Southwest Airlines, pilots union reach labor deal

Southwest Airlines, pilots union reach labor deal

Southwest Airlines ranked as the second best domestic airline, according to Bounce’s 2023 Airline Index. Aaronp/bauer-griffin | Gc Images | Getty Images Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union have reached a new preliminary labor agreement, ending months of tense negotiations and becoming the last of the largest U.S. airlines to strike a deal that is … Read more

Shippers divert $35 billion in cargo from Red Sea

Shippers divert  billion in cargo from Red Sea

Loaded containers stacked on top of a cargo ship sailing in a canal on Janvier 20, 2017 in Suez Canal, Red sea, Egypt.  Camille Delbos | Corbis News | Getty Images So far, shippers have diverted about more than $30 billion worth of cargo away from the Red Sea as they face the threat of … Read more

Online shopping for holidays exceeds 2020 pandemic high, CNBC economic survey shows

Online shopping for holidays exceeds 2020 pandemic high, CNBC economic survey shows

Click. Click. Gift. After a two-year slump below its pandemic high, online shopping made a comeback this holiday season. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds 57% of Americans naming online shopping as their top one or two destinations for Christmas gifts. In 2006, online shopping accounted for just 18% of responses. It hit an all-time … Read more