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American Airlines to Restart Non-Stop Flights Linking New York’s JFK and Tokyo’s Haneda Airports
Flagship First meal service on board an American Airlines flight from JFK to Haneda in 2012 American Airlines announced the restart of...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 1: A Special Report – The U.S. CDC Shortens Isolation Time But the Fat Lady Has Yet to Sing
The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center...
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Great Moments in Travel History – March 2024
March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb. The saying, which likely stems from astronomy, likely references the position of the...
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Tra-La, It’s Here: Today is the First Day of Spring
Spring is here. With the advent of March, we leave meteorological winter and enter meteorological spring. Depending on where you are in the...
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‘Treacherous’ and ‘Life-Threatening’ Blizzard to Criple Parts of California With Up to 13’ of Snow. Expect Numerous Flight Delays
A severe late winter storm will bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions to parts of Northern California from Thursday through the weekend and...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief– Feb. 29: World Covid Deaths Now 7 Million, Healthcare Quality in U.S. Falls, As Did Yellow Cab Trips in New York
The Zentralfriedhof, or Central Cemetery, Tor IV, in Vienna Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for...
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Apple Ends Fool’s Errand to Build EV After Spending $10 Billion on Development, Mercedes Applies the Brakes on All-Electric Fleet
As electric vehicles struggle to gain acceptance by U.S. automobile buyers, automakers as well as wannabe automakers are hitting headwinds...
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26 Airlines That Went Out of Business in the First Two Decades of the 21st Century
Pan Am, Trans World Airlines. These storied names of the last century are well known to regular readers of our publications. A mere mention still...
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Today is Leap Day. Here’s What You Need to Know and Where to Get Leap Year Freebies
Today, Thursday, February 29, is Leap Day or Leap Year Day, an extra day that comes around almost every four years where the Gregorian calendar is...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief– Feb. 28: CDC Says Seniors Should Get Another Jab, TikTok’s Mystery Virus
Traffic at night on the Cross-Bronx Expressway Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid...
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50 Million in Eastern U.S. Face Severe Weather Warnings With Damaging Winds, Flight Delays, Hazardous Driving Conditions
The severe weather is expected to make driving and road conditions extremely hazardous. Nearly 50 million people across the mid-Atlantic...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief– Feb. 27: Man Pleads Guilty in Covid Testing Kickback Scheme, Portable Device Could Test Air for SARS-CoV-2
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid...
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Hilton and AutoCamp Partner to Host Guests in Luxury Airstream Trailers at U.S. National Parks
A 1960s vintage Airstream trailer Hilton Worldwide announced a partnership with outdoor lodging company AutoCamp. The move marks the...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief– Feb. 26: New York City Gets Covid Genome Sequencing Lab, Medical School Gets $1B Donation, Food Allergy Breakthrough
The Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains, St. Moritz Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid...
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Access to Potable Water is Essential to Good Health and Mexico City’s Water Tank is Running on Empty
Life without clean water. Sounds crazy, no? Like a fiddler on a roof. But, just like there can be a fiddler on a roof, millions of people lack...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief– Feb. 25: Suit Over ‘General Hospital’ Vaccine Mandate, Supreme Court Rejects Mask Appeal from MTG
The seventh and final generation Apple iPod Touch Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid...
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The AT&T Blackout, One of the Biggest Cellular Network Outages in Recent Memory, Wasn’t Due to Hackers or Solar Flares But to Human Error
Everyone chimed in: The Space Weather Prediction Center (yes, this is a thing and it’s part of the National Weather Service which, in...
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Buyer of Former Trump Hotel in Historic D.C. Post Office Building, Now a Waldorf Astoria, Defaulted on Loan Payments
The Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C. The new owner of what was once the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.,...
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‘Wing Coming Apart.’ United Airlines Flight Forced to Make Emergency Landing Due to Damaged Wing
Coach cabin of a United Airlines Boeing 757 A United Airlines transcon flight bound for Boston was forced to make an emergency landing in...
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When Does Daylight Saving Time Start This Year?
When do the clocks change? We all know that clocks don’t really change: We just move the hands forward or backwards one hour. But why do we do...
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Airline Employees Sentenced ‘Reservation Skimming Fraud Scheme’ That Cost the Carrier Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Information and customer service area at Philadelphia International Airport The Philadelphia-based mastermind behind a scheme by former...
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Air Canada to Increase Capacity, Cap Some Fares to Aid Lynx Air Passengers
An Air Canada aircraft in Toronto Air Canada said it plans to add over 6,000 seats in some markets served by Lynx Air, the troubled...
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Canadian Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier Lynx Air to Ground Operations, Cites Many ‘Significant Headwinds’
Toronto Pearson International Airport Lynx Air, a Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta,, said it will stop flying...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief– Feb. 23: More on Long Covid Brain Fog, Baltimore Must Spend $641 Million in Pandemic Funds
New York City’s new Hudson Yards train station Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long...
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It’s Time to Unbundle the Term ‘Long Covid’ and Define Long Covid Endotypes
As more studies on the causes of Long Covid come out, one thing is becoming increasingly clear, something that I’ve pointed out many times over...