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		<title>Disneyland Grad Nite 2025 Ticket prices rise to 17% &#8211; the Mercury News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The seniors of the highschool have to save lots of somewhat extra money or ask their parents to take a deeper deal of their wallets in the event that they need to go to Disney California Adventure in 2025 and wish to participate in the ultimate ceremony which have been an annual tradition for a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The seniors of the highschool have to save lots of somewhat extra money or ask their parents to take a deeper deal of their wallets in the event that they need to go to Disney California Adventure in 2025 and wish to participate in the ultimate ceremony which have been an annual tradition for a long time.</p>
<p>For 2025, Disneyland increased the costs from 7% to 17% for graduates -nite packages in comparison with ticket costs from the previous 12 months.</p>
<p>The celebrations for the graduates 2025 happen in May and June within the Disney California Adventure.</p>
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<p>Grade Nite 2025 will happen on 9, twelfth, 18th, twenty first, twenty second, twenty seventh, twenty eighth, thirtieth and 1st June, the 4th, 6, 8, 11 and 13,.</p>
<p>The celebrations of Grad Nite will run from 9:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. at DJ with DJ dance parties, topic-related food and drinks and the grey photo surgery with Disney characters in final equipment.</p>
<p>The seniors of the highschool have three ticket options for graduates to select from:</p>
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<li>Grad nite private party experience with access to DCA from 9 p.m. (119 to 124 US dollars)</li>
<li>Full-day DCA entry that features the Grad Nite Party ($ 149 to $ 169)</li>
<li>Parking hopper option with entry to the parks and the party after Yours (239 to $ 259)</li>
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<p>The DCA can be near Grad Nites near 9:00 p.m. near day visitors.</p>
<p>Visitors who&#8217;re planning in May and June should control Disneyland&#39;s tasks, and the DCA are increasingly overcrowded when the highschool seniors arrive for degrees nite all day. <a href="https://mouseplanet.com/disneyland-resort-update-for-february-25-2025/49349/">Mouse planet</a>.</p>
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<p>Originally published: <time datetime="2025-02-27 05:15:55">February 27, 2025 at 5:15 a.m. PST</time></p>
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		<title>Find the dates, details and ticket information here – The Mercury News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oogie Boogie Bash will likely be back in 2025 with more nights than ever before and the earliest start within the history of the annual Halloween after-hours party on the Disneyland resort. Oogie Boogie Bash 2025 will happen on 31 select nights from August seventeenth to October thirty first at Disney California Adventure. Ghosts from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Oogie Boogie Bash will likely be back in 2025 with more nights than ever before and the earliest start within the history of the annual Halloween after-hours party on the Disneyland resort.</p>
<p>Oogie Boogie Bash 2025 will happen on 31 select nights from August seventeenth to October thirty first at Disney California Adventure.</p>
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<p>We currently have all the small print, dates and ticket information for the Oogie Boogie Bash. More information is anticipated to be released as Halloween approaches.</p>
<p>Oogie Boogie Bash 2025 will happen on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, except for Halloween – which falls on a Friday.</p>
<p>Here are the dates for the Oogie Boogie Bash in 2025:</p>
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<li>August seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty first, twenty fourth, twenty sixth, twenty eighth, thirty first</li>
<li>September 2nd, ninth, eleventh, 14th, sixteenth, 18th, twenty first, twenty third, twenty fifth, twenty eighth, thirtieth</li>
<li>2nd, fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth, 14th, sixteenth, nineteenth, twenty first, twenty third, twenty sixth, twenty eighth, thirty first Oct</li>
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<p>The 5-hour after-party starts at 6 p.m., with the mix-in starting three hours earlier.</p>
<p>Disneyland has already confirmed that the Frightfully Fun Parade and Villains Grove haunted experience will return in 2025, together with trick-or-treat trails, meet-and-greet photo ops with Disney characters in Halloween costumes , specialty themed food etc drinks and collectible items.</p>
<p><strong>RELATED: All Disneyland events, parades and fireworks shows in 2025</strong></p>
<p>Disney PhotoPass once more offers unlimited free downloads and every participant receives a memento.</p>
<p>Adults and kids can dress up for the event &#8211; but there are a couple of rules.</p>
<p>Dressing up like a Disney, Pixar, Marvel or Star Wars character is allowed, but you usually are not allowed to pose for photos or sign autographs.</p>
<p>Costumes can&#8217;t be offensive, violent, or offensive (even when that feels like an apt description of Deadpool). Costumes must not drag on the ground (just about any full-length Disney princess dress) or have sharp or pointy details (leave your vibranium spear at home).</p>
