, if the product isn’t multi-purpose, it isn’t coming with me. The first thing I eliminate is shoes—it’s the biggest space saver. Checking luggage just isn’t for me. It’s partially because I’m opposed to the notion that …
I recently flew in business class for the first time in my life. My flight was a 14-hour flight from Dubai to New York operated by Emirates on the Airbus A380 superjumbo, the largest and most expensive commercial airliner in history. While there were a lot of perks that blew me away — including the …
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A year ago, I left New York to travel around the world as Business Insider’s international correspondent. Over that time, I’ve visited over 20 countries, taken dozens of flights, and stayed in nearly 100 hotels. A lot of travel bloggers recommend Global Entry, a US government program for approving “trusted travelers” to gain quicker access …
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Through recent mergers, airlines such as American, Delta, and United have grown to become colossal mega-carriers. Recently, aviation data firm OAG provided us with data sets that ranked the 20 largest airlines in the world based on the number of seats each carrier made available to passengers during 2018. As expected, US carriers made a …
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I moved from Connecticut to San Francisco more than 30 years ago. I was surprised by several things about living in San Francisco, like the chilly summers and people’s shyness about crossing the street. I’m still not used to all of the cultural differences between the East Coast and West Coast. I visited California just …