John Wayne Airport in Orange County tops the list of North America’s favorite airports
Despite a record year of passenger numbers, flight cancellations, and delays, a new survey has revealed that flyers have been increasingly satisfied about their experiences in North American airports.
According to this year’s North America Airport Satisfaction Study from data analysts at J.D. Power, overall passenger satisfaction scores were up 10 points (on a 1,000-point scale), largely from “improvements in food, beverage and retail and ease of travel through the airport.” The annual survey measures overall traveler satisfaction across the region’s airports in seven categories (in order of importance): ease of travel, level of trust, terminal facilities, airport staff, airport departure experience, food and retail, and airport arrival experience.
Here are the region’s favorites:
Britain is on track to shed more than one pub a day this year
Rising costs and lower spending are hitting the UK’s drinking establishments.
China is driving renewable energy growth globally — it’s also the world’s biggest coal producer
As the US pulls back on wind and solar investments, China is going all in on both clean energy and carbon-emitting sources.
Traffic to the Astronomer company’s website jumped more than 15,000% after the viral Coldplay clip
Well, that’s one way to drive some traffic to your software company’s website.
After a clip from the Coldplay concert in Boston went viral, traffic to “astronomer.io” — the website of the SAAS enterprise run by (now former) CEO Andy Byron — exploded in true viral style. According to data from Similarweb, daily visits clocked in at more than 1.4 million on July 17.
That’s roughly 150x the typical traffic that the website was getting on a daily basis, with average daily page visits clocking in at just over 9,000 from June 21 to July 16, Similarweb data shows.
But the deluge of visitors were probably disappointed upon their arrival, with the company’s main product significantly less entertaining than its CEO’s antics. Per the company’s website, its product “empowers your team to build, run, and observe data pipelines that just work, all from one place.”
Surely, out of the millions of people looking the company up, there is someone who thought: wait, my company does actually need something just like this.
Record-high coffee prices poised to keep rising on upcoming Brazil tariffs
Anyone who relies on a morning cup of coffee will have noticed how much their caffeine kick has been setting them back of late.
Now, as the Trump administration prepares to impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil to the US from August 1, people may have to fork out even more.
Coffee prices have recently surged to an all-time high, hitting $7.93 per pound of ground roast coffee in May — up from $5.99 in the same period last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data first reported by The New York Times.
Coffee prices have recently surged to an all-time high, hitting $7.93 per pound of ground roast coffee in May — up from $5.99 in the same period last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data first reported by The New York Times.
Eli Lilly is fattening its stockpiles of GLP-1s to prevent tariffs from trimming its profits
Imports of peptides and protein-based hormones — the category that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs fall under — from Ireland are already more than double than last year.
President Trump threatens 10% additional tariffs on countries backing “anti-American” BRICS policies
The BRICS bloc has grown to represent nearly 40% of global GDP in recent years.
By 2030, AI data centers could take a bigger share of carbon emissions than flights do currently
Running AI compute on phones could offer a glimmer of hope for reducing the tech’s mounting power use.
NATO allies agree to 5% defense spending target — but which countries spend the most on their military already?
Leaders of 32 major European and North American countries met at the NATO summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday and agreed to commit to spending 5% of gross domestic product on defense by 2035, an enormous rise from the previous target of 2%.
Ahead of the meeting, the alliance endorsed Article 5 of its founding treaty in light of rising international tensions.
Europeans hit back against overtourism
Last summer, record numbers of tourists visited Europe’s top attractions. Now, many residents have had enough.
