With summer travel season upon us—and crashes in India and Libya in the headlines—The Daily Beast crunches the numbers for our second-annual rankings of the best and worst airline safety records. Published May 21 2010 11:35AM EDT
INTERNET CRASHES IN PAKISTAN “An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said…. Many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was...
- Runtime: 99 min Leslie Nielson returns in full "Airplane" spoof mode in this clunky send-up of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." The opening action scene concerns a giant fast-food mascot poised atop a tall street pole. When Nielson's cop character crashes into the pole, a...
And we all have direct experience with its effects: airline security and the TSA, which we make fun of when we’re not appalled that they’re harassing 93-year-old women or keeping first-graders off airplanes. You can’t be too careful!
hotels in destinations where resort fees are common — such as Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida — as well as major cities. The data, which is part of a broader effort to find thebest airline and hotel rewards loyalty programs of 2023, was collected as part of NerdWallet’sBest-Of ...
already grappling with the fallout of two fatal crashes of its 737 Max craft, came under additional pressure over night after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will ban travelers from Europe for 30 days starting on Friday in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. —Franck...
A clear impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, aerospace and airline brands account for six out of the ten fastest-falling brands in this year’sBrand Finance Global 500, includingBoeing(down 40% to US$13.6 billion),American Airlines(down 40% to US$5.3 bi...
Whereas Falling and Drowning both involve plane crashes, the aptly titled Worst Case Scenario takes things to the next level. This time, a commercial airliner smashes into a nuclear power plant in a rural town in Minnesota. Unlike in Newman’s previous books, the stakes here aren’t just ...
Worst-case thinking leads to bad decisions, bad systems design, and bad security. And we all have direct experience with its effects: airline security and the TSA, which wemake fun ofwhen we’re not appalled that they’reharassing 93-year-old womenorkeeping first graders off airplanes. You...