JetBlue urges flight attendants to accept assignments as it races to hire 700 people by summer

JetBlue planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Leslie Josephs | CNBC JetBlue Airways on Friday urged patience from its flight attendants as it races to hire hundreds of new employees before what it expects to be a monster travel season this spring and summer. “Please do not refuse an assignment you are…

FAA will keep ‘zero tolerance’ policy toward unruly passengers, outgoing chief says

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson prepares to testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on “Implementation of Aviation Safety Reform” on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson said Friday that the agency’s “zero tolerance” policy toward unruly passengers will continue,…

BP establishes partnership focused on offshore wind in Japan   

In this article 8002.T-JP BP.-GB An offshore wind turbine photographed in waters off the coast of Japan on October 4, 2013. Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP | Getty Images BP has agreed to establish a strategic partnership with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni that will focus on offshore wind development and potentially look at “other decarbonisation projects, including…

History shows investors should stick to profitable companies if Fed tightens inflation action, Jim Cramer says

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday advised investors to invest in profitable companies if the Federal Reserve institutes a half-point double rate hike, using an analysis of the Fed’s last double rate hike and its aftermath in 2000. “We know what works when the Fed tightens aggressively. The lesson of 2000 is to stick with profitable…

Britain’s P&O Ferries broke the law in laying off 800 staff, boss admits

Three P&O Ferries, Spirit of Britain, Pride of Canterbury and Pride of Kent moor up in the cruise terminal at the Port of Dover in Kent as the company has suspended sailings ahead of a “major announcement” but insisted it is “not going into liquidation.” Gareth Fuller | PA Images | Getty Images The boss…

Why don’t kids get Covid badly? Scientists are unraveling one of the pandemic’s biggest mysteries

A child reacts while receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Smoketown Family Wellness Center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., November 8, 2021. Jon Cherry | Reuters LONDON — One of the enduring mysteries of the Covid-19 pandemic, a global health crisis that has led to over 6 million fatalities, is that…

Jim Cramer tells investors to ‘stay the course’ as markets continue to shake

CNBC’s Jim Cramer told investors that they shouldn’t lose faith in the market’s ability to recover after Wednesday’s declines. “History is very clear: It says you must stay the course. The S&P 500’s already had a successful 50% retracement of its huge decline, and in the 21 times that’s happened since the Great Depression, it’s…

Petco CEO says company’s growth is inflation-proof, as Americans splurge on pets and bigger homes

A customer exits a Petco store in Clark, New Jersey. Ron Antonelli | Bloomberg | Getty Images Petco CEO Ron Coughlin on Wednesday said the specialty retailer has a key advantage in an uncertain environment: Americans spend on pets, even when their budgets tighten. At an investor day in New York City, he said the…

Charts suggest corn and wheat futures could continue to rise due to Russia-Ukraine war, Cramer says

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said corn and wheat prices could continue to rise due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leaning on analysis from Carley Garner, senior commodity market strategist at DeCarley Trading. “The charts, as interpreted by Carley Garner, suggest that both wheat and corn prices are headed higher here. Maybe much higher. And…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink satellite internet dishes to Ukraine, company’s president says

A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite antennas, also known as terminals, arriving in Ukraine. Fedorov Mykhailo on Twitter WASHINGTON – SpaceX has sent “thousands” of Starlink satellite internet kits to Ukraine, company President Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC on Tuesday. Elon Musk’s space company began sending Ukraine shipments of Starlink satellite kits – which come with…

Britain’s Royal Mint to build plant that will extract gold from electronic waste

Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s Royal Mint plans to build a facility that will extract gold from electronic waste, with the plant set to be fully up and running in 2023. In a statement Monday, the government-owned company which manufactures precious metal products and coins said it would use…