WASHINGTON—U.S. aviation regulators are forecasting nearly 313,000 flights over the seven-day Memorial Day holiday period, up 4.5 percent from 2022 and just below 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the traditional seven-day kickoff to the busy U.S. summer travel season will surpass the 299,500 flights flown in the same period in 2022…

DUBLIN—Ryanair flew 16 million passengers in April, up 13 percent year-on-year to record its third busiest month for traffic ever, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said on Wednesday. The average proportion of empty seats per flight for the period—which included the Easter holidays—fell to 6 percent. The airline also cancelled more than 650 flights,…

Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the event with a radically different jumping technique that was eventually named after him, died on Sunday aged 76, his agent Ray Schulte said on Monday. Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he jumped back first to…

This film is only available in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Mexico, Ireland, Canada, and Australia because of territorial licensing. Follow this adventurer’s journey from the world’s highest mountains to one of the most dangerous sports—and the dramatic turn of events leading up to his final jump. …

The chief executive of Robinhood Markets Inc. on Wednesday dismissed the idea that the company might be acquired after it announced job cuts as it tries to reduce costs and reverse a decline in trading on its platform. Robinhood shares closed up nearly 12 percent on Wednesday, following a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and the announcement…

At 103 years and 259 days old, a Swedish woman has fulfilled her dream and broken a world record in the process by becoming the oldest woman to tandem parachute jump from a plane. Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson scripted history by becoming the world’s oldest female parachutist since free-falling in Motala, Sweden, on May 29…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a cruise ship early Saturday as it approached Florida. The man jumped from the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Mardi Gras just after midnight about 55 miles east of Port Canaveral, according to the Coast Guard and Carnival. The Coast Guard responded…

Credit card company American Express said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profits rose 20 percent from a year earlier, as eager consumers spent record levels of money during the holiday season on the company’s namesake cards. AmEx posted a profit of $1.72 billion, or $2.18 a share, up from $1.44 billion, or $1.76 a share, a…

Volkswagen Group’s global electric vehicle deliveries nearly doubled last year helped by sales of its ID.4 electric sports utility vehicle and the legacy automaker said it expects the first half of 2022 to be highly volatile due to chip shortages. What Happened The German automaker said it delivered 263,000 all-electric vehicles to customers last year,…

MILAN—Italian luxury group Brunello Cucinelli posted on Monday a 31 percent increase in 2021 revenue at current exchange rates, in line with its latest guidance and a touch above market expectations, after the pandemic triggered a 10 percent drop in 2020. Last month the fashion house raised its 2021 sales guidance for the fourth time…