<p>Disneyland has not yet announced when tickets will go on sale for the 2025 Oogie Boogie Bash or how much admission will cost for the separate entry event.</p>
<p>Tickets cost $134 to $189 in 2024, with prices increasing as Halloween approaches. Ticket prices increased by $5 to $10 in 2023 but didn&#8217;t increase in 2024.</p>
<p>Disneyland began ticket sales in 2024 within the last week of June, with Inspire Magic Keyholders receiving the primary batch, followed by all Magic Keyholders after which most of the people.</p>
<p>The waiting room for online ticket counters opened at roughly 8:45 a.m., sales began at 9:00 a.m. each day on the earliest.</p>
<p>Ticket buyers waiting in the web queue could possibly be notified via email when it was their turn to buy tickets using the “Notify Me” option.</p>
<p>A limited variety of tickets were available for each Magic Key pre-sales.</p>
<p>You&#39;ll need to keep an eye fixed out in June 2025, when Disneyland is anticipated to announce the on-sale dates for Oogie Boogie Bash.</p>
<p>When tickets finally go on sale, you&#39;ll must act quickly. In recent years, every night of the Oogie Boogie Bash has been sold out <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2023/07/12/disneyland-sells-out-of-oogie-boogie-bash-tickets-in-12-hours-after-nightmare-sales-launch/">days</a> unless <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2024/07/06/disneyland-sells-out-of-oogie-boogie-bash-tickets-in-11-days/">hours</a>.</p>
<p>Magic key holders won&#8217;t receive discounts on Oogie Boogie Bash tickets. Events happen rain or shine and there are not any refunds. Parking just isn&#8217;t included within the ticket price.</p>
<p>If you miss out on tickets, don&#39;t even take into consideration buying them on eBay or StubHub. <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2024/07/18/dont-buy-those-900-oogie-boogie-bash-tickets-on-stubhub-disneyland-is-watching/">Disneyland is watching</a>. Exactly.</p>
<p>Oogie Boogie Bash tickets can&#8217;t be resold or transferred – and Disneyland will retire scaled tickets.</p>
<p>And in case you&#39;re completely happy to be an annual passholder, don&#39;t even take into consideration selling your extra Oogie Boogie Bash tickets on the aftermarket &#8211; because Disneyland will revoke your Magic Key <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2024/04/15/disneyland-annual-passholder-fights-1-year-ban-for-selling-tickets-on-ebay/">ban you from the park</a>.</p>
<p>The Oogie Boogie Bash 2025 after-hours party is separate from Halloween Time at Disneyland and Plaza de la Familia at Disney California Adventure, each of which begin August 22 and hit the parks during All Hallow&#39;s Eve season.</p>
<p>All of the Halloween attraction overlays you already know from past seasons are expected to return, including Haunted Mansion, Guardians of the Galaxy &#8211; Mission: Breakout, Mater&#39;s Junkyard Jamboree and Luigi&#39;s Rollickin&#39; Roadsters.</p>
<p>Originally published: <time datetime="2024-12-12 06:00:47">December 12, 2024 at 6:00 am PST</time></p>
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		<title>Help! Iberia Airlines is issuing a $4,005 ticket credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear travel problem solver: I recently canceled a flight with Iberia Airlines and the airline offered me a $4,005 ticket credit valid through November 4th. However, after I tried to book a brand new flight, Iberia rejected the ticket voucher code. After several calls to the client service department, I received an email saying that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Dear travel problem solver:</strong> I recently canceled a flight with Iberia Airlines and the airline offered me a $4,005 ticket credit valid through November 4th. However, after I tried to book a brand new flight, Iberia rejected the ticket voucher code. After several calls to the client service department, I received an email saying that the voucher had been blocked &#8220;for security reasons.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Iberia instructed me to file a grievance on the web site, which I did. I received an email saying I might hear back in seven days, but that didn&#39;t occur. Since then I actually have revamped 11 calls to Iberia. Representatives kept promising me a substitute voucher but never sent me one. In the meantime, I paid $3,952 for a brand new ticket.</p>
<p>I would really like Iberia to pay me the total value of the voucher or refund me the worth of the brand new flight and issue a voucher for the remaining amount.</p>
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<p><strong>ANSWER:</strong> Iberia wasn&#39;t fallacious to suspend your ticket balance, nevertheless it must have restored it quickly.</p>
<p>Why do I support the airline&#39;s decision to freeze your ticket credit? Because loads of shenanigans occur with ticket vouchers, gift cards and loyalty programs, and airlines are right to be cautious. But once they punish the fallacious person &#8211; like you probably did &#8211; they should quickly turn around and apologize. And that didn&#39;t occur.</p>
