Tag: Atlantic

14 SEP

Air Canada Joins the Club of Airlines Crossing the Atlantic With 737s

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08 SEP

Flight Review: Virgin Atlantic (787-9) Economy from London to New York

Flight Review: Virgin Atlantic (787-9) Economy, LHR to JFK Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]

08 SEP

Striking footage from space shows all three hurricanes — Irma, Jose, and Katia — swirling in the Atlantic

CIRA/RAMMB; GOES-16/NOAA Irma, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, hit several Caribbean islands as a Category 5 storm on Wednesday, leaving devastation and destruction in its wake. Meanwhile, storms Jose and Katia are also brewing. Katia is now a Category 2 hurricane with 100-mph winds, and Jose and Irma are both Category […]

06 SEP

‘May God protect us all’: Most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded makes landfall in the Caribbean

NOAA ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — Hurricane Irma roared into the Caribbean with record-setting force early Wednesday, shaking people in their homes on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on a path toward Puerto Rico and possibly Florida by the weekend. Irma, which was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded north of the Caribbean and […]

06 SEP

Irma reaches 185 mph, trailing only Allen as strongest Atlantic storm

Enlarge / Satellite image of Hurricane Irma at 1pm ET on Tuesday. (credit: NOAA) We are quickly running out of adjectives to describe the destructive potential of Hurricane Irma. As of 2pm ET on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm’s sustained winds to 185mph. This is near-record speed for a storm in the […]

03 SEP

9 Things No One Tells You About… Atlantic City

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21 AUG

Solar Eclipse 2017: Virgin Atlantic passengers get the best view from 35,000 feet

The solar eclipse has been watched by millions of people around the world. Many Americans even battled out huge traffic jams and roadblocks as they travelled around the country to get the best view of the eclipse, the first one in America in 99 years. However, 260 people got what was arguably the best view […]

28 JUL

Emerson Collective Acquires Majority Stake in The Atlantic

David G. Bradley, the chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, is announcing this morning that he is selling a majority stake in The Atlantic to Emerson Collective, an organization led by philanthropist and investor Laurene Powell Jobs. Bradley will retain a minority stake in The Atlantic and will continue as chairman and operating partner for […]

28 JUL

Laurene Powell Jobs’ company is taking majority ownership of The Atlantic

Neilson Barnard / Getty Images Laurene Powell Jobs, through her company Emerson Collective, will take majority ownership of The Atlantic, the company announced Friday. The majority ownership gives Emerson Collective access to the magazine’s digital properties, live events business, and consulting services, according to the press release. Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple’s Steve Jobs, who […]