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☆ Cramer: Why Apple's Vision Pro could contribute to earnings sooner than expected
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Apple did not disclose revenue for the Vision Pro, the company's first new major device since the Apple Watch debuted in 2015. The Vision Pro is generally considered a higher-quality product than rival devices, with its sharper resolution as one key advantage. Jim, however, said the Vision Pro could be a positive contributor to Apple's earnings much sooner than others expect, as enterprise adoption drives more sales. Lowe's is using Vision Pro for immersive kitchen design, while Porsche is using it for "real-time team collaboration for racing," Cook said. He said Friday that Apple's developer conference in June — where more details on its AI strategy are widely expected — will also highlight new software programs written for the Vision Pro.

Persons: Tim Cook, Cook, Jim Cramer, Jim, Nvidia's, Jensen Huang, Jim Cramer's, Angela Weiss Organizations: Vision, Apple, Club, Nvidia, Apple Watch, Wall, Meta, CNBC, Dutch, KLM, Porsche, AFP, Getty Locations: Nvidia's, —, New York City

☆ Flights are still being disrupted and rerouted after Iran's attack on Israel. Here's what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

British low-cost carrier easyJet on Tuesday said it was extending its suspension of Israel flights for the remainder of the summer season, until Oct. 27, and would refund customers due to fly. Rival Wizz Air resumed flights to Tel Aviv on Tuesday but said passengers may experience "schedule changes" and that it was monitoring the situation. Dutch airline KLM canceled flights to Israel until Apr. Air India said it had temporarily suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv and its Tuesday service was listed as canceled. Germany's Lufthansa Group said it had resumed flights to Tel Aviv, Amman and Erbil on Tuesday, but had canceled flights to Tehran and Beirut up until Thursday.

Organizations: Sunday, Wizz Air, KLM, Air, Germany's Lufthansa Group Locations: Ben Gurion, Iran, Tel Aviv, Israel, British, Air India, Amman, Erbil, Tehran, Beirut

☆ Unruly passengers were a problem before the pandemic. Now they’re even worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Levels of unrulinessIATA classifies unruly behavior incidents into four levels. The latest available IATA data, from 2022, indicates most disruptive passenger incidents involved non-compliance, verbal abuse and intoxication. Passengers refusing to wear masks was a contributing factor to the rise in unruly incidents during that period. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty ImagesOf the 5,981 unruly passenger incidents reported to the FAA in 2021, 4,290 were face mask-related. “If you are a potentially unruly passenger, do you really not become unruly because you saw some zero tolerance unruly behavior video?” he questions.

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☆ Snow grounds dozens of flights at Amsterdam airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

AMSTERDAM, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Dozens of flights to and from Amsterdam Schiphol airport were cancelled on Sunday due to snowfall expected to reach the Netherlands in the afternoon. Schiphol's website around midday indicated almost 150 incoming and outgoing flights had been cancelled. Dutch airline KLM, the airport's main user, told Dutch news agency ANP it had scrapped 65 European flights in the afternoon and evening. Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Bart Meijer, Alison Williams Organizations: Dutch, KLM, Thomson Locations: Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands

☆ KLM cancels dozens of flights at Amsterdam airport due to storm
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

AMSTERDAM, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Dutch airline KLM has scrapped dozens of flights to and from Amsterdam Schiphol airport on Thursday as storm Ciaran is expected to hit the Netherlands with wind gusts of up to 110 kilometres (68 miles) per hour. "We have decided to cancel all KLM flights to and from Schiphol from early afternoon until the end of the day," the Dutch arm of airline Air France KLM (AIRF.PA) said. Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kim CoghillOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Ciaran, Bart Meijer, Kim Coghill Organizations: Dutch, KLM, Air France KLM, Thomson Locations: AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands, Schiphol

☆ Storm Ciaran kills six, lashes Europe with strong winds and rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A truck driver was killed when a tree fell on him in France while a second death was reported in Le Havre, according to authorities. [1/7]A surfer tries to navigate through rough sea during Storm Ciaran, in Tramore, Ireland, November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Acquire Licensing RightsFrench Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters that in addition to the death of truck driver, 15 people, including seven firefighters, had been injured. Still, the storm in France showed some signs of abating with the Meteo France weather service reducing its alert for strong winds in Mache, Finistere and Cotes d'Armor from red to orange. La Pinilla, a ski resort north of Madrid, and Estaca de Bares in Galicia registered wind velocities of more than 150 kph, AEMET said.