<p>What actually happened was months of waiting, although Iberia had assured you that it will restore your credit. The guarantees ranged from “in a few hours” to “next week” to “in a few days.”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, you had canceled your flights because of medical treatment. Some airlines will issue a full refund in the event you can provide a medical certificate. Therefore, Iberia should even have refunded your tickets, which were in business class.</p>
<p>By the way in which, you need to never accept an airline ticket voucher unless there is no such thing as a other alternative. As you&#39;ve discovered, ticket credits can expire or be revoked, meaning the airline keeps your money without providing you with anything back. This is an ideal deal for an airline like Iberia, but not for you.</p>
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<p>A fast, polite appeal to a manager at Iberia may need solved this problem for you. I publish the names, phone numbers and email addresses of Iberia customer support representatives on my consumer protection page. <a href="http://Elliott.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliott.org</a>.</p>
<p>I actually have contacted Iberia in your behalf. True to form, the airline initially ignored my advocacy team&#39;s requests. But after repeated requests, a voucher was finally issued that&#8217;s valid for 14 months. To be on the secure side, you tested the code on Iberia&#39;s website and it really works!</p>
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<p>Originally published: <time datetime="2024-12-03 06:30:29">December 3, 2024 at 6:30 am PST</time></p>
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		<title>Disneyland ticket price hike breaks $200 mark – The Mercury News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disneyland has increased prices on most day passes and annual passes while keeping its lowest admission price unchanged because the Anaheim theme park prepares for the premiere of Tiana&#39;s Bayou Adventure in November and a year-long seventieth anniversary celebration in 2025. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure ticket prices rose a mean of 6% on Wednesday, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Disneyland has increased prices on most day passes and annual passes while keeping its lowest admission price unchanged because the Anaheim theme park prepares for the premiere of Tiana&#39;s Bayou Adventure in November and a year-long seventieth anniversary celebration in 2025.</p>
<p>Disneyland and Disney California Adventure ticket prices rose a mean of 6% on Wednesday, October 9, with the most cost effective Magic Key annual pass rising 20%.</p>
<p>    Disneyland offers $50 children&#39;s tickets and a 25% hotel discount</p>
<p>According to Disneyland officials, the Disneyland resort offers a wide selection of ticket, dining and hotel options, in addition to special offers all year long to assist visitors get monetary savings.</p>
<p>The most costly single-park, single-day ticket for Disneyland and Disney California Adventure broke the $200 barrier for the primary time within the park&#39;s 69-year history. A decade ago, a one-park, one-day ticket to Disneyland cost $96 in 2014, before Disneyland moved to a tiered pricing system.</p>
<p>The most costly tickets in Disneyland&#39;s seven-tier pricing system rose from $194 to $206 for a one-day park entry and from $259 to $271 for a one-day park hopper.</p>
<p>The least expensive day ticket for a park has remained unchanged at $104 since 2019. The least expensive Parkhopper day ticket also stays unchanged at $169.</p>
<p>Day ticket prices for individual parks increased 0% to six.5%: Tier 0 ($104), Tier 1 ($126), Tier 2 ($142), Tier 3 ($164), Tier 4 ($180 ), Tier 5 ($196) and Tier 6 ($206).</p>
<p>There were similar increases for multi-day tickets. Two-day single-park tickets increased to $330 (from $310), while three-day tickets now cost $415 for access to a single park (from $390).</p>
<p>Disneyland Magic Key Annual Pass prices increased from 6% to twenty%.</p>
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<li>Inspire Pass: $1,749, plus 6%</li>
<li>Believe Pass: $1,374, up 10%</li>
<li>Enchantment Pass: $974, plus 14.7%</li>
<li>Imagine Pass (Southern California residents only): $599, 20% more</li>
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<p>Daily theme park parking fees remained unchanged at $35.</p>
<p>With the recent increases, Disneyland continues to make use of ticket prices to administer attendance and spread visitation from peak times to slower times of the 12 months.</p>
<p>Starting in 2016, Disneyland switched to a demand-based pricing system with tickets divided into tiers. The variety of tiers has increased from three in 2016 ($95 to $119) to 5 in 2020 ($104 to $154), six in 2021 ($104 to $164) and 7 in 2022 ($104 to $179) increased.</p>
<p>Disney ticket price increases are inclined to have a domino effect: Universal Studios Hollywood, SeaWorld San Diego and Knott&#39;s Berry Farm soon raise admission prices to maintain pace with the industry leader.</p>
