FLYING: STORIES FROM 36,000 FEET

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  New United Airlines Employee Uniforms Launching, After Major Delay

  onemileatatime.com - Ben Schlappig

  United Airlines is expected to start rolling out its new employee uniforms in the coming weeks, nearly a decade after this project started (thanks to …

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  Boeing Begins Flying Back Planes Destined for Chinese Airlines

  Bloomberg - By Julie Johnsson, Siddharth Vikram Philip, and Danny Lee

  Boeing Co. has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the US, as the trade war between the two biggest …

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  Deep snow, thick ice and zero delays: Inside the Arctic Circle airports that never cancel a flight

  Euronews - By Joanna Bailey

  Where most airports would close for a few centimetres of snow, some battle-hardened Arctic Circle airports refuse to close for anything. Flying into …

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  Double-decker passenger planes are a dying breed. These airlines are keeping them alive

  CNN

  CNN — They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 — are still some of the most popular aircraft around. Perhaps it’s their whisper-quiet cabins and spacious …

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  United Airlines gives two 2025 profit outlooks, calling economy 'impossible' to predict

  CNBC - Leslie Josephs

  United Airlines maintained its full-year forecast on Tuesday but took an unusual step of offering a second forecast should the U.S. slip into a …

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  The ‘most expensive airport’ has $20 beers and $7 bananas — and it’s not JFK or LaGuardia

  New York Post - Fabiana Buontempo

  That costs how much? No traveler expects an airport to have affordable food and drink options. Even if you skip having a sit-down meal — and instead …