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United Airlines is planning to offer passengers flight changes free of charge to avoid landing at the newly renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport in Florida, according to an internal memo that appears aimed at customers who object to the airport’s new name.

Passengers who object to landing at the airport — previously Palm Beach International Airport — may be moved to Fort Lauderdale or Miami without having to pay extra, according to an internal memo obtained by Live And Let’s Fly.

“If a customer does not want to fly to the airport, use your empowerment to offer acceptable alternatives such as Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL) or Miami International Airport (MIA),” the memo to reservation agents reads.

The memo even suggests a response to customers who object to landing at the renamed airport.

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“I understand that you’d rather not fly to this airport anymore. We can look at nearby airports like Fort Lauderdale or Miami instead. Is that an acceptable alternative?” the guidance says.

The agents are directed to process the change as an even exchange, effectively making the flight change free of charge for travelers.

Fort Lauderdale is roughly 45 miles south of West Palm Beach, while Miami is about 72 miles away, giving passengers alternative access to South Florida without stepping foot at President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

Still, agents are advised to offer an “acceptable alternative,” according to the memo, suggesting a flight change remains subject to availability and discretion permitted by the airline.

Airlines generally do not allow complimentary destination changes because a traveler objects to the person an airport was named after.

United is also expected to update its systems as the airport transitions from Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport, according to the memo. The airport’s commercial passenger code is expected to remain PBI until the IATA code changes to DJT on Aug. 18.

FOX Business has reached out to United for comment.

This comes after outraged customers flooded the airport’s online contact form with complaints after the airport was renamed last week in honor of the current president.

The airport has said the name change is required by state law and does not affect its ownership, governance or operations.

The airport had posted a message above its comments form acknowledging the name change “may be received in different ways by our passengers.”

Many customers who responded to the form were furious about the name change and the airport’s disclaimer, with several vowing to boycott the airport, according to NOTUS, which obtained the messages through a public records request.

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“It’s truly entertaining that you had to add a disclaimer to this form explaining the renaming of your airport after our racist, xenophobic, misogynistic 47th president,” one person wrote.

Another said, “Hopefully you’ll have plenty of airbags to catch the barfs from people as they drive up.”

“How do we continue to get on our knees for such a narcissistic criminal so-called president?” another wrote.

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“I am writing to assure you that as long as you are calling this airport anything closely related to ‘TRUMP’ I will NEVER FLY INTO THERE. NEVER! You have 100% lost all my family’s business. Despicable move!” another added.

While airports have been named after other presidents, including former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, Trump is the first to have an airport named after him while he is still in office.

Three years ago, Ian White was left feeling “suicidal” after the collapse of his marriage, struggling to cope with loneliness and isolation.

The 61-year-old grandfather was invited to a session at FoodCycle, a charity that brings people together through communal dining – and it has changed his life.

White now volunteers with the charity at Primrose Hill in Sheffield, helping to reduce food waste while offering a space for conversation and connection.

He said: “The other guests heard about my situation and made me feel welcome and we formed friendships. I feel wanted – it’s given me meaning in life.”

After separating from his wife, White was eating poorly and lost 8st (51kg) in weight in just one year.

A friend recommended FoodCycle and he was initially nervous about attending.

“There were lots of people I didn’t know and I’m not a confident eater in front of strangers, but I got used to it, and now I’ll eat anywhere,” he said.

Each week volunteers transform surplus food that would otherwise go to waste into three-course meals served free to anyone who wants them.

National Stock Exchange of India Ltd., the operator of the world’s largest derivatives exchange by trading volume, has received a ‘sell’ recommendation just as it gears up to launch the country’s biggest initial public offering.

Dolat Capital Market Pvt., a local brokerage house, initiated coverage on India’s largest stock exchange with a bearish call, saying tighter regulations on the country’s equity derivatives market would crimp trading volumes and lead to a decline in its market share. As such, the rich valuations that the stock currently commands leave little room for upside, it added.

Analyst recommendations on unlisted companies are uncommon in India and globally, making the call stand out ahead of the listing of its shares on a rival bourse. Indian rules don’t allow self-listing. Dolat set a target price of 1,550 rupees ($16), which is a 26% discount from its current price of 2,085 rupees in the private trading market.

Analysts led by Punit Bahlani wrote that the impact of the decline in proprietary trading volumes and the loss of market share in index options would limit the exchange’s profit and growth rates. While the brokerage said it doesn’t dispute NSE’s long-term structural growth story, it believes current valuations fail to reflect the regulatory headwinds.

Shares of NSE are down 3% over the previous 12 months, according to unlisted share-trading platform unlistedzone.com. The stock exchange currently commands a market value of 5.2 trillion rupees.

India’s derivatives market has undergone sweeping regulatory changes over the past two years to check excessive speculation in derivatives. These include increased contract sizes and restricting options contracts that settle weekly to one benchmark index per exchange.
The report highlights that NSE’s valuations in the unlisted market are higher than global peers even as its profit growth lags. Dolat is forecasting NSE’s options trading turnover to decline at an annualised rate of about 4% between fiscal 2026 and 2029 as tighter regulations, lower retail participation and a weaker market cycle weigh on activity. In the same note, the brokerage also initiated coverage on listed peers BSE Ltd. and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. with sell ratings.