<p>Disneyland softened the blow of the recent price increase with one <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2024/10/03/disneyland-offers-50-kids-tickets-and-25-hotel-discounts/">recent discount campaign</a> Tickets starting at $50 for one-day park visits can be found for youngsters ages 3 to 9 from January 7 through March 20.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Disneyland ticket price increase has grow to be an October tradition in recent times, and one other cost increase could soon be on the way in which because the Anaheim theme park prepares to have fun its seventieth anniversary in 2025. “Disneyland increases ticket prices every October like clockwork,” they are saying MouseChat. Based [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>A Disneyland ticket price increase has grow to be an October tradition in recent times, and one other cost increase could soon be on the way in which because the Anaheim theme park prepares to have fun its seventieth anniversary in 2025.</p>
<p>“Disneyland increases ticket prices every October like clockwork,” they are saying <a href="https://www.micechat.com/398835-disneyland-news-christmas-creep-splash-peek-guest-sneak/">MouseChat</a>.</p>
<p>Based on recent history, a Disneyland ticket price increase could occur in mid-October sometime between October eighth and October sixteenth <a href="https://mickeyvisit.com/disney-ticket-prices-increase-expected/">Mickey visit</a>.</p>
<p>The story of Disneyland&#39;s Critter Country from Indian war canoes to bayou BBQ</p>
<p>Over the past five years, Disneyland&#39;s annual price increases have shifted from the start of the calendar 12 months to mid-October &#8211; partly on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The last price increase dates:</p>
<p>The most costly day ticket for a park has increased from $149 in 2019 to $154 in 2020, $164 in 2021, $179 in 2022 and $194 in 2023.</p>
<p>Disneyland ticket prices have increased by $6 to $15 annually over the past five years. The average ticket price increase tended to be within the 5 to eight% range.</p>
<p>The most cost-effective single day ticket for the park is out there <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/18/disneyland-ticket-prices-havent-gone-up-much-in-a-decade-if-you-know-when-to-go/">remained unchanged at $104</a> since 2019.</p>
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<p>Disneyland is anticipated to extend ticket prices within the second or third week of October, in response to a forecast from Mickey Visit, a theme park vacation planning website.</p>
<p>For the past two years, Disneyland has experienced price increases on October eleventh &#8211; a Tuesday in 2022 and a Wednesday in 2023. This 12 months, October eleventh falls on a Friday.</p>
<p>Mickey Visit expects the Disneyland ticket price increase to drop on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the course of the month &#8211; either October eighth or ninth or October fifteenth or sixteenth.</p>
<p>Disneyland is closing 4 attractions throughout the busy Halloween season</p>
<p>Normally, Disneyland softens the blow with a reduction promotion shortly before the ticket price increase is announced.</p>
<p>“If we see a new discount being introduced, that is a good indicator that the price increase is imminent,” Gavin Doyle, founding father of Mickey Visit, said by email.</p>
<p>Buying tickets to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure now, before the value increase occurs, will prevent money for those who&#39;re planning a visit to the parks throughout the winter holidays or early next 12 months.</p>
<p>The cost of tickets to Disneyland has increased from $43 in 2000 to $104 to $194 for bulk-priced tickets in 2023.</p>
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<p><strong>Fair payment:</strong> To prevent BART fare evaders from jumping the fare gates, the transit agency last week began replacing the present fare gates within the Civic Center station concourse with latest ones. The latest gates are positioned on the north end of the concourse and are closest to the Seventh Street entrance. The project is predicted to take several weeks, but the corporate says they&#8217;re evasion-proof. The station&#39;s other two fare gates will remain open during installation work. Once the brand new gates are installed, BART will replace all remaining old fare gates on the station. In April, staff successfully installed a brand new fare gate on the elevator entrance on the Civic Center station platform.</p>
<p><strong>Help is on the way in which:</strong> Drivers stranded on Bay Area highways receive help from the <a href="https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/traveler-services/freeway-service-patrol">Highway Service Patrol</a>a free service provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. More than 100 drivers from 11 towing firms cover 25 precincts within the Bay Area. The teams help drivers with mechanical problems, flat tires, vehicles which have run out of gas, and people with overheated engines and dead batteries. They also assist police in clearing the scene. The teams are on the highways every weekday morning and evening during rush hours, and in select areas with heavy traffic on weekends. Last yr, the teams helped over 65,000 people, with a mean response time of lower than 12 minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Cleantech collaboration:</strong> EV Maritime, a New Zealand electric ferry development and technology company, has been awarded the <a href="https://angelislandferry.com/">Angel Island/Tiburon Ferry</a> to impress two existing vessels and construct a 3rd latest plug-in hybrid vessel. The hybrid vessel can be designed and constructed by EV Maritime, with electrical integration handled by Bay Area company ZeroMar. The ferries will operate between Tiburon and Angel Island, in addition to for personal charters, whale watching, and sunset cruises. Angel Island State Park is the biggest natural island in San Francisco Bay and a well-liked destination for mountain climbing, biking, and picnicking.</p>
