U.S. Customs and Border Protection staffing shortages are leaving arriving international travelers standing in line for nearly five hours at the busiest airports, according to a travel industry report. Peak wait times reached a high of 4.5 hours at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 2012. At …
Look at any electronic cigarette company’s website, and you’ll read that you can smoke the battery-operated devices almost anywhere. Up until recently, Blu eCigs boasted on its website that one benefit over traditional cigarettes is that you can “Smoke anywhere!” The website has since toned down its language to say …
Inside a decommissioned military hangar in Tustin, California, about 30 miles south of Los Angeles, sits what at first glance looks like the world’s biggest Mylar balloon. Closer inspection reveals a skeleton of carbon tubes clothed in a silver skin — an unwitting visitor might wonder if he’d wandered onto …
The year after the Great Recession, the number of visitors to Orlando hit an all-time high. And the country’s No. 1 travel destination hasn’t looked back since. Orlando welcomed 57 million people last year to set a third-consecutive record high, the area’s main visitors bureau announced this week. That included …
Joe Carcello has a great job. The 59-year-old has an annual salary of $52,700, gets five weeks of vacation a year, and is looking forward to retiring on the sizable nest egg in his 401(k), which his employer augments with matching funds. After 26 years at his company, he’s not …
Fugitive Edward Snowden is hoping to get to Ecuador, despite not having a valid passport. So when can you legally travel without one? The US state department has revoked Snowden’s passport and asked other countries to prevent him from travelling. Wanted on espionage charges, the American flew from Hong Kong …
When author Ragen Chastain flew cross-country on United Airlines (UAL) to give a talk at Dartmouth College last year, she sat in a standard coach aisle seat. At 5-foot-4 and 284 pounds, Chastain couldn’t fit comfortably in the Boeing (BA) 757’s 17-inch-wide seat. “One flight attendant kept slamming into my …
One day in August 2009, a geologist named Yuval Bartov sank a drill into the ground southwest of Jerusalem, pulled up a cylinder of rock and, in the same motion, turned the world upside down. The rock contained oil, something that Israel has never had. The oil did not happen …
McDonald’s all-day breakfast: The possibility is in the news after CEO opens the door to fresh ideas in an interview. But he doesn’t commit to widespread roll-out of all-day breakfast. Is McDonald’s about to offer all-day breakfast, borrowing a page from Denny’s, Jack in the Box, and IHOP? Could be. …
Let’s face it: More often than not these days, a working lunch involves footlongs, not oysters and martinis. Between attending meetings and watching late-night reruns of Friends in a midrange hotel, most businesspeople are catching quick meals at fast-food joints, cafeterias, and airports. So much for glamour. Clearly people are …
(CNN) — Images of bikini-clad women in Thailand posing suggestively in an online ad for a local airline inflamed passions — both positive and negative — earlier this year. Domestic low-cost carrier Nok Air stood at the center of the frenzy. The airline had employed the provocatively clothed women to …
In its recent annual report, Del Frisco’s (DFRG)—the owner of Del Frisco’s, Del Frisco’s Grille, and Sullivan’s Steakhouse—flagged an unusual risk: Corporate cost-cutting could threaten the employee expense account and, by extension, Del Frisco’s bottom line. According to the filing (PDF): “We believe the majority of our weekday revenues are …