One way to make money is to get your planes back in the air quickly, but another way is just to torture your passengers until they give it to you directly.

For the first time in more than half a century, Americans watched astronauts blast off for the moon again Wednesday as Artemis II lifted off, a milestone for space exploration that also sparked a rare moment of national unity.

The key is to evenly distribute elderly passengers, who move more slowly, among the aircraft cabins.

They’ll only be available on the new models of planes easyJet is introducing (for aviation nerds, that’s the Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft, of which there’ll be just over 200).

Confusing calls for ‘priority boarders’ and numbered groups can make the process drag on — so it might surprise travelers to learn that there’s actually a tried and tested boarding system proven to make the process quicker.

Airlines use slower boarding methods because they help sell perks like priority boarding and seat upgrades.

Planetary alignments happen more often than you might think. Here’s why this one is special.

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the year.