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Low-cost carrier Breeze Airways is adding new routes next year from Mississippi and North Carolina, the latest expansion plans from the constantly-growing airline.

There are many reasons to love Chicago, the nation’s third largest city sitting on Lake Michigan and beloved for its iconic skyline, deep dish pizza, Italian beef and top-notch museums. These days however, with more travelers feeling stressed, lonely, and anxious (a recent World Travel Protection survey noted only one third of business travelers are happy traveling for work), finding relaxing activities and sleeping well has never been more important.

Since Illinois legalized cannabis for recreational and medical use in 2020, there’s been a boom in marijuana tourism in Chicago. While you can’t light up in public spaces you can satiate your cannabis curiosity at dispensaries and smoke socially at venues with an on-premises consumption license. Hotels remain a gray area around ganga use but a “growing” number of Airbnb hosts permit backyard smoking or even from the sofa. Only these cannabis-friendly Airbnbs in Chicago don’t limit 420 to 16:20 p.m.

This Saturday, October 14, a solar eclipse will be seen across the Americas. From inside a 125 miles wide path stretching across the U.S. Southwest and on to Central and South America, a “ring of fire” will be glimpsed for a few minutes as a smaller-looking new moon covers only the middle 90% of the sun.

Breeze Airways is adding a new route from Long Island, New York.

Airshare’s acquisition of Wheels Up’s private jet management business closed over the weekend. It sends 90 airplanes and 300 personnel to the Kansas City-based operator, which already had 56 managed and fractional aircraft in its fleet. After the sale, Wheels Up still has 215 airframes, including 75 King Air turboprops, 52 super midsize jets it can deploy for transcontinental flights, and 61 light jets. For both companies, Wheels Up the fourth-largest operator based on fractional and charter flight hours, and Airshare, ranked 11th, it marks a new chapter.

Despite the naysayers, Breeze Airways founder and CEO David Neeleman doubled down on the ultra-low-cost carrier's long-term viability during a Q&A at the Skift Global Conference in New York City on Wednesday.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 25-year-old Elophia Mengestu, who is based in New York City, and it has been edited for length and clarity.

Low-cost airline Breeze Airways is rewarding travelers both before and after they fly by discounting flights and then offering travelers points toward another flight after they travel.

Breeze Airways is continuing to expand with brand-new flights to Illinois, marking the first time the low-cost airline will fly to the state.

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Think the Midwest is just a cornfield you fly over between coasts? Don’t be fooled by that nonsense.

A man says he was seriously injured when he found a piece of a broken dish in his in-flight meal.

Choose Chicago today announced the launch of the Chicago Brew Pass, a new initiative to promote exploration of Chicago’s award-winning craft brewery scene. Through the Brew Pass, the first-ever digital pass of its kind in Chicago, locals and visitors can check in at breweries across the city and earn points that can be redeemed for fun, limited-edition prizes. Participants can use the Brew Pass to explore over 20 participating craft breweries at their own pace and start earning rewards one pint at a time!

Flight prices have been all over the place this past year.

Ott previously served as General Manager of San Diego Mission Bay Resort, a Noble House Hotels & Resorts property.

Hyatt just lapped the one-year anniversary of acquiring the all-inclusive resort company Apple Leisure Group in a $2.7 billion deal. The Chicago, Illinois-based hotel group is now looking to expand its hotel presence in European cities that could help feed its all-inclusives, according to comments executives made as they reported its earnings.

Hotel real estate investor and management company Highgate signed a deal to acquire Viceroy Hotels & Resorts as Highgate intensifies its quest to add luxury lifestyle hotels to its already ample portfolio.

Hyatt Hotels Corp., which enjoyed a blockbuster financial performance in 2022, forecasted Thursday continued success this year, especially in the first half. The company expects to benefit from growing consumer interest in its lifestyle, luxury, and resort properties, returning group reservations for its banquet halls, and an expanding room count.

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Hyatt Hotels Corp. raised its financial outlook for the year ahead, calling out expected strength in Europe and Asia Pacific as especially key factors for its hotels and resorts, which skew to premium and luxury segments.