What's crazy here is, some of the worst airlines in losing luggage are all part of the same company:

🇮🇪 Aer Lingus
🇬🇧 British Airways
🇪🇸 Iberia
🇪🇸 Vueling

Are all owned by International Airlines Group

Which in turn is 25% owned by Qatar Airways

But...Qatar…

So Austin has absolutely giant flying ants with wings?!

🇩🇪 Lufthansa bought 🇨🇭Swiss Air in 2005

They've destroyed its famous "Swiss Quality" by intergrating it into their organization

Now Switzerland is #5 worst in losing your luggage

Quoting Yamin | 🇨🇭🇲🇾 Relocation & Investment Advisory (@yaminfouzi)

@levelsio…

🇩🇪 Lufthansa bought 🇨🇭Swiss Air in 2005

They've destroyed its famous "Swiss Quality" by intergrating it into their organization

Now Switzerland is #5 worst in losing your luggage

Swiss people should take it back!

Quoting Yamin | 🇨🇭🇲🇾 Relocation & Investment…

One thing I realized is that indoor places in Austin (and I guess US?) are LOUD af

Easily hit 80dB for a regular coffee place or resto

Which is why it makes complete sense Americans are always talking so loud when they travel, it's what they're used to…

One thing I realized is that indoor places in Austin (and I guess US?) are LOUD af

Easily hit 80dB for a regular coffee place or restock

Which is why it makes complete sense Americans are always talking so loud when they travel, it's what they're used…

chat is this true?

Quoting Adam Wright (@adamdenverco)

@levelsio They’re loud if a reason…

Thank you jQuery

The problem with stock markets outside the West is that most of the big important companies are owned privately and cannot be traded publicly

Asia has massive "chaebols", or rich family-owned giant companies who control large parts of their economy, often…

Are public markets where anyone can invest and vote in companies the reason for US wealth?

Is companies mostly being private everywhere else the reason why they're not as wealthy?

Any data on this?

Quoting Michael Bacarella (@mbacarella)

@levelsio some…

Murders in 🇲🇽 Tulum now on a monthly basis and also of foreigners and digital nomads

Hard to promote the "Tulum nomad community" when you risk literally getting shot through the head by drug lords

And it's a tiny town, just 50,000 ppl, insane murder rate…

The very cool @BrilliantMaps made a visual map of Luggage Losers data and put it on /r/dataisbeautiful now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1dsrupw/where_airlines_are_most_likely_to_lose_your/

Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

🗞️ Press coverage…

Any travel luggage insurance site I can link to and get % of $$$ for signups?

Would be nice to monetize 🧳💨 Luggage Losers on day 2

Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

The very cool @BrilliantMaps made a visual map of Luggage Losers data and put it on /r/dataisbeautiful…

The rise and fall of 🇵🇹 Lisbon (2020-2024)

Lisbon arrivals have now returned to the levels of 4 years ago, just before it started to explode and suddenly get popular with foreigners and tourists alike

Why? The government stopped the NHR program (to attract…

Austin house prices are falling

Because they immediately started building a massive amount of new homes

That's how an efficient real estate market is supposed to function

More people -> more houses

NIMBY = bad

Quoting Anton Panasenko (@apanasenko)
…

Today @Wise CTO's @harshsinha invited me to their Austin, TX office

Wise moved here in 2022 when 🇺🇸 Austin became popular

They've created jobs for lots of people here and Austin is a good example of a place attracting people and companies from outside and…

This photo was taken in 1997 at the Great Wall of China. It shows Jack Ma (the founder of Alibaba) and Jerry Yang (the founder of Yahoo)

Two years before the picture was taken, in 1995, Jerry Yang had founded Yahoo and had become an internet sensation around…

I feel @arrington should buy back TechCrunch for $1 and make it great again

Quoting Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ (@arrington)

Hey @Cookie if you’re open to it we should have a conversation.

I feel @arrington should buy TechCrunch back for $1 and make it great again

Quoting Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ (@arrington)

Hey @Cookie if you’re open to it we should have a conversation.

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Most honest I've ever seen a Western CEO talk about China's rise and maybe a cultural moment where the narrative finally flips

Before: xenophobic political human rights spying arguments

Now: yeah they're extremely competitive right now and we can't lag…