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Plus-size travelers bring new attention to Southwest Airlines’ ‘customer of size’ policy on TikTok

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Southwest Airlines’ longstanding “customer of size” policy is generating new chatter, thanks to viral TikTok videos and media coverage surrounding efforts to push other airlines to offer seating policies for passengers who don’t fit comfortably into today’s narrow airline seats. The policy, which Southwest says has been around for

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Sitting in a green valley over a mountainous pass, historic Shakhrisabz is filled with UNESCO-listed architectural delights

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan (CNN) — When you finally get your tongue around the name “Shakhrisabz”, with its guttural ‘kh’ in the middle, the more you say it, the more magical it becomes. Meaning “green” or “verdant” in Persian, this historic city of roughly 100,000 inhabitants lies in the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan,

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Unclaimed luggage piles up at baggage carousels at Orlando International Airport in December 2022. US airlines know there will be even more passengers flying this year but are aiming to avoid the massive Christmas headaches of 2022.

US airlines prepare to fly 2.8 million passengers a day over the long Christmas holiday

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The three biggest legacy airlines in the United States say they are gearing up for a longer and larger stretch of Christmas holiday travel while aiming for a repeat of this past Thanksgiving, which saw few flight cancelations. American Airlines, the country’s largest carrier, expects Friday, December 22, to be its busiest of

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