<p><strong>Rolling fun:</strong> The <a href="https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230310-0">BARTmobile,</a> It&#39;s the 700-pound, eight-seat fiberglass automotive with a smiling face on the front&#39;s birthday, and the agency is inviting the Bay Area to have a good time on the Orinda BART station on Saturday, July 27, between 1 and 4 p.m. For twenty years, the BARTmobile has been a staple at local events and parades. To have a good time the occasion, BART may have a DJ on site, offer carnival games, face painting, free cupcakes and kettle corn, and free rides on the BARTmobile. BART will host other events all year long, including Sound Tracks &#8211; free live music by local artists in non-fare areas of the stations.</p>
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<p><strong>Excitement about electrification:</strong> Starting August 11, Caltrain will offer limited weekend service with its latest electric trains. On September 21, Caltrain will implement a brand new schedule and offer all-electric service seven days every week north of San Jose&#39;s Diridon station. Over the roughly six weeks between those two dates, diesel trains can be regularly replaced with electric trains. With the support of state and federal funds, the Caltrain electrification project is replacing the whole aging diesel fleet with state-of-the-art electric trains, making it the primary diesel-to-electric conversion within the country in a generation. The express service allows commuters to travel between San Francisco and San Jose in under an hour and offers reliable Wi-Fi, restrooms, air-con and power sources. Caltrain says the brand new trains will improve service by 20% because they&#8217;ll speed up and decelerate much faster than diesel trains.</p>
<p>Originally published: <time datetime="2024-07-21 06:30:33">July 21, 2024 at 6:30 am</time></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[politics NEW YORK (AP) — This has been a Republican scaremongering tactic for years. A vote for re-election President Joe BidenThe Republican Party often accuses it of being a vote for Vice President Kamala HarrisIt is a line of attack that sometimes has a touch of racist and misogynistic undertones and sometimes macabre imagery. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>NEW YORK (AP) — This has been a Republican scaremongering tactic for years.</p>
<p>A vote for re-election <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a>The Republican Party often accuses it of being a vote for <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/kamala-harris">Vice President Kamala Harris</a>It is a line of attack that sometimes has a touch of racist and misogynistic undertones and sometimes macabre imagery.</p>
<p>But after Biden’s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/president-joe-biden-campaign-wisconsin-abc-news-e4657f86f5e82b10a5fefb526bc49b08">miserable performance within the presidential debate last week</a>which has sparked Democratic calls for his resignation, what was once dismissed as a far-right conspiracy – Harris replacing Biden – may now have a likelihood of becoming a reality. And Republicans, including <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>intensify their attacks.</p>
<p>Trump and his allies have rolled out latest lines of attack against Harris, insulting her abilities, portraying her as Biden&#39;s top supporter and accusing her of involvement in covering up his health &#8211; an effort, campaign officials say, that doesn&#8217;t reflect their concerns a couple of potential change at the highest of the ticket as Biden insists he is just not dropping out of the race.</p>
<p>But in an Independence Day post on his website Truth Social on Thursday, Trump singled out Harris, calling her his &#8220;potential new Democratic challenger&#8221; and giving her a brand new derisive nickname: &#8220;Laffin&#39; Kamala Harris.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;She did poorly in the Democratic nomination process, starting out as a No. 2 seed and ultimately losing before she even reached Iowa. But that doesn&#39;t mean she isn&#39;t a &#39;highly talented&#39; politician! Just ask her mentor, the great Willie Brown of San Francisco,&#8221; he wrote. (Harris dated Brown within the mid-Nineties.)</p>
<p>The post got here after Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles released an announcement earlier this week using a special but similar nickname, referring to her as Biden&#39;s &#8220;giggling co-pilot Kamala Harris.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump also released a profanity-laced video, first reported by the Daily Beast, by which he&#8217;s seen on the golf course calling Biden an &#8220;old, broken piece of crap&#8221; and declaring that he knocked the president out of the race. (Trump has repeatedly said in interviews that he didn&#8217;t expect Biden to be dismissed.)</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#39;s giving up the race,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And that means we have Kamala. I think she&#39;s going to be better. She&#39;s so bad. She&#39;s so pathetic,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Allies also joined within the attacks, portraying Harris as the highest defender of Biden&#39;s abilities and accusing her of lying to the American public.</p>
