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Spirit Airlines Cleared to Exit Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

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Spirit Airlines is set to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a private company after a U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the carrier’s restructuring plan Thursday.  As part of Spirit’s restructuring plan, the airline will exit bankruptcy through a take-private deal backed by lenders. Spirit’s top bondholders, which include Citadel Advisors, Pacific Investment Management Co., Western Asset […]

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Accor's Two-Track Strategy: Luxury for Growth, Economy for Profit

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Accor on Thursday reported an 11% revenue increase for 2024 – a jump that largely came from its luxury division. The company’s luxury and lifestyle segment grew 19%, more than triple the 5% growth rate of the mainstream business. The Paris-based hotel operator also said it’s focusing its expansion in high-growth markets, including South America,

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Climate change shrinking glaciers faster than ever; 7 trillion tons lost since 2000

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Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but that

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Proposal to ban lab-grown meat in Nebraska gets pushback from ranchers and farm groups

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LINCOLN, Neb. — The prospect of banning the sale of so-called lab-grown meat might seem like a no-brainer in Nebraska, where beef is king, but some of the proposal’s staunchest opposition has come from ranchers and farming groups who say they can compete without the government’s help. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen — one of the

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Choice Has Dumped Hundreds of Budget Hotels in Upscale Strategy Shift

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Choice Hotels International has been orchestrating one of the U.S. lodging industry’s most dramatic makeovers. The company that built its empire on roadside chains like Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn is now aggressively pivoting toward sleek urban hotels and extended-stay suites. Skift analyzed Choice Hotels’ financial filings on Thursday for 2024 and compared them with

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China's Alibaba sees revenue surge on back of artificial intelligence, e-commerce

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HONG KONG — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding posted its fastest revenue growth in more than a year, beating analyst expectations as it capitalizes on the artificial intelligence boom in China. Alibaba said Thursday that its revenue for the quarter ended December grew 8% to 280.2 billion yuan ($38.38 billion) compared to the same

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BCD and Amex GBT Lead the Corporate Travel Market 'By Far,' UK Regulator Reveals

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Travel management companies are notoriously secretive about contract wins, but the UK Competition and Markets Authority shared the broad outlines of which companies are competing for and winning the most corporate travel transaction volumes. “The bidding data confirms that BCD and GBT are the two strongest competitors in the market, by far, and has also

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Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says

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The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied

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Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is again spewing lava

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During the Kīlauea summit eruption’s eighth episode, shows two eruptive vents actively fountaining from the floor of Haleumaumau Crater as newly emplaced lava flows exhibit intense heat shimmer and residual glow in some of their cracks at the summit of Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (M. Zoeller/U.S. Geological

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