By Maureen O’Hare, CNN

(CNN) — This week’s Unlocking the World newsletter is all about air travel: the world’s busiest and best-rated airports, the most innovative new seat designs, and the most ambitious upcoming flight routes.

Project Sunrise

Australian airline Qantas Airways’ much-talked-about Project Sunrise will see a fleet of 12 Airbus A350-1000ULRs take on record-breaking 22-hour flights from Sydney to London and New York.

Newly released pictures show that the very first plane of the ultra-long-range crack team has rolled off the final assembly line in Toulouse, France. Now complete with high-thrust Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines, it’s primed to undergo ground tests ahead of the expected launch of commercial flights in 2027. The first photos of the Qantas planes came out late last year.

To make passengers more comfortable on those marathon nonstop routes, the fleet will have spacious, ergonomically designed cabins with a seat count of just 238, compared to the standard 400 on other A350-1000s.

More than 40% of seats will be in premium cabins, with the top-class amenities including flat-bed suites and full-length wardrobes, and a Wellbeing Zone in the center of the plane will allow travelers to stretch their legs and stock up on refreshments for the long hours ahead.

Double-level airplane seat

Could you handle 22 hours, or even two, in double-level airplane seating?

The Chaise Longue seat concept by 26-year-old designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente has sparked intense social media debate in the years since it premiered in 2020, but its makers say the latest version of the design is the “ultimate, final statement.”

CNN got an exclusive first peek at the new two-tier design. Take a look here to see if the spacing constraints might have you in tears too.

No airlines or aviation companies have committed yet to producing the Chaise Longue concept, but fans of multi-level flying don’t have long to wait for another new cabin innovation.

Bookings open May 18 for Air New Zealand’s Economy Skynest bunk beds, with each individual space coming with a mattress and bedding, a privacy curtain, reading light and charging ports. Customers can book a space for four hours at a time on select new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flights starting in November, priced at $495 per session.

World’s best, and busiest, airports

Singapore’s Changi International Airport, with its indoor waterfall, rooftop swimming pool, 10-story retail complex and giant slide, was — for an incredible 14th time – named the best airport in the world last month by air transport rating organization Skytrax.

Tokyo Narita International took the Skytrax Award for Best Airport Staff, while across the city, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport took the award for the Cleanest Airport for 2026.

Haneda managed that impressive feat while also being the world’s third busiest airport, handling 91.7 million dirt-generating passengers in 2025, according to new figures from Airports Council International.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was once again the world’s busiest airport, dealing with 106.3 million passengers last year.

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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Thomas Bordeaux, Allison Gordon, Kyung Lah, CNN

(CNN) — Months after a young girl’s body was found in the trunk of his abandoned car, singer d4vd was arrested not far from the Los Angeles tow yard where her remains were discovered.

Prosecutors say they will now weigh whether to bring criminal charges against the 21-year-old alt-pop artist, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Why it has taken so long for investigators to make an arrest in the case is unclear.

Rivas and d4vd had been linked to each other in several ways before the girl’s family reported her missing in 2024. But authorities had not publicly named d4vd as a suspect until after a squad of local and federal officers battered down the door of a Hollywood Hills home Thursday and took him away.

The singer’s attorneys pointed out an indictment or criminal complaint have yet to be filed.

“Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,” defense attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter said in a statement.

Here is a timeline of d4vd’s connection to Rivas, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and death, and what we know about the investigation so far.

Early 2024: Rivas’ links to d4vd

Signs of Rivas’ connection to d4vd began to surface before she was reported missing.

In January 2024, Rivas appears side by side with the singer in a livestream video on the social media platform Twitch. In it, the pair joke and banter until about 3 a.m. before d4vd laughingly proclaims, “Delete everything.”

Sometime between January and March 2024, d4vd is photographed getting out of a black Tesla a few blocks from Rivas’ home. A local teen in Lake Elsinore later posts the photos on TikTok. CNN geolocated and chronolocated the photos to verify when and where they were taken.

Early 2024: Rivas reported missing

Rivas is reported missing three times in early 2024 as loved ones and friends worry over the seventh grader’s well-being and whereabouts.

Rivas is 13 years old when she is first reported missing in mid-February 2024, according to 911 call logs and missing posters. A poster from this time says she was last seen around February 14.

Around this time, a person concerned about her well-being sends an email to an address bearing d4vd’s name on his record company’s domain.

The writer references Rivas’ disappearance and says, “There’s been talk” that d4vd possibly had something to do with it. If there was any truth to that, the person writes, “please do the right thing and take her home. Her parents are very worried.”

CNN confirmed the authenticity of the email with the person who sent it. But that person asked not to be identified due to safety concerns.