<p>Biden, the White House and his campaign insist he has no plans to drop out of the race. In an interview with ABC News that aired Friday night, he said only &#8220;the Lord Almighty&#8221; could knock him out of the race.</p>
<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back against the tone of the attacks against Harris, particularly Trump&#39;s decision to deal with a decades-old relationship and use other sexist rhetoric.</p>
<p>&#8220;I find that disgusting, I find that disturbing,&#8221; Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. &#8220;She should be respected in her role as vice president. She should be respected like every other vice president before her who has been in this room. It&#39;s appalling &#8211; I&#39;ll be careful here &#8211; that a former president would say something like that about a current vice president. And we should denounce that &#8211; that&#39;s not OK.&#8221;</p>
<p>It stays unclear how Harris would fare against Trump in comparison with Biden. Replacing a candidate so late in a presidential cycle &#8211; let alone an incumbent president who has already swept the Democratic Party primaries &#8211; can be unprecedented in modern history, and the mechanics are complicated and potentially messy.</p>
<p>Polls show Harris&#39;s approval rankings are just like those of Biden and Trump. A June AP-NORC poll found that about 4 in 10 Americans have a good opinion of her. However, the share who&#8217;ve an unfavorable opinion is barely lower than for Trump and Biden, and about 1 in 10 still has no opinion of her.</p>
<p>Harris, 59, can be a stark generational contrast to Trump, who&#8217;s 78 and in addition showing signs of age. As the primary woman, first Black person and first person of South Asian descent to function vice chairman, she would even be a potentially groundbreaking candidate who could win support from women, minority voters and younger people &#8211; groups with whom Trump has tried to make significant inroads.</p>
<p>Harris has also been the Biden administration&#39;s leading voice on abortion rights, a key issue for Democrats because the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which could again boost voter turnout this fall.</p>
<p>Trump&#39;s campaign team, nonetheless, said it was confident in Trump&#39;s probabilities no matter his opponent, and rejected the concept Harris could pose a greater challenge to Trump, saying she is a more polarizing figure than the president.</p>
<p>“President Trump will beat every Democrat on November 5 because he has a proven track record and a goal to Make America Great Again,” LaCivita and Wiles said of their statement.</p>
<p>One campaign official said the deal with Harris was more a mirrored image of the present media deal with the Democratic nomination slate than a belief that she would ultimately replace Biden.</p>
<p>While the party has loads of research on the opposition because of Harris&#39; 2020 campaign and her years as vice chairman, ultimately, they argue, Biden&#39;s record is Harris&#39;s record, and if she were to switch Biden, Trump&#39;s advisers wouldn&#8217;t be facing a wholly different race.</p>
<p>Harris, for instance, was tapped by Biden to guide the administration&#39;s response to the basis causes of the border crisis, which ties them to one among his weakest issues. And if he does indeed drop out, they argue, voters will now not give you the option to trust the administration, Harris and the press for not bringing Biden&#39;s weaknesses to light sooner.</p>
<p>&#8220;The economy is still the economy, the border is still the border, there are still global conflicts,&#8221; said Trump campaign spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez. &#8220;And changing the person at the top of the ballot does not change those realities for the American voters.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – The NFL has been found guilty of violating antitrust laws in its distribution of Sunday afternoon games out of market through its premium subscription service Sunday Ticket. Even though a jury of 5 men and three women in a US district court awarded the private and industrial subscribers of the &#8220;Sunday Ticket&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – The NFL has been found guilty of violating antitrust laws in its distribution of Sunday afternoon games out of market through its premium subscription service Sunday Ticket.</p>
<p>Even though a jury of 5 men and three women in a US district court awarded the private and industrial subscribers of the &#8220;Sunday Ticket&#8221; damages of just about 4.8 billion dollars on Thursday, neither settlement checks nor the discontinuation of the service are to be expected within the near future.</p>
<h4>How did the jury determine?</h4>
<h4>How long did the method take?</h4>
<p>Three weeks. It began with opening arguments on June 6 and included 10 days of testimony before closing arguments on Wednesday. The jury deliberated for nearly five hours on Wednesday and Thursday before reaching a call.</p>
<p>The NFL invited Commissioner Roger Goodell and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones as witnesses, but that didn&#8217;t help. The plaintiffs relied mainly on economic experts and videos of pre-trial testimony.</p>
