6 Months After New York Banned Airbnb, New Jersey Is Doing Great

6 Months After New York Banned Airbnb, New Jersey Is Doing Great

More than 95 percent of the group’s members say they have no intention of becoming long-term landlords, says Lindsay. Instead, he argues, they are now faced with rising housing costs and no immediate way to offset them. The law “has yielded some unintentional effects that are harming smaller homeowners,” Lindsay says. Amid the uncertainties, there … Read more

6 Months After New York Banned Airbnb, New Jersey Is Doing Great

6 Months After New York Banned Airbnb, New Jersey Is Doing Great

More than 95 percent of the group’s members say they have no intention of becoming long-term landlords, says Lindsay. Instead, he argues, they are now faced with rising housing costs and no immediate way to offset them. The law “has yielded some unintentional effects that are harming smaller homeowners,” Lindsay says. Amid the uncertainties, there … Read more

Central Station campsite on K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) set to temporarily close for upgrades

Central Station campsite on K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) set to temporarily close for upgrades

A popular campsite on Queensland’s K’gari island will be temporarily closed for an upgrade to facilities sparked by “high visitor demands”. Central Station, located in bushland west of the island’s Eurong township, will be closed from April 15 as Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service undertakes “major facility upgrades to communications and visitor facilities”. Camping will … Read more

Debate heats up as Singapore PM says Taylor Swift deal isn’t ‘unfriendly’

Debate heats up as Singapore PM says Taylor Swift deal isn’t ‘unfriendly’

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday that a closed-door deal for Taylor Swift to perform in the city-state ensured she would not perform in other Southeast Asian countries during her Eras tour. “(Our) agencies negotiated an arrangement with her to come to Singapore and perform and to make Singapore her only stop in … Read more

Loyalty, premium will make up 80% of revenue

Loyalty, premium will make up 80% of revenue

A Boeing 737 passenger aircraft of American Airlines arrives from Austin at JFK International Airport in New York as the Manhattan skyline looms in the background on February 7, 2024. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images American Airlines said Monday that 80% of its revenue this year will come from loyalty program members and … Read more

American Airlines orders hundreds of planes from Boeing, Airbus, Embraer

American Airlines orders hundreds of planes from Boeing, Airbus, Embraer

American Airlines flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, takes of from Miami International Airport on its way to New York on December 29, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images American Airlines said Monday that it is ordering 260 new narrow-body jets, including dozens of Boeing’s long-delayed 737 Max 10. The order includes … Read more

Qantas discounts fares for one million seats on domestic flights, with prices starting from $109

Qantas discounts fares for one million seats on domestic flights, with prices starting from 9

Qantas has begun a massive week-long sale on domestic Australian flights. The airline has discounted over one million seats on almost every route across the country as part of a week-long “Australia Red Tail sale”. Domestic Economy sale fares start from $109 one-way, with more than 34 routes on sale for under $150, for travel … Read more

Kylie Minogue honoured with Brit Awards global icon gong: ‘I’m just going to be sobbing’

Kylie Minogue honoured with Brit Awards global icon gong: ‘I’m just going to be sobbing’

After achieving massive success throughout her nearly 40-year music career, Kylie Minogue has earned the Brit Awards global icon title. Since breaking through in the late 1980s, the 55-year-old Australian pop superstar has sold more than 80 million records worldwide and became the first female artist to score a No.1 album in five consecutive decades … Read more

China is one of world’s most expensive places to raise children, report finds

China is one of world’s most expensive places to raise children, report finds

China is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child in relative terms, a new report says, with the disproportionate impact on women driving the country’s precipitously low fertility rate as it grapples with a demographic crisis. The study, released by the China-based YuWa Population Research Institute, found the average … Read more

Upstart airlines Avelo, Breeze prepare for a profitable year

Upstart airlines Avelo, Breeze prepare for a profitable year

The inaugural flight of an Avelo Airlines Boeing 737-800 takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa on April 28, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images In the nearly four years since the Covid-19 pandemic upended air travel, the largest U.S. airlines have returned to … Read more