Rivas returns home within days of that email being sent, an acquaintance of the family confirmed to CNN.

Rivas is reported missing a second time around March 19, according to 911 logs and missing posters.

For a third and final time, she is reported missing on April 5, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.

Mid 2024 – early 2025: Photos capture Rivas alive

It is unclear when Rivas is killed, but photos indicate she is still alive almost a year after she was first reported missing. Authorities said in court documents she was 14 when she died, according to The Associated Press.

In June 2024, Rivas is photographed backstage during a sold-out show d4vd performed at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.

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By Arit John, CNN

(CNN) — In a midterm election that will likely be decided by how voters feel about the economy, Republicans are grappling with how to discuss the war in Iran and its impact on fuel costs.

Republicans had spent the weeks before the war touting lower prices under President Donald Trump. Now, with the national average for gas rising above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 and Trump’s economic approval ratings hitting a record low, Democrats are seeking to tie the war to their broader affordability message, arguing that Republicans are more focused on foreign affairs than reducing costs at home.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ campaign arm, started running digital ads last month in all of their 44 target districts blaming congressional Republicans for higher gas prices.

Some Democratic candidates like Janelle Stelson, who is seeking a rematch against Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, have taken their message directly to the voters at gas stations in the districts they seek to represent.

“We should be spending money at home, not $1 billion a day for a war in Iran,” Stelson told CNN in an interview. “Meantime, you have everybody here in central Pennsylvania saying, ‘Look at me. I need help. I could use a little, teeny piece of that money.’”

(The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, DC-based think tank, has estimated the war costs more than $890 million a day.)

Perry’s campaign did not respond to requests from CNN. But the congressman told City & State Pennsylvania that he hoped to see gas prices fall soon.

“Like so many citizens across our region and nation, I want gas prices to come down, and I understand firsthand the strain these high prices put on families,” Perry said in a statement to the outlet. “It’s everyone’s goal that resolution will be brought to the War in Iran soon, so we can be rid of the threat of a nuclear Iran and energy prices can return to pre-war levels.”

Oil prices dropped Friday after Trump and Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial vessels for the remainder of the ceasefire between the two nations.

“I think a lot of Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief that this episode is winding down,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist. “Trump was elected to tame inflation and create jobs, and if he can show progress on that before the midterms, Republicans will be in much better shape.”

Republicans have argued that higher gas prices are temporary – even though gas prices tend to shoot up quickly when oil becomes more expensive and take longer to fall when oil prices decline. Analysts say that high gas prices will linger even after the military conflict ends.

The House GOP’s campaign arm also points to policies like tax breaks on tips that it says have boosted incomes.

“After years of Democrats’ reckless policies that drove up costs to record levels, voters see the difference and trust Republicans to keep the economy moving in the right direction,” Mike Marinella, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congr

Análisis por David Goldman, CNN

En un acontecimiento sumamente prometedor para la guerra en Medio Oriente y la economía mundial, Irán acordó reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz.

Por ahora, al menos.

Si la guerra realmente está terminando, la pregunta lógica para cualquiera que haya llenado el tanque de gasolina en el último mes es: ¿Cuándo volverán los precios a ser los que eran antes de la guerra?

No en un futuro próximo. Casi con toda seguridad no este año. Quizás nunca.

Antes de lograrlo, tendrían que suceder muchas cosas, y alcanzar una paz duradera con un país al que Estados Unidos e Israel bombardearon durante semanas es solo el comienzo.

“No esperen que los precios vuelvan a ser los de antes de la guerra”, declaró Joe Brusuelas, economista jefe de RSM US, a CNN.

Suponiendo que el estrecho se haya reabierto realmente, está a punto de desatarse una pesadilla logística.

Primer paso: Eliminar los cuellos de botella del estrecho. Eso va a llevar mucho tiempo, ya que los buques cisterna se mueven casi tan rápido como se puede ir en bicicleta.

En primer lugar, los aproximadamente 128 buques cisterna atrapados en el estrecho, que transportan alrededor de 160 millones de barriles de petróleo, según Capital Economics, deben zarpar. Esto permitirá que los buques cisterna vacíos entren al estrecho, carguen y regresen.

Según Victoria Grabenwöger, analista sénior de petróleo de Kpler, la recuperación de la plena capacidad de tránsito de los buques cisterna podría tardar hasta tres meses.

Segundo paso: Reducir las reservas. Los barcos vacíos primero extraerán el petróleo de los almacenes que se han llenado, porque los productores no tenían dónde más guardarlo.