<h4>Who were the plaintiffs?</h4>
<p>The class motion lawsuit affected greater than 2.4 million private customers and 48,000 businesses, primarily bars and restaurants, that purchased the NFL Sunday Ticket from June 17, 2011, to February 7, 2023.</p>
<h4>What is the character of the damage?</h4>
<p>The jury awarded $4.7 billion to non-public clients and $96 million to businesses. Because damages are tripled under federal antitrust law, the NFL could ultimately be responsible for $14.39 billion if it doesn&#8217;t settle or has its penalty reduced.</p>
<p>The residential damages were barely lower than the $5.6 billion offered to plaintiffs under their college football model, but higher than under a model through which Sunday Ticket would have had multiple providers and reduced subscription costs by 49.7% ($2.81 billion).</p>
<p>The business damages were much smaller than those presented by the plaintiffs of their three models, with the bottom damage being $332 million under the so-called “NFL Tax” model.</p>
<h4>How would the NFL pay damages?</h4>
<p>The sum can be divided evenly among the many 32 teams. This signifies that each team could pay as much as $449.6 million.</p>
<h4>Will there be immediate changes?</h4>
<p>Changes to the Sunday Ticket package and/or the best way the NFL broadcasts its Sunday afternoon games can be placed on hold until all appeals are resolved. However, if the league was smart, it could start offering team-by-team or week-by-week packages while lowering the worth.</p>
<p>ESPN had proposed offering Sunday Ticket for $70 per season with team-by-team packages in 2022, however the NFL rejected it before moving forward with YouTube TV.</p>
<p>If the NFL had offered individual packages for individual teams from the start, certainly one of the lead plaintiffs likely wouldn&#8217;t have been a part of the lawsuit.</p>
<p>Rob Lippincott, a New Orleans native who moved to California, bought Sunday Tickets only for Saints games.</p>
<p>&#8220;He just wanted the Saints. If he had the choice to buy a single-team package and watch Saints games, he absolutely would have done that,&#8221; plaintiffs&#39; attorney Amanda Bonn said in her opening statement on June 6.</p>
<h4>But college football had to alter, why not the NFL?</h4>
<p>The groundbreaking case regarding college football on television in 1984 was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. This happened on the U.S. District Court level.</p>
<p>The NFL announced it could appeal the ruling, which might go to the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after which possibly to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be the primary time the ninth Circuit has heard this case.</p>
<p>The lawsuit was originally filed in 2015 by San Francisco sports bar Mucky Duck. On June 30, 2017, U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O&#39;Connell dismissed the lawsuit, ruling in favor of the NFL. Two years later, the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the case.</p>
<h4>What were the important thing aspects within the plaintiff&#39;s case?</h4>
<p>In his closing remarks he said: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nfl-sunday-ticket-lawsuit-1a3d5b7d1b10fe0e852f144f2168b834">Lead attorney Bill Carmody showed an NFL memo from April 2017</a> This showed that in 2017 the league was exploring a world without &#8220;Sunday Ticket,&#8221; through which cable channels broadcast games outside their market on Sunday afternoons that weren&#8217;t shown on Fox or CBS.</p>
<p>Although Judge Philip S. Gutierrez expressed his frustration with the plaintiffs&#39; attorneys midway through the trial, Carmody&#39;s closing argument was clear and straightforward to grasp.</p>
<h4>Was the NFL the underdog on this process?</h4>
<p>The NFL will be the queen of American sports and some of the powerful leagues on this planet, nevertheless it often loses in court, especially in Los Angeles. In 1982, a federal court in Los Angeles ruled that the league had violated antitrust laws by not allowing Al Davis to maneuver the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles.</p>
<h4>What&#39;s next?</h4>
<p>All eyes are on July 31, when Gutierrez is scheduled to listen to post-trial motions, including the NFL&#39;s request that he rule in favor of the league since the judge ruled the plaintiffs did not prove their case.</p>
<h4>Could this have an effect on other sports?</h4>
<p>All major leagues offer out-of-market packages and are watching this case closely, as selling individual teams&#39; out-of-market streaming rights &#8211; especially in baseball &#8211; would further increase the divide between wealthy and poor.</p>
<p>A key difference, nonetheless, is that MLB, NBA and NHL sell their off-market packages through multiple distributors and share the revenue per subscriber slightly than receiving a direct rights fee.</p>
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<p>The German airline Lufthansa Group announced on Tuesday that it could impose an &#8220;environmental cost surcharge&#8221; on ticket prices this week, which could possibly be as high as 72 euros (77 dollars) on some flights.</p>