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☆ Slack is the latest company to cut back on Elon Musk's X
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Slack retired its @SlackStatus account on X, implying customers weren't using it much anymore. The X account, which has more than 30,000 followers, used to share updates about Slack system issues. Though Slack still has an account on X, @SlackHQ, with more than 458,000 followers, the @SlackStatus account with more than 30,000 followers has been retired. The status account used to share updates regarding problems and outages with the Slack platform. The company said it will answer incident-related questions from its main account on X moving forward.

Persons: Slack, —, Elon Musk's, Kevin Albers, Balenciaga, Elon Musk Organizations: Companies, Air France, Service, Elon, Twitter, KLM, Air Locations: Air France

A Norwegian Air plane is refuelled at Oslo Gardermoen airport, Norway November 7, 2019. Norwegian Air (NAS.OL) said it had cancelled a planned evacuation flight from Tel Aviv to Oslo due to a lack of insurance cover. The Dutch foreign ministry said it would send a military plane to Israel on Thursday instead. Norwegian Air had been due to fly Norwegian and other Nordic citizens stranded in Israel out of the country on Thursday evening. Germany's Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) was sticking to its plans for evacuation flights on Thursday and Friday.

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☆ Governments repatriate citizens from Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares Acquire Licensing RightsOct 12 (Reuters) - Governments around the world have arranged repatriation flights from Tel Aviv in reaction to the conflict in Israel. AUSTRALIAAustralia organised two special flights on Friday and Sunday to bring back citizens from Israel, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. CANADACanada plans to operate evacuation flights for Canadians stranded in Israel, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Tuesday. ITALYItaly arranged for seven flights between Tuesday and Wednesday, the Italian foreign ministry said late on Tuesday, as part of efforts to repatriate about 900 Italian citizens from Israel. On Wednesday, Portugal had repatriated 152 Portuguese citizens directly from Israel, plus 14 citizens from other European countries.

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While a civil suit lodged against KLM (AIRF.PA) in the Netherlands is one of the most prominent, complaints and cases against other airlines have been mounting. Lockwood said the ASA would use machine learning tools to scan online advertising to catch potentially misleading wording. Separately, the Austrian advertising watchdog told Lufthansa's Austrian Airlines arm last year to stop making claims about a carbon neutral flight using biofuel. The lawsuit alleges that carbon offset programmes don't work as advertised and the company misled consumers. The company is investing in newer planes and sustainable fuel to "decarbonise" its operations, the person added.

Persons: Miles Lockwood, Lockwood, Joanna Plucinska, Mark Potter Organizations: KLM Airlines, Fossielvrij, Dutch, KLM, Airlines, Ryanair, Lufthansa, Etihad, Standards Authority, ASA, Reuters, Lufthansa Group, Austrian Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Delta, Thomson Locations: Netherlands, Amsterdam, Austrian, Los Angeles

"The only way to fly responsibly right now is not to fly," said Hiske Arts, who is leading the campaign by Fossil Free Netherlands. In preliminary hearings, its lawyers argued "fly responsibly" ads were well-intentioned. KLM says it has already discontinued 19 communications it says form the core of the Fossil Free suit. Its "fly responsibly" web page now re-routes customers to a message that reads: "Air travel is currently not sustainable. While advertising authorities have banned some ads, they say airlines should be allowed to discuss improvements in order to prevent "greenhushing", or allowing the issue to disappear from discussion.