La buena noticia es que las refinerías fueron pragmáticas con sus reservas y nunca las llenaron por completo. Esto debería reducir el tiempo que, de otro modo, se necesitaría para reactivar las bombas. Sin embargo, unos inventarios superiores a lo habitual retrasarán la recuperación de la producción de petróleo a su plena capacidad.

Tercer paso: Reiniciar la producción. Los pozos petrolíferos de Medio Oriente estuvieron prácticamente paralizados durante la guerra. Poner en marcha la producción no es tan sencillo como pulsar un interruptor. Se trata de un complejo desafío de ingeniería que implica principios físicos avanzados y un trabajo que puede durar varias semanas.

Será necesario reiniciar la producción, lentamente, para evitar el colapso de los yacimientos de crudo, lo que requeriría perforaciones adicionales y reparaciones importantes. Es preciso reequilibrar el agua y el gas inyectados en los pozos, lo cual es una tarea compleja.

Debido a que los pozos de la región son grandes y están muy cerca unos de otros, reiniciar la producción requerirá una importante coordinación entre empresas y países para garantizar que la presión del agua y del gas inyectados se mantenga constante en todos los pozos.

Cuarto paso: Realizar reparaciones. Varias refinerías, productores de gas natural y algunos productores de petróleo sufrieron daños durante la guerra. Según las compañías, algunas reparaciones de la infraestructura crítica dañada podrían tardar años en completarse.

Hay mucho procesos que hay que volver a poner en marcha: la producción de crudo, que asciende a 12 millones de barriles diarios, y la de productos petrolíferos refinados, que ascienden a 3 millones de barriles, se han suspendido en todo Medio Oriente, principalmente en Arabia Saudita e Irak, según Kpler. No es tarea fácil.

Todo esto presumiendo que la guerra ha terminado y que no habrá más perturbaciones en el estrecho. Y todos sabemos lo que sucede cuando se da algo por sentado…

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By Andy Rose, CNN

(CNN) — In a city that has been targeted for aggressive immigration enforcement, it was a compelling story.

A US citizen of Pakistani descent, Sundas Naqvi, said she was returning to the US from an overseas work trip when she and five coworkers were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Her story got the attention of a family friend, Cook County commissioner Kevin Morrison.

“It sounds like they are trying to create a cover-up. They are seeking not to have any accountability whatsoever. And I think this is terrifying and concerning to us all,” Morrison said in a news conference on March 8.

Morrison showed what appeared to be screenshots of time-stamped location maps with Naqvi’s phone showing her at Broadview Detention Center in Chicago and later at the Dodge County detention center in Wisconsin, where Naqvi said she was taken before being tossed out on the street without transportation after a 43-hour ordeal.

The story relayed through Naqvi’s friends and family, alleging more than 150 miles of travel in federal custody, effectively incommunicado, was astonishing enough. But there were many more twists to come over the course of a month of new revelations.

The Department of Homeland Security quickly denied Naqvi was taken into custody at the airport. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt went further, saying not only part of Naqvi’s story is false, but all of it.

“Sundas Naqvi was not detained by ICE at any time. She was not transported to Broadview detention facility. She was not transported across state lines to Dodge County by law enforcement… She was not in the custody of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office,” Schmidt said in his own news conference on April 10.

The questions about Naqvi’s story started when her then-boyfriend, suspicious after her claims of ICE detention started going viral, called law enforcement, Schmidt said, resulting in a cascade of private text messages and surveillance videos obtained by his office showing a very different timeline.

Naqvi, who is 28 and also goes by Sunny and Summer, according to public records, is not being charged with any crime, but the sheriff says she defamed him by claiming his office kept her behind bars, and now he’s suing her and the politician who illuminated her story in a million-dollar defamation case.

“This is a serious accusation, and when it is not true, it does real damage,” said Schmidt.

DHS says Naqvi was pulled aside at airport, but briefly

The Department of Homeland Security confirms Naqvi was pulled aside for a secondary screening on March 5 after returning from a trip to Turkey “based on law enforcement checks.” But the story diverges dramatically from Naqvi’s account after that.

“Surveillance footage from O’Hare CLEARLY shows her entering secondary inspection at 10:46 a.m., and leaving secondary to the public area at 11:42 a.m.,” DHS wrote in an X post six days later. “Her claims of spending 43 hours in DHS custody are FALSE.”

Morrison initially accused the DHS of falsifying the post.

“Instead of releasing a clearly doctored photo, I call on DHS to release all of the relevant video at O’Hare Airport at the days and times in question,” Morrison said in a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The commissioner – who was also a candidate for Congress at the time – said he considered the cell phone location maps conclusive.

“I spoke with her around 1:30 on Friday (March 6), and then about