Paperless boarding takes off at United
United is the latest carrier to introduce mobile boarding passes for those with web-enabled phones.
United passengers traveling within the United States, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands can now log on to mobile.united.com to check in for their flights via their smartphones.
Those departing from eight U.S. airports, including Chicago’s O’Hare International and Dallas-Fort Worth International in Texas, can also receive an e-mail with an encrypted two-dimensional barcode that stores their flight, seat assignment and gate information.
FAA orders emergency inspections of 600 Boeing 737 Aircraft
The FAA has ordered airlines to perform emergency inspections of its Boeing 737s.
There are specific concerns regarding elevator tabs on 600, 700, 800, and 900 series aircraft of the 737 model.
The FAA’s Emergency Airworthiness Directive was issued following recommendations from Boeing after a Ryanair 737-800 traveling from the Netherlands to Spain experienced “severe vibration” in flight. The flight landed safely, but an inspection found extensive damage to the left elevator, which is the movable flap on the horizontal tail that controls the pitch of the airplane. Fractured mounting lugs are suspected to be the root cause.
New Las Vegas resorts a luxury companies can’t afford
Consesus among companies and analysts in Las Vegas is that no new projects will be built on the Strip and half-finished ones may not have a completion date.
So what makes Las Vegas casino owners swear off new resorts in their hometowns for developments in other parts of the world?
The answer is the Strip’s return on investment, which is, at its most basic, what a project earns divided by its cost. This equation, which drives business decisions in any industry, best explains why developers won’t be building hotels or casino resorts in Las Vegas for years to come.
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