Two different airlines had massive internal errors over the holidays, which led to two unaccompanied minors boarding and flying on incorrect flights. Logan Lose, 16, was set to depart from Tampa International Airport on a Frontier Airlines flight on December 22 to go to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit his mother—but instead ended up in Puerto ..
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This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Paul Alex entered the police force as a trainee with the plan to build a career in law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Alex, 35, hit the ground running, eventually becoming a detective in the narcotics task force before being assigned to the special victims unit. ..
The Walt Disney Company no longer has a grasp on all things Mickey Mouse. The earliest version of the brand’s iconic mascot featured in Disney’s 1928 short film, “Steamboat Willie” entered the public domain after 95 years under U.S. copyright law. Although the “Steamboat Willie” Mickey doesn’t feature some of the mascot’s signature traits we ..
The once-fervent annual practice known as the mileage run, where travel enthusiasts strategically fly to accrue airline miles for elite status before the year’s end, might not be around much longer. For years, those mileage runs allowed air travelers to secure elite status for the next year and unlock practical benefits such as seat upgrades, ..
Las Vegas has already perfected the drive-thru wedding, but what about fly-by nuptials? The City of Las Vegas is hosting a pop-up marriage license bureau at Harry Reid International Airport this week through New Year’s Eve due to the “double whammy” of the Dec. 31 holiday and the specialty date of “1-2-3-1-2-3.” The Las Vegas ..
As the holiday season winds down, many American consumers are turning to Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) options to alleviate the pressure of gift-giving amidst increasing credit card debts and surging inflation. BNPL options offered by companies such as Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna allow for purchases to be paid in installments, often in six-week interest-free ..
SpaceX is launching its Falcon Heavy rocket Thursday night, sending the mysterious, uncrewed military spacecraft, the X-37B space plane, to orbit. The USSF-52 mission is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:07 p.m. and will stream live on SpaceX’s website. The spacecraft is launching on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ..
If your post-holiday plan involves sending back that less-than-perfect gift, you may want to brace yourself for a new reality: the end of the free return. As return rates hit new highs — 17% of purchases made in 2022 were sent back — retailers including Macy’s, Abercrombie, J. Crew, and H&M are among the many ..
This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Workers at Airbus Atlantic reportedly got an unpleasant Christmas surprise after a company dinner: Clinical vomiting and diarrhea. According to the Guardian and the BBC, French health authorities are investigating after around 700 workers at Airbus Atlantic fell ill following the aerospace company’s dinner for 2,600 workers. On ..
The case of a missing man in Camdenton, Missouri that’s been unsolved since December 2013 is finally seeing some answers — and authorities have a YouTuber to thank. Nearly a decade after 59-year-old Donald Erwin’s disappearance, YouTuber and videographer James Hinkle helped authorities locate human remains on Sunday in a private pond, according to a ..
