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Lauren Sánchez weighed too much to be flight attendant

Lauren Sánchez weighed too much to be flight attendant

Lauren Sanchez, the girlfriend of Jeff Bezos, shared that she was rejected from becoming a flight attendant because of her weight. (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Journalist and helicopter pilot Lauren Sánchez was once rejected as a flight attendant by Southwest Airlines for weighing too much. In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, Sánchez, 53, shared that she didn’t make the cut for Southwest’s weight limitations back in 1989. After leaving home at age 18, Sánchez, who is currently… Source link

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Southwest stock sinks after mass flight cancellations, scrutiny from Biden admin

Southwest stock sinks after mass flight cancellations, scrutiny from Biden admin

Shares of Southwest (LUV) sank as much as 6% on Tuesday after the airline canceled thousands of flights, leaving passengers stranded at airports and drawing scrutiny from federal officials. Southwest had canceled more than 2,590 flights on Tuesday as of 2:30 p.m. ET, or about 63% of its scheduled flights, according to tracker FlightAware. The disruption exacerbates a meltdown that began over the holiday weekend and saw 2,900 flights canceled on Monday. The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT)… Source link

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Brittney Griner ‘talked about everything under the sun’ with flight crew on trip home after prisoner exchange

Brittney Griner ‘talked about everything under the sun’ with flight crew on trip home after prisoner exchange

Brittney Griner was ready to talk on her 18-hour flight back to the United States earlier this week. According to special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens, who helped secure Griner’s release from a Russian prison, the WNBA star spoke with him and others for nearly two-thirds of the flight from the United Arab Emirates to San Antonio on Thursday. “When she finally got onto the U.S. plane, I said, ‘Brittney, you must have been through a lot over the last 10 months…. Source link

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Year in Search: Google reveals top trending flight searches of 2022

Year in Search: Google reveals top trending flight searches of 2022

Editor’s Note — Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations opening, inspiration for future adventures, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. (CNN) — Google has released its annual roundup of Year in Search trends, which covers a wide variety of topics, including tourism. It’s no surprise that travel-related searches picked up big time in 2022, as more destinations re-opened and dropped… Source link

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Odell Beckham Jr. escorted off plane after reportedly ‘coming in and out of consciousness’ before flight

Odell Beckham Jr. escorted off plane after reportedly ‘coming in and out of consciousness’ before flight

Free-agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was kicked off a plane Sunday after the flight crew reportedly observed him “coming in and out of consciousness,” according to Miami-Dade police. The crew feared Beckham was seriously ill after trying to wake him to put on his seatbelt, and that his condition would worsen during the flight, so they called for police and a fire crew. Beckham reportedly would not leave the flight when asked by the crew, leading to the entire plane being evacuated…. Source link

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Google accused of airbrushing carbon emissions in flight search results | Google

Google accused of airbrushing carbon emissions in flight search results | Google

Google has been accused of airbrushing aviation emissions, after the company changed its flight search engine to halve the CO2 emissions attributed to any given trip. The change, first noted by the BBC, affects a feature on Google Flights that shows the estimated carbon emissions of each route. The company flags routes with higher or lower than typical emissions, and also reports the total CO2 emitted per passenger on any given journey. But in July this year, Google pushed through a change… Source link

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Washington Nationals didn’t charter flight for Juan Soto

Washington Nationals didn’t charter flight for Juan Soto

The Juan Soto saga took another weird turn Monday night. The current-but-possibly-on-the-trade-block outfielder for the Washington Nationals arrived less than 24 hours before the Home Run Derby after Soto flew commercially to Los Angeles following the team’s series against the Atlanta Braves in D.C. That drew the ire of Soto’s agent, Scott Boras, who pointed out how unfair it was that players from the Braves were chartered to All-Star Weekend but the Nationals couldn’t do the same for Soto.

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Delta Air Lines CEO just revealed a harsh truth about why your flight was canceled

Delta Air Lines CEO just revealed a harsh truth about why your flight was canceled

So far, travel this summer has been characterized by long lines at airports, a spate of flight delays and cancellations, and unprecedented amounts of lost luggage. All of which make for one of the most chaotic travel seasons in recent memory. It’s so bad that Delta Air Lines sent an empty plane to one of the world’s biggest hubs, London Heathrow, just to fly over 1,000 lost pieces of luggage back to the U.S. This Wednesday, Delta became the first airline to release quarterly earnings,… Source link

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Elon Musk was accused of sexual misconduct by a SpaceX flight attendant: report

Elon Musk was accused of sexual misconduct by a SpaceX flight attendant: report

SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Elon Musk after a flight attendant on the company’s corporate jet accused the CEO of exposing himself to her mid-flight, Insider reports. According to Insider, the incident happened in 2016 and the company settled with the unnamed flight attendant in 2018, according to a friend of the flight attendant who was told contemporaneously about the incident but is not bound by any non-disclosure agreements with the company. Musk… Source link

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Google Selects Prince Harry-Backed Travalyst for Emissions Data on Flight Searches

Google Selects Prince Harry-Backed Travalyst for Emissions Data on Flight Searches

Skift Take With the search engine also publishing the methodology and framework for other travel sellers to adopt, there’s a greater chance that carbon emissions data will eventually become standardized, and less confusing. But there’s still a long way to go. Matthew Parsons Google is using a new method to collect and display flight emissions data that’s been developed by Travalyst, marking the latest step in the coalition’s efforts to push bookers… Source link

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