<p>“The surcharge is intended to cover part of the steadily increasing additional costs due to regulatory environmental requirements,” said Lufthansa. <a href="https://newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/en/lufthansa-group-introduces--environmental-cost-surcharge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in an announcement</a>and refers to regulations of the European Union and the International Civil Aviation Organization.</p>
<p>The additional costs shall be levied on flights departing from any of the 27 European Union member states, in addition to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, Lufthansa said. All flights sold or operated by the Lufthansa Group, which incorporates airlines similar to Lufthansa, Eurowings, Swiss and Edelweiss Air, in addition to Austrian Airlines, are subject to the fee.</p>
<p>&#8220;The amount of the surcharge varies depending on the flight route and flight price and is between 1 euro and 72 euros,&#8221; Lufthansa said. Customers can see the precise amount when booking.</p>
<p>The fee shall be charged on all tickets issued from June 26 &#8211; Wednesday of this week &#8211; for flights departing from January 1, 2025, Lufthansa said.</p>
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<p>Numerous regulations from institutions, including the EU, would increase costs for airlines, Lufthansa explained.</p>
<p>These include EU quotas for using sustainable aviation fuels. These are to return into force in 2025 and increase over time as much as 2050.</p>
<p>Sustainable aviation fuel is an alternative choice to fossil fuels and could be made out of products similar to used oils and fats, inedible plants and other waste materials. It can be produced in a process that captures carbon from the air.</p>
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<p>According to the International Air Transport Association, sustainable aviation fuel could save around <a href="https://www.iata.org/en/programs/environment/sustainable-aviation-fuels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">65% of emissions reduction</a> The aviation industry must achieve the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050.</p>
<p>Lufthansa said on Tuesday that the quotas would “lead to additional costs amounting to billions in the future.”</p>
<p>The company also pointed to the EU, Switzerland and UK emissions trading systems as an element contributing to its rising environmental costs. These programs control and limit the quantity of emissions allowed, with the general cap designed to diminish over time to scale back emissions.</p>
<p>Finally, the climate protection agreement of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which also provides for a limitation of emissions, also played a task, in line with Lufthansa.</p>
<p>Lufthansa said it was investing heavily in technologies to make aviation more sustainable and support climate research.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, the airline group will not be able to bear the gradually increasing additional costs resulting from regulatory requirements alone in the coming years. Part of these costs expected for 2025 will now be covered by the new environmental cost surcharge,&#8221; the corporate said.</p>
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		<title>Frontier Airlines is moving away from the ultra-low-cost ticket model</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 12:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Frontier Airlines, known for deeply discounted ticket prices and simple service, is adding latest fare categories that include carry-on bags, seat selection and no cancellation fees to appeal to U.S. travelers who want more upscale options on their flight. Frontier, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings Inc., now offers 4 fare and repair categories of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Frontier Airlines, known for deeply discounted ticket prices and simple service, is adding latest fare categories that include carry-on bags, seat selection and no cancellation fees to appeal to U.S. travelers who want more upscale options on their flight.</p>
<p>Frontier, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings Inc., now offers 4 fare and repair categories of Basic, Economy, Premium and Business with various advantages, the airline said in an announcement Friday.  It may even reduce change and cancellation fees for all fares all the way down to the bottom tier of basic fares, improve live telephone support for passengers, and extend the expiration time for flight credits to at least one yr.</p>
<p>Fares for the economy option start at $30 greater than the essential category, with the premium option costing at the very least $50 more and the business option costing $100 more, Frontier said.</p>
<p>Deep fare discounters have thrived for years with rapid growth and low operating costs that allowed them to generate profits from fees for extras like coffee or bottled water on flights, printed boarding passes and carry-on luggage.  Such “additional costs” often exceeded the ticket price.</p>
<p>Frontier&#39;s latest pricing options at the moment are only available on Frontier&#39;s website.  They might be added to the mobile app in the long run.  New Business and Premium categories that provide more legroom only apply to the primary two rows of Frontier aircraft.  Business fares feature the airline&#39;s UpFront Plus seating, which blocks the center seat in each of those rows.</p>
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