26 h. ago I try United Airlines’ business class suite — here’s what I love about it (and what I don’t)

The Independent’s US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill puts United’s Polaris business-class suite to the test on flights between London Heathrow and Newark. The seat can cost up to $11,000 on this route. Ted discovers how much bang you get for this big pile of bucks

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8 d. ago Angry boyfriend went on racist tirade after finding out his girlfriend broke rules of their open relationship by sleeping with black man, court told

Christopher Dalby, 47, has now pleaded guilty at Southampton Crown Court to racially aggravated intentional harassment.

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8 d. ago Meet the woman who became a United Airlines pilot at 50 after 20 years as a journalist and brand executive

Carole Hopson today is one of only around 150 professional Black female pilots in the United States

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8 d. ago United Airlines supervisor allegedly told Black employee to ‘go fetch’ a noose

Exclusive: “Despite United being made aware” of allegations of racism, the carrier “has not implemented effective measures to address the culture of discrimination,” attorney Genevieve Mesch told The Independent

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9 d. ago United Airlines supervisor told Black employee to ‘go fetch’ a noose, lawsuit says

Exclusive: “Despite United being made aware” of allegations of racism, the carrier “has not implemented effective measures to address the culture of discrimination,” attorney Genevieve Mesch told The Independent

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1 week ago United, American, Delta suspending flights to Middle East amid Israel

United Airlines has suspended some flights to Dubai while American Airlines halted flights to Doha, Qatar, on Thursday

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2 w. ago 'I flew Boeing planes for 40 years – the Air India crash was bound to happen'

Ross Aimer, a pilot for top airlines including United Airlines from 1964 to 2004, has said he is 'shocked' but 'not that surprised' that the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed

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2 w. ago JetZero plans to build $4.7B plant in North Carolina, aims to create 14,500 jobs

A California-based company plans to build its first manufacturing plant for a next-generation passenger jet in central North Carolina

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4 w. ago ‘These guys are idiots’: Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black call out government’s Harvey Milk erasure

Team behind Oscar-winning biopic of the groundbreaking gay politician hits back at decision to remove his nameSean Penn, the Oscar-winning actor of the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk and Milk writer Dustin Lance Black have spoken out against US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to remove the gay rights icon’s name from a navy ship.“This is yet another move to distract and to fuel the culture wars that create division,” Black told the Hollywood Reporter in a phone call on Wednesday. “It’s meant to get us to react in ways that are self-centered so that we are further distanced from our brothers and sisters in equally important civil rights fights in this country. It’s divide and conquer.” Continue reading...

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