The cause of the fatal plane crash in South Korea last month is still to be determined, but it thrust into the spotlight a subject little understood by the general public: how airplanes are maintained. Jeju Air, the airline that operated the flight in which 179 people died, said that checks before the flight had…
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Dear Tripped Up, I’m a co-owner of Luaka Bop, a New York-based record label, and last June was accompanying the Staples Jr. Singers, a gospel group from Aberdeen, Miss., on a European tour. For a British Airways flight from London to Paris, three musicians were required to check their guitars, but only one instrument arrived…
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It’s hard to pinpoint when things began to change around here but you might start with the arrival of Yolanda Hadid in 2017. Ms. Hadid, a onetime regular on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” bought a farm just outside New Hope, Pa., to be closer to her daughters, the models Gigi and Bella Hadid,…
The long ride from the international airport to the city of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java at least has the virtue of easing a jet-lagged traveler through a liminal zone of rice-paddy plains and jungle hills. Then the buzzy metropolis closes round, and everything is all business and hot tropical urban disarray. Streets…
An interracial couple from Arizona has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines alleging they were detained by law enforcement after the husband was falsely suspected of trafficking his wife by two airline employees and another passenger on their flight. The incident took place in September 2022, on an American flight from Phoenix to Miami. Anthony…
We used several A.I. search engines, including Gemini, a large language model that can handle files of up to 750,000 words, and Semantra, an open-source “semantic search engine” that Mr. Freedman developed. Instead of searching for specific terms — “sustainability,” say, or “climate change” — it searches for concepts or themes. “It’s a new paradigm…
Without TikTok, Saint Honoré, a doughnut and pizza shop in Las Vegas, or Vivoli Gelateria, a shop in Florence, Italy, known for its fancy affogatos, might not be on the bucket lists of the travelers who now line up down the block for their treats. “A majority of our customers come from TikTok,” said Alexandra…
Follow continuing coverage of the wildfires in Southern California. The lobby of Shutters on the Beach, the luxury oceanfront hotel in Santa Monica that is usually abuzz with tourists and entertainment professionals, had by Thursday transformed into a refuge for Los Angeles residents displaced by the raging wildfires that have ripped through thousands of acres…