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Jan 15, 2025 | 
byerussell.substack.com | Edward Russell |Henry Grabar |Hayden Clarkin |Gad Allon
The holidays, and holiday travel, are — thankfully — over. My family trip to Colorado included an unfortunate 15-hour delay at Washington’s Dulles International Airport that was, in a sense, eye opening. How does one entertain two young children for 15 hours in an airport on Christmas? For one, creeping delays, as annoying as they are, were our unwanted friend — they forced us to move around and change things up for the kids every few hours.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
byerussell.substack.com | Edward Russell
Airport “seating is so often too uncomfortable for long periods of waiting. [The] arrangement of seating in more of a sort of informal living room arrangement is more desirable than the regimented rows of hard benches.”Those words, which read true today, are not the missive of a contemporary architectural thought leader but appeared in Progressive Architecture some seven decades ago, in May 1953.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Edward Russell
Seattleites will have two new options to Asia on their hometown airline next year when Alaska Airlines launches new nonstops to Tokyo and Seoul. Alaska will fly daily from Seattle to Tokyo’s Narita Airport beginning May 12, 2025, giving travelers a new option to explore the streets of Ginza or stay at one of the city’s many luxurious hotels. The flights to Seoul begin in October 2025 offering travelers easy access to the city’s vibrant cultural scene and the center of K-pop.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Edward Russell
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Edward Russell
Travelers can look forward to buying tickets for Southwest Airlines’ new premium seats beginning sometime late next year, CEO Bob Jordan said Thursday. "Selling the new products [is] back half of 2025, and operating the new products [in] the first half of 2026, all of that is on track,” he said at a Goldman Sachs investor conference.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Edward Russell
A former Super Micro Computer strategy director is pressing ahead with allegations the hardware manufacturer retaliated and ultimately fired him for reporting what he believed to be accounting improprieties and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violations. Lawyers for Bob K. Luong filed a motion on Tuesday to lift a previous stay so an amended whistleblower complaint against Super Micro and its CEO, Charles Liang, can be filed and potentially proceed in federal court.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Edward Russell
Some big names in the airline industry are skeptical that struggling Spirit Airlines will be able to keep flying even as it restructures in bankruptcy. “I think the current business plan is not going to work and, if they pursue it, Chapter 11 will be a brief pit stop on the way to Chapter 7,” Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, said at an event at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Thursday.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Edward Russell
‘Tis the season for holiday escapes. Airlines are lining up new flights for sun and snow lovers alike just in time for Christmas. In Travel + Leisure’s latest highlights of the most exciting new routes, December has carriers big and small kicking off dozens of new routes to the Caribbean, the South Pacific, desert abodes, and snowy mountains. Delta Air Lines and Fiji Airways are debuting two new nonstop options to the South Pacific and Australia.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Edward Russell
19 hours agoWe had a chance to test drive the Audi A6 e-tron, the German automaker’s second next-gen electric vehicle based on its new PPE platform, in Tenerife, Spain, a few weeks ago. It delivers power, luxury, and an impressive range in a sleek design. Disclaimer: Audi paid for my flights and lodging to go …
