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Air France to serve 23 North American cities this summer – Business Traveller

2Jan

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Air France to serve 23 North American cities this summer – Business Traveller

Air France has outlined plans to serve a total of 23 cities across the US, Canada and Mexico this summer. The carrier will resume daily flights between Paris CDG and Minneapolis on May 13 – a route served by joint venture partner Delta in summer 2023. It will also extend its Paris-Raleigh-Durham service (which it took over from Delta in October last year) into summer 2024, with up to seven flights per week operated by A350-900 aircraft. The full list of Air France’s North American destinations for summer 2024 is as follows: United States Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York JFK, Newark, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC Canada Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver Mexico Cancun and Mexi...

The Migrant Crisis and the Urban Death Spiral

11Dec

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Health

The Migrant Crisis and the Urban Death Spiral

Cities are organic entities. They have life cycles. They can thrive and grow or suffer and shrink. As secretary of housing and urban development, I learned this firsthand. Detroit wasn’t always the Detroit of today. San Francisco today is different from San Francisco 10 years ago. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago aren’t what they were 20 years ago. It’s time we opened our eyes to reality. Many cities are going backward.We are experiencing an unrecognized urban crisis as cities grapple with post-Covid realities. Cities were created primarily as locations for employment. Post-Covid remote work, Zoom meetings, abbreviated workweeks and increased mobility change the basic urban equation. Fewer people need to be in the city to work, and during Covid many adopted new lifestyles and locations. ...

United will fly to 38 transatlantic cities in summer 2024 – Business Traveller

28Oct

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United will fly to 38 transatlantic cities in summer 2024 – Business Traveller

United Airlines says it will operate its largest ever transatlantic schedules next summer, with new routes, additional frequencies and an earlier start to the season. The US carrier will become the first and only airline to offer nonstop flights between the US and Faro, with a four-times-weekly service from New York’s Newark airport starting on 24 May, 2024. The Boeing 757-200 route will add to United’s existing Portguese services between Newark and Lisbon, Washington Dulles and Lisbon, Newark and Porto, and Newark and Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Meanwhile the carrier will resume seasonal flights between Newark and Reykjavik on 23 May next year, for the first time since summer 2022, and will add second daily frequencies between Newark and Brussels, and between Washington and Rome. Sever...

24Oct

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World

The New Rise of Organized Shoplifting

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss retail theft and shoplifting. Next we’ll ask: “There has been much debate over ‘gender transition’ procedures for children under 18 experiencing gender dysphoria. Should minors be able to receive such procedures? Why or why not?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before Oct. 31. The best responses will be published that night.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Inside the Race to Crush Paris’ Bedbug Crisis

17Oct

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Inside the Race to Crush Paris’ Bedbug Crisis

And even if a dog can sniff the insects out, it can’t get rid of them. This has to be done by humans. Parisian pest control companies are doing a healthy trade too.For Hygiène Premium, which specializes in insect and rat control, traditionally about 40 to 50 percent of people calling them have trouble with bedbugs. “Now, that’s eight people out of 10,” says Sacha Krief, its associate manager. Overall, his company has seen a 30 percent increase in the number of bedbug-treatment cases.According to Anses, France’s national health security agency, the average cost to get rid of bedbugs is 890 euros ($937), and the price is often even higher in Paris. “It can go up to 1,000, 2,000, even 3,000 euros. Not many people can get this out of their bank accounts overnight,” says Antoine Demière, an ad...

New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos

9Oct

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New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos

Outside of Airbnb, people are posting listings and seeking short-term rentals in Facebook groups. Ads on Craigslist for rentals have weekly or nightly prices listed—WIRED found one listing with a weekly and nightly price on Craigslist that also appears on Airbnb, but can only be booked for 30 days or longer on Airbnb. These off-platform rentals pose risks to both guests and hosts, who could get scammed without the protections of bigger companies like Airbnb. Craigslist did not respond to a request for comment. Meta, Facebook's parent company, did not comment on specific listings flagged by WIRED, but the company's policies require buyers and sellers in Facebook Marketplace to comply with local laws, and the company prohibits people from promoting illegal activity in Facebook pages and gro...

New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods

29Sep

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New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods

Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ian dumped up to 10 inches of rain on New York City in just two hours, the metropolis is once again inundated today by extreme rainfall. It is one of the many cities worldwide grappling with a counterintuitive effect of climate change: Sometimes, it will get wetter, not drier. On a warming planet, it’ll rain more and individual storms will get more intense. This pain will be especially acute in urban areas, which are built on stormwater infrastructure designed to handle the rainfall of yesteryear. Think back to what the builders of the last century wanted: sewers and canals that funneled rainwater as quickly as possible into a river, lake, or ocean, before it had a chance to accumulate. That worked fine, most of the time. But over the intervening ...

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Family Feud Over Money Is Headed for Private Talks

11Sep

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Money

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Family Feud Over Money Is Headed for Private Talks

A judge ordered a high-stakes family feud over the finances of US Senator Dianne Feinstein, the powerful 90-year-old California Democrat, to be moved out of court for private negotiations.Since early this summer, the fight has been playing out publicly between the families of two of San Francisco’s storied power brokers: Feinstein, who built a political dynasty over decades, and her wealthy husband Richard Blum, the co-founder of private equity firm Blum Capital Partners, who died last year and left much of his fortune to her in a marital trust.

The End of Burning Man Is Also Its Future

8Sep

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The End of Burning Man Is Also Its Future

A hurricane hitting the desert was not on anyone’s Burner bingo card for 2023.Burning Man, the annual 80,000-person bacchanal, happens about three hours outside of Reno, Nevada, in the Black Rock Desert every Labor Day. It’s a place of extremes: extreme temperatures, extreme dust storms, and an extreme lack of water.Climate change, and all its extreme unpredictability, has arrived at the playa, the dusty-dry lakebed where the event is situated. Last year, temperatures soared to 103 degrees Fahrenheit. This year, not only did a tropical storm roll by, but an unseasonable rainstorm followed within the week. The resulting epic mud pit, filled with all manner of litter and trash, might strain the resources of the Burning Man Organization—the gathering’s governing body, also referred to as the...

4Aug

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Entertainment

The War on Cities | The New Yorker

Nine years ago, two friends got into a fight. Alimamy Tarawallie had invited a group of men to his apartment, in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to watch the World Cup semifinals. Tarawallie was rooting for Brazil, his favorite team, which got walloped by Germany, 7–1. He was feeling glum. A friend, Winston Perez Hernandez, who was drinking from a large bottle of Guinness, tried to console Tarawallie—he touched him on the arm and told him to be thankful that he hadn’t placed any bets on the game.“Stop touching me,” Tarawallie said.Perez Hernandez—feeling slighted, perhaps—playfully touched Tarawallie’s arm again. Tarawallie shoved him. Then, according to Tarawallie, Perez Hernandez smashed the beer bottle on Tarawallie’s head.Tarawallie called the police; Perez Hernandez...