Transportation
United Airlines grows highest-end Polaris airport lounge by 50% in battle for wealthy customers
United Airlines Polaris lounge in Chicago United Airlines United Airlines‘ top-tier airport lounge reopened in Chicago on Tuesday, featuring a 50% larger space and Crate & Barrel furnishings as carriers’ battle for higher-spending customers becomes more crucial. The 25,000-square-foot-Polaris lounge is in Terminal 1 at United’s home hub, Chicago O’Hare International Airport. It has seating […]
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General Motors is set to report earnings before the bell. Here’s what Wall Street expects
GMC trucks are displayed at Hanlees Hilltop GMC in Richmond, California, on Jan. 28, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images DETROIT — General Motors is set to report its first-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday, but investors are more likely to focus on the automaker’s 2025 guidance than on quarterly results amid President Donald Trump’s […]
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White House names McNeill acting head of Transportation Security Administration
A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent’s patch is seen as she helps travelers place their bags through the 3-D scanner at the Miami International Airport. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The Trump administration has tapped a former White House official to serve as the acting head of the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration. The TSA confirmed on Monday Ha Nguyen McNeill has been named deputy administrator and is serving […]
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Trump to reduce impact of auto tariffs, officials say
Vehicles are seen for sale at a GMC dealership in Houston, Texas, on April 7, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s administration will move to reduce the impact of his automotive tariffs on Tuesday by alleviating some duties placed on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars and keeping tariffs on cars made abroad from stacking on top of other ones, officials said. […]
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Plane tickets are getting cheaper as domestic travel demand weakens
Is a recession brewing in row 33? Airline CEOs this month warned Wall Street that passengers’ appetite for domestic trips is coming in lighter than they had hoped when they set forecasts high at the start of 2025. On a series of earnings calls, they said the reasons range from President Donald Trump’s whipsawing tariff […]
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California overhauling self-driving vehicle regulations. Tesla shares climb 10%
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images New rules for testing and deployment of self-driving vehicles are on the way in the state of California. The California DMV announced on Friday […]
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Private jet demand declines as tariffs spook would-be buyers
A Cessna Citation jet aircraft is viewed at Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in this aerial photo taken on June 1, 2021, near Healdsburg, California. George Rose | Getty Images With consumer confidence tumbling, demand for commercial air travel has waned. Even deep-pocketed travelers are pulling back, according to Barclays’ latest survey of business […]
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American Airlines withdraws 2025 forecast on murky economic outlook
American Airlines withdrew its 2025 financial guidance on Thursday, joining other carriers that are grappling with an uncertain outlook on the U.S. economy and weaker-than-expected leisure travel bookings this year. “We came off a strong fourth quarter, saw decent business in January and really domestic really travel fell off considerably as we went into the […]
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Alaska Airlines warns of slower demand as second-quarter profit outlook falls short
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Jan. 6, 2024. Stephen Brashear| Bloomberg | Getty Images Alaska Airlines on Wednesday warned that softer travel demand will eat into earnings in the second quarter, the latest in a chorus of carriers seeing weaker-than-expected bookings. Alaska said […]
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Alaska Airlines warns of slower demand as second-quarter profit outlook falls short
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Jan. 6, 2024. Stephen Brashear| Bloomberg | Getty Images Alaska Airlines on Wednesday warned that softer travel demand will eat into earnings in the second quarter, the latest in a chorus of carriers seeing weaker-than-expected bookings. Alaska said […]
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