The report comes weeks after NSE filed for an estimated $3 billion IPO and targets a September listing, subject to approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

Unlike most unlisted companies, NSE is extensively followed by analysts because its disclosure standards and quarterly financial reporting are broadly comparable with listed peers. The exchange also conducts earnings calls and its shares are actively traded in India’s unlisted market, where price movements and transfer data are disclosed periodically.

(Disclaimer: Recommendations, suggestions, views and opinions given by the experts are their own. These do not represent the views of The Economic Times)

Shares of SpaceX briefly traded below their IPO price on Wednesday, a first for the stock just over a month after going public.

Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of Global Fixed Income platform, a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee and Chairman of the BlackRock firm-wide Investment Council. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Rieder is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. He was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013 and nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014.   From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm’s Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm’s credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.   Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory’s Business School, and the University’s Investment Committee and is the Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the business school’s BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.   Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman of the Board of North Star Academy’s eleven Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. He is a Trustee for the U.S. Olympic Committee and is on the board of advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery. He serves on the National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation and on the board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.

Kris Jenner is mourning the death of her mother, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon, a beloved fixture of the Kardashian-Jenner family’s reality television empire who died Thursday at the age of 91.

Jenner announced her mother’s death in an emotional Instagram post Thursday morning, sharing a photo of Shannon alongside a lengthy tribute. “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” Jenner wrote. “There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye. My mom was the heart of our family. She taught me everything that truly matters … to love your family fiercely, to be kind, to show up for the people you love, and to never take a single moment together for granted.”

Jenner, 70, continued her tribute by reflecting on the values her mother instilled in the family across generations. “She taught us that family is everything. She showed us how to love unconditionally and how to find joy in the little moments,” Jenner wrote. “She showed me how to face life’s challenges with resilience and faith. Mom, thank you for every sacrifice you made, every piece of wisdom you shared, and every moment you loved us so completely.”

The post continued with Jenner describing how deeply her mother had shaped both her and her own children and grandchildren. “When I look at my kids and my grandkids, I will forever see pieces of you in all of us. There is not a part of me that isn’t shaped by you,” Jenner wrote. “And if I have done anything right in this world, it’s because I spent my life trying to live in a way that would make you proud.” She closed the tribute by writing that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” and thanking her mother for giving her “the greatest childhood.”

Shannon was widely known to fans of the family’s reality television franchise, having made frequent appearances across both “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” on E! and its Hulu successor, “The Kardashians.” She was the grandmother to Jenner’s six children — Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Rob Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner — and was affectionately known to viewers simply as “MJ.” Following news of her death, several members of the family shared their own tributes on social media, including Kim Kardashian, who posted a message mourning her grandmother and expressing hope that she was now at peace.

Shannon’s life included both personal loss and resilience in the years before her death. Her younger daughter and Jenner’s sister, Karen Houghton, died unexpectedly in 2024, a loss that Jenner has said weighed heavily on her mother in the time since. During a 2025 episode of “The Kardashians,” Jenner grew emotional discussing her mother’s wellbeing in the aftermath of Houghton’s death, saying she recognized her mother had been struggling and that she felt a responsibility to be there for her. In that same episode, Shannon revealed she had been dealing with significant physical pain that had kept her out of her own kitchen for two days, prompting an emotional response from Jenner, who said it upset her to see her mother in so much discomfort. Shannon was also a two-time cancer survivor, having previously battled both breast and colon cancer.

Shannon was married three times over the course of her life. Her first marriage lasted only a matter of months. She later married Robert Houghton, an engineer, with whom she had Jenner and Karen Houghton; that marriage ended when Jenner was seven years old. Shannon went on to marry businessman Harry Shannon, who became a father figure to both Jenner and her sister and remained married to MJ for roughly four decades until his death in a 2003 car accident. Jenner has said Harry Shannon’s death, which came after he contracted a staph infection while hospitalized following the crash, was devastating for the family.

Before the Kardashian-Jenner family built its retail and clothing ventures, including the Calabasas boutique Dash, MJ ran her own children’s clothing store, Shannon & Company, which she opened in San Diego in 1980. Jenner has spoken previously about growing up around the shop and eventually helping run the business as a young woman, particularly during the period when Harry Shannon was hospitalized following his accident. In a 2015 interview with Haute Living, Jenner recalled that her mother had wanted to close the store during that difficult stretch, but that she insisted on running it herself despite the strain of commuting to keep it going. MJ herself later reflected on those early days of the shop in a 2012 interview with the Daily Beast, recalling a young Kim Kardashian sitting on the store floor counting money and singing a playful made-up rhyme about counting cash.

Shannon’s warmth and candor made her a favorite among longtime viewers of the family’s various reality shows, where she was known for heart-to-heart conversations with Jenner and warm relationships with other members of the extended family, including Kourtney Kardashian’s longtime partner and father of three of her children, Scott Disick. Her appearances often provided some of the franchise’s more grounded, emotionally resonant moments across its nearly two-decade run.

News of Shannon’s death drew an outpouring of tributes from fans of the family alongside the statements from Jenner and her children, with many recalling MJ’s frequent television appearances and her reputation as a warm, resilient matriarch who remained closely involved in the family’s life well into her nineties. Funeral and memorial arrangements had not been publicly announced as of Thursday afternoon, and the family has not released additional details regarding the circumstances of her death.