With the possibility of lounges, Southwest is betting that it can capture more premium customers and boost engagement with its loyalty program. Read more ›
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United CEO Scott Kirby said he still believes a merger with American would be beneficial but that the Fort Worth carrier’s management is the main obstacle. Read more ›
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Cendant existed for under nine years and left behind the financial architecture that almost all of modern travel still runs on. Read more ›
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United CEO Scott Kirby is sounding the alarm on engine shortages and exclusivity agreements as the carrier is embroiled in a dispute with Rolls Royce. Read more ›
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For years, Turkish Airlines said it could thrive without premium economy. Now, one of aviation’s most notable holdouts is preparing to join the club. Read more ›
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The CEO of Air New Zealand has pushed back on suggestions that the airline’s headline-grabbing premium products are difficult to justify at a time of mounting losses and cost cuts. “These projects for us, they’re not vanity projects, they’re existential,” Nikhil Ravishankar told Skift on the sidelines of the IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio […] Read more ›
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While it's not clear the World Cup's tourism impact will live up to the hype, federal data shows the hospitality sector is staffing up ahead of the tournament. Read more ›
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We heard from more than two dozen of travel's most important tech leaders — the people actually deploying AI solutions every day. Here's what the industry still needs to get right. Read more ›
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With Brevistay, Ixigo closes the last major gap in its travel stack. Its twin bets on AI infrastructure hint at a larger goal of keeping trip planning inside its ecosystem, rather than letting it migrate to ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Raising taxes is easy — actually reducing visitor numbers is the problem Amsterdam hasn't solved. Read more ›
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Connectivity has become a foundational layer of the travel experience. As the smartphone becomes the control point for travel, reliable connection is becoming less about convenience and more about trust. Read more ›
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Travel is the only major industry getting hit from both directions at once: AI search volumes are exploding without converting while total AI token bills internally are rising. Read more ›
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CEO Sébastien Bazin said an Ennismore IPO is "one of four or five" possible fates for the lifestyle joint venture. In M&A-speak, that means Accor's board hasn't decided yet. Read more ›
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The electric and hybrid plane dream is alive, but the funding model that gets it there still needs to be figured out. Read more ›
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First-timers spend more per trip. Repeat visitors spend less. But the math still favors loyalty. Read more ›
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India's two biggest airlines spent the last few years expanding aggressively abroad. IndiGo leased wide-body aircraft for the first time. Air India was looking to rebuild into a world-class global carrier. Both are now in retreat, at least temporarily, from some of those ambitions. Read more ›
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Is Brian Chesky development of a new AI Lab outside of Airbnb an acknowledgement that building AI capabilities within Airbnb hasn't been up to par? Or are some tech developments like AI too large to sit out without having more skin in the game? Read more ›
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World Cup host cities were promised a once-in-a-generation tourism surge. The lift is real, but some cities’ results are well below expectations. Read more ›
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AI can't sell what hotel systems can't see. Until room-level data, guest behavior, and service pricing live in one connected system, the industry's AI gains will stay stuck on the cost efficiency side of the ledger. Read more ›
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Canada's three winter sun standbys — the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico — are all in trouble at the same time. The Caribbean has never had a better opening. Most destinations are not ready to walk through it. Read more ›
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Delta is not hiking fees on its credit cards even as its competitors continue to increase annual fees and roll out premium travel credit cards in an increasingly saturated market. Read more ›
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