Titanic exhibition coming to museum
Titanic exhibition coming to museum
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — An exhibition focused on the Titanic is coming to Henry Ford Museum as the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking approaches.
The museum will host “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” from March 31 through Sept. 31. The touring exhibition includes more than 300 artifacts. Visitors to the museum in Dearborn also will learn about passengers on board the ship who had ties to Michigan.
On April 14, a special “Titanic Remembered” anniversary event at the museum will include champagne, dinner and access to the exhibition.
The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, while making its maiden voyage. More than 1,500 passengers and crew died.
Henry Ford Museum is part of The Henry Ford, a history attraction. Exhibition details are on The Henry Ford website.
Cars Land headlines Disneyland expansion
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Lightning McQueen and friends are about to get the green light at Disneyland.
The park announced Wednesday that Cars Land, based on the Disney-Pixar “Cars” movies, is the headliner of four new attractions opening June 15 at Disney California Adventure Park after a five-year expansion.
Cars Land will be 12 acres of rides, shops and restaurants based on the movie’s town of Radiator Springs. Along with rides based on “A Bug’s Life,” Monsters, Inc.” and “Toy Story,” it further cements California Adventure as the Pixar park.
Man gets prison for
dropping cruise anchor
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A California businessman has been sentenced to four months incarceration and three years of probation for a drunken prank while aboard a Holland America cruise ship.
U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday also on Tuesday ordered 45-year-old Rick Ehlert to pay a $7,500 fine and to participate in substance abuse and mental health counseling.
The Thousand Oaks, Calif., man pleaded guilty last year to bringing the MS Ryndam to a halting stop when he dropped the 18-ton stern anchor on the MS Ryndam after a night of drinking. The ship was traveling at 18 knots as it returned to Tampa from Mexico on Nov. 27, 2010. The prank delayed the ship by three hours.
FAA forecast: High air fares all decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday.
In its annual economic analysis, the Federal Aviation Administration predicted that more airline mergers and consolidation will shrink the number of cities served and the number of flights available in the nation’s air travel network. Travelers won’t get much relief until airlines start getting more competition, which is years off.
The combination of modestly increasing demand and shrinking capacity in the near term means that planes, already more than 80 percent full, will get even slightly more full and remain that way for the next 20 years, the agency said.
Last month, Southwest, JetBlue, United, Delta, American and US Airways raised prices on many medium-length and long flights by $10 per round trip, citing the high cost of jet fuel.