Persons: BEUC, Dimitri Vergne, Laurent Donceel, Lucas Boudet, Toby Sterling, Joanna Plucinska, Mark Potter Organizations: Hiske, Fossielvrij, Dutch, KLM, Fossil, Hiske Arts, Fossil Free Netherlands, European Commission, Air France, Schiphol Airport, Airlines, Advertising Standards Association, Thomson Locations: Netherlands, Amsterdam, Europe, AMSTERDAM, LONDON, Brussels, London

Demand for carbon credits is on track to fall in 2023, according to two of the top data providers. Nestle, which has also not disclosed its spending on offsets, said it would stop using carbon offsets and was seeking other routes to net zero. Until this year, the voluntary carbon market had grown as more companies came under shareholder pressure to adopt net zero policies. SECOND THOUGHTSFor the carbon markets, another issue is that regulators and carbon market advisory bodies are limiting the scope of their use by companies. "You need to reduce emissions and that's how you will be judged in the market when you're disclosing your carbon emissions."

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☆ Tweeting at some airlines for customer support won't work anymore. They've stopped using Twitter amid Elon Musk's changes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some airlines will no longer handle customer service requests over Twitter. A clever customer service hack for dealing with airlines is becoming harder to do thanks to Elon Musk's changes to Twitter. Both Air France and its sister airline KLM will no longer field customer service requests over the social media platform, the companies announced over the past few weeks. The paywalled API contributed to Air France's decision to suspend customer service through Twitter, the Journal reported. The airline is seemingly still fielding customer service requests over Twitter.

☆ Extinction Rebellion holds climate protest next to Rembrandt's The Night Watch
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

AMSTERDAM, March 5 (Reuters) - The Netherlands arm of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protested on Sunday next to Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. It is obvious that this is due to the fossil industry, an industry that the Rijksmuseum is still sponsoring", 19-year-old protester Yara said, referring to the museum's partnerships with airline KLM and bank ING. Ten protesters, aged between 15 and 22 years old, wore T-shirts emblazoned with climate slogans, while some of their parents and grandparents stood nearby in support. A spokesperson for Rijksmuseum told Dutch press agency ANP that the protest didn't cause any damage to The Night Watch and that the protesters were escorted outside without incident. Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ These are the Top 8 airlines in the world, according to a group's survey of more than a million passengers
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Airline Passenger Experience Association named its Top 8 airlines in the world for 2023. The organization says it used more than a million passenger surveys that asked people about their experiences on 600 airlines around the world. The winners were not much different from last year, when the group named seven top carriers. These include Japan Airlines, Dutch national airline KLM, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines; and Middle Eastern carriers Qatar Airways, Saudia, and Emirates. Here's a closer look at the Top 8 airlines named by APEX for 2023, listed in alphabetical order.

☆ Boeing delivered 35 planes in August as new Dreamliners returned
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 aircraft stands on its parking position at Frankfurt Airport, with another Lufthansa aircraft in the background. Boeing's deliveries rose to 35 planes last month, helped in part by a resumption in handovers of new 787 Dreamliners to airlines. Those jets were flown to Victorville, California, for Boeing to install Wi-Fi equipment and other items in the planes' interiors. Boeing also logged 26 net orders for new planes last month, half of them for 737 Max aircraft. Its net orders for the year stand at 388 and deliveries at 277 planes.

☆ There's a shortage of truckers, but TuSimple thinks it has a solution: no driver needed
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-14 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

One solution to the problem is autonomous trucks, and several companies are in a race to be the first to launch one. The journey was completed in 14 hours versus the usual 24 with a human driver, mostly because a truck doesn't need to sleep. Its plans are dependent on state legislation, however, because currently some states do not allow for testing of autonomous trucks on public roads. According to Lu, that's still cheaper than paying for a human driver. But you're saving the cost of a human driver, which based on average US wages is about $80,000 to $120,000 per year -- or 80 cents to $1.20 per mile.

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