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Travellers flock to one-way flights as price premium dwindles

Bloomberg Travellers are purchasing more one-way flights as the price premium declines compared with round trips, according to Airlines Reporting Corp., which analyzes fare data. One-way jaunts have expanded to 42 percent of air travel so far this year, up from 29 percent three years ago, ARC said. The price drop is especially pronounced on leisure routes, with corporate travel ...

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Amazon food ambitions spur stock to best IPO return

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc.’s deal to buy Whole Foods Markets Inc. was a catastrophe for countless stocks, as concern about market disruption wreaked havoc on retailers and REITs. But for holders of a newly listed technology stock, it’s adding fuel to an already-stellar run. Impinj Inc., whose so-called radio-frequency identification technology allows users to tag and track data on products, is ...

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Abu Dhabi world’s second best city to live, work

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi has been named the second-best city in the world to live, work and do business in, overtaking both London and Paris and moving up two places since the last Ipsos City Index. More than 18,000 people, aged between 16 and 64, in 26 countries worldwide were interviewed for the Index, with New York maintaining ...

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