New Congressional Spending Deal Would Boost Spending Levels Compared To Pre-Pandemic Budget Arjun Singh on January 9, 2024 The bipartisan spending deal negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen Group deliveries rose 12% to 9.24 million vehicles in 2023, it said on Tuesday, indicating a post-pandemic sales recovery as supply chain bottlenecks eased. The carmaker’s…
By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sales of coffee at grocery stores in the United States, the world’s largest consumer of the beverage, fell to below pre-pandemic levels in…
NEW YORK – U.S. restaurant employment in September finally matched pre-pandemic numbers, marking the first time in over three years, according to a report unveiled on Friday. This suggests a…
WASHINGTON, DC – Traffic deaths in the U.S. decreased by 3.3% in the first half of this year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The decline is…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Capital A Berhad, parent of Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, expects to see the carrier’s operations returning to pre-pandemic levels by December, Capital A CEO Tony Fernandes told Reuters…
By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai’s main airport registered a 55.8% increase in passenger traffic in the first quarter of this year compared to last year, reaching 95.6% of 2019 pre-pandemic levels,…
(Reuters) – Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation is showing signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality in the U.S. after two years of irregular onsets and peaks, the Centers for Disease…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech industrial output returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, growing 1.7%, data showed, mainly due to car production, which is likely to struggle this year from supply-chain…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. imports of goods in ocean shipping containers in December fell to levels approaching those last seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report said on…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair flew 11.5 million passengers in December, up 3% on its previous pre-COVID high for the Christmas travel period, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said on…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department said vehicle travel rose by 0.1% in October to 285.9 billion miles as road travel is nearing pre-pandemic levels for the year. In…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Tuesday the group is on track to achieve target of operating up to one-third of pre-pandemic passenger flight…
(Reuters) -Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Monday it expected to operate 70% of its pre-pandemic passenger flight capacity by the end of 2023, up from a planned…
PARIS (Reuters) – The aircraft services market will recover to its pre-pandemic level by the end of 2023 and double in value over the next 20 years, Airbus said on…
(Reuters) – Short-term rental accommodation booked online in the European Union increased above 2019 levels each month from February 2022 onwards, the European Union’s statistic office said on Tuesday. Short-stays…
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s office market rebounded in the third quarter from a year earlier, though leasing remained below levels seen before the rise…
By Isabel Kua and Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Global aviation fuel demand is expected to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels of 300 million tonnes per year in the next one…
(Refiles to add dropped letter in CEO’s name) By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Asian tourists are only expected to resume international travel at pre-pandemic levels gradually, by 2024, the…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese land prices rose in the 12 months to July 1 for the first time since before the pandemic, thanks to easing of measures…
By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sales by branded coffee shops in the United States increased 10% in the 12 months to June 2022 to reach $45.8 billion, a…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Monday that flight prices will never return to where they were before the pandemic, forecasting stable or increasing prices in…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s economy is forecast to finally claw its way back to pre-pandemic levels sometime next year, ratings agency Fitch Ratings said on Friday, after COVID-19 ground…
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people traveling for the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels and possibly set new…