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Officials investigating why a panel on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew open during an Alaska Airlines flight last week say they are struggling to piece together exactly what happened because the plane’s cockpit voice recorder overwrote itself before it could be retrieved.

British Columbia’s inland temperate rainforest is one of the snowiest places on earth. Its premier ski town, Revelstoke, holds the North American record for most snow dropped in a single winter—a whopping 80 feet in 1971-1972. And Revelstoke Mountain Resort sees 400-500 inches of snow every season.

Last year, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers across the country intercepted a record 6,737 firearms—93% of them loaded—at airport security checkpoints, according to the agency.

Last year was officially the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record by a scorching margin.

Over the weekend, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded flights on all Boeing 737-9 Max planes following a harrowing incident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282 in which a plug door near the rear of the plane blew out at 16,000 feet, six minutes into a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, causing the cabin to lose pressure. Oxygen masks were deployed, and passengers described a rough ride as the plane quickly returned to the Portland airport; no one was seriously hurt, but several of the 177 people aboard were treated for minor injuries. The incident prompted a sweeping grounding of most of the 215 Boeing 737-9 Max planes that were flying worldwide.

The cockpit voice recorder for Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was overwritten, hampering investigators aiming to determine why a door plug for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out shortly after the flight took off from Portland on Friday night.

For the third year running, Delta has been named the carrier with the best on-time performance record in North America by the airline analytics company Cirium, which crunches data for 32 million global flights annually. Delta also won Cirium’s Platinum Award, determined by evaluating timeliness alongside the overall breadth of an airline’s operations.

Ali Türk took over the position of Chief Cargo Officer as of 1 January 2024.

With a rate of $1190 for the cheapest room, New Orleans emerged top of the rankings.

MIA officials expect more peak days this weekend and next week, as travelers make their way to and from Miami-Dade County and destinations across the region for New Year’s Day and Three Kings Day celebrations.

KSA-based and international falconers will compete for record total prize pot of SAR 60m ($16m) at AlUla’s Mughayra Heritage Sports Village from December 28th to January 5th.

The survey compared hotel rates across 40 European destinations for December 31, with prices at all hotels with a central location and rated three stars or more in each destination recorded.

Fleet upscaled by 35%, seat capacity up 22%. 19 new aircraft delivered during 2023.

Kempinski The Boulevard Dubai and Kempinski Central Avenue Dubai reaffirm the company’s position as one of the leading luxury hotel brands in the UAE.

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In a somewhat ironic storyline, as high-profile private jet owners like Bernard Arnault, Elon Musk, and Mark Cuban fretted about keeping their flights off the radar, a flock of private jet flight providers invited skeptical eyes to take a closer look as they chased IPOs.

“When I was at home I was in a better place,” Mr. Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It. I wonder which home of his inspired that line, if any. It’s possible he had given thought to the home of his birth, where also lived in his youth. Amazingly, all these hundreds of years later, that home still exists and, not surprisingly, it’s a museum.

South Korea has this week announced its plans to unroll a new digital nomad visa starting on January 1, 2024. The visa will allow foreign residents to stay in the country for up to two years while working a remote job back home.

Pre-pandemic travel levels were overtaken in 2023, with more passengers getting screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers. The record for most passengers seen in a single day was broken twice this year. While only a few days are left in 2023, this record may be broken again.

Although the birth of luxury timepieces are often associated with Geneva and Basel, the cradle of Swiss watchmaking lies deep in Switzerland’s Jura Mountains. Since 1748, the postcard-worthy Vallée de Joux has been the birthplace of world-renowned watch brands, including Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and David Candaux. 

The image of a celebrity chef dousing their Caprese salad, gazpacho or dolmas with extra-virgin olive oil is incredibly ambitious at the moment, with most Europeans facing record prices in the supermarket aisle. But why have olive oil prices risen so sharply?