The True Cost Of 81 Very Expensive Minutes For United Airlines
After grounding all of its flights Wednesday morning for more than an hour, United faces a costly recovery process.
Mariah Summers is a business reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Summers reports on hospitality, travel and real estate.
After grounding all of its flights Wednesday morning for more than an hour, United faces a costly recovery process.
The company's new fathom brand of "social impact" cruises will head for Cuba in spring 2016, making it the first U.S.-based cruise line to take passengers to the island.
The government is looking into allegations of collusion among big airlines. But where does loose talk end and conspiracies begin?
The promotion to celebrate "100 million customers already this year" has been shared more than 60,000 times, which would be impressive if it wasn't a hoax.
In a presentation to investors, the company said onboard Wi-Fi will hit broadband speeds within five years, and be available on many more flights.
On a visit to Williamsburg, Amsterdam's deputy mayor talked about the impact of tourism, Airbnb and gentrification. "You have to preserve the diversity of an area."
Already on track for a record summer, the airline industry will keep growing fast in the coming decades, according to a new report.
A new unit of the cruise giant will take travelers to the Dominican Republic, "a country known for its spectacular beauty but also a country with great needs."
Once a money-losing afterthought, the restaurant and bar scene of many new hotels is quickly becoming a pillar of success in the industry.
Hospitality giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is planning to open 150 more Sheratons, including the new "premier tier" variety, Sheraton Grand, in the hopes of luring more visitors to the struggling brand.
BuzzFeed has obtained the "Golden Pitchbook" used by top brokers at John Thomas Financial. In its pages: How cold-calling brokers pressure prospects to buy stocks from the troubled firm.
BuzzFeed conducted a highly unscientific, informal survey in the bars of Stone Street to find out what goes on in a finance bro's heart. Based on a random sample of fellows from Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs, we found that for the bros of Wall Street, the line between feeling objectified and doing the objectifying is blurry.
Highland Capital founder James Dondero makes around $30 million a year. A prenup calls for his wife, Becky, to get $5 million in a divorce settlement. He has resisted paying her for two years, and now, a judge in Texas has reached a verdict in the bitter standoff.
No paperwork, no queuing at fluorescent-lit counters at midnight, and no bizarre pricing tricks. The Austin-based company is taking a shot at a stubbornly old-school industry.
The arrest of Jim Bisenius, founder of $3 billion hedge fund Common Sense Investment Management, rocked Portland's close-knit finance community.
The hedge fund Barington Capital Group is mounting a campaign to break up the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, Darden Restaurants, in part because of the abysmal performance of those two chains. Here's a look at how they fell so far so fast.
Anything is possible if you set your mind on it.
A new database has tracked the biggest winners and losers in activist short-selling. Pershing Square's Bill Ackman, despite Herbalife, is one of the best; David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, isn't.
People are hocking everything from Salomon Brothers stock certificates to a Bear Stearns visor, in case you want the corporate memories.
Starbucks isn't the only company to offer to pay for most, if not all, of the tuition costs to send its employees to college. Here's a look at some other companies that offer to pay anywhere from $5,000 per year to 90% of tuition costs for their employees.