United Airlines Set To End Free Rebooking For 737 MAX Passengers
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With a trouble-free return to United States’ skies for the 737 MAX, one United States-based airline is quietly dropping its special flight change and refund policy for passengers who find themselves booked to fly on a 737 MAX. For reservations made on or after Thursday, April 8, United Airlines will no longer allow passengers to change their itinerary or seek a refund just because they find themselves flying on a 737 MAX.
United Airlines is dropping its generous cancelation and change policies applying to 737 MAX flights. Photo: United Airlines
A trouble-free return of the 737 MAX sees United Airlines normalize its cancelation & change policies
‘Adam Habib is no racist,’ says Thuli Madonsela and others
Adam Habib found himself at the centre of a racial storm after he used the n-word, during a virtual session with SOAS students and now the likes of Thuli Madonsela are standing by him
Former public protector, advocate Thuli Madonsela is one of several people who have come to Professor Adam Habib’s defence, in the wake of racism allegations which led to him being asked to step aside from his post as the director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Madonsela, United States-based writers Justice Malala, Palesa Morudu and former chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission Barney Pityana, penned an article in which warned against Habib’s removal, saying this would lead to “the silencing of all voices.”
Following an Al Jazeera investigation, a broad coalition of Indian American activists and United States-based civil rights organisations has called on the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to probe how Hindu right-wing groups received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
A statement issued by the Coalition to Stop Genocide in India this week said the Hindu groups that received the funds have “existential links” with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the “fountainhead of Hindu supremacist ideology” and “ideological parent” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Last week, Al Jazeera reported how five Hindu right-wing groups with links to Hindu nationalist organisations in India received more than $833,000 in direct payments and loans, according to data released by the Small Business Administration (SBA), a US federal agency that helps small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Moody’s Investors Service Inc says it expects casino operators MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd to pursue new “large, high profile” development opportunities “around the world,” which would require “significant” investment and debt. The comments were part of updates published on Wednesday on credit issuers linked to companies with operations in Macau.
The ratings agency said it expected MGM Resorts to “actively pursue other large integrated resort [IR] development projects (e.g., Japan) that would require significant equity investment and debt to finance construction and will continue to expand its domestic operations.”
MGM Resorts and its local partner Orix remain the only qualified consortium in the request-for-proposal (RFP) process of Japan’s Osaka prefecture, concerning the metropolis’ tilt at having a casino resort.
Names, emails, phone numbers and workplace details that reportedly belong to 500 million users being offered for sale on hacking forum. Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has asked the US-based company for clarification on whether any residents are affected in the second big data breach this week. SCMP
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog was seeking clarifications on Wednesday night from career networking site LinkedIn over residents’ possible exposure from a reported leak of personal data involving 500 million users worldwide.
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling said she was trying to reach out to the United States-based company after online publication CyberNews reported that information on roughly 500 million LinkedIn users was being offered for sale on a popular hacking forum.