Skift Take: United CEO Scott Kirby argues that surging fuel costs aren’t entirely responsible for higher airfares. Instead airlines are...
JetBlue Ties Loyalty Points to Flight Financing
Skift Take: The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to...
Oman and Africa Became Minor Hotels’ Safe Havens During the Iran War
Skift Take: Minor Hotels didn’t wait out the Iran war in the Gulf. It grew in Oman and Africa instead.Read...
Scandic’s Dalata Deal Template Comes for Europe’s Mid-Cap Hotels
Skift Take: Trading below your own bricks is an open invitation for financial interventions. For PPHE, Whitbread, and Meliá, the...
United Airlines Raises Outlook, Higher Fares Offset $6 Billion in Added Fuel Expense
Skift Take: United is betting that it will continue to see high travel demand in the second half of 2026...
Travel + Leisure Buys Into Maui and Hilton Head in $343 Million Deal
Skift Take: The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land...
No World Cup Bump: U.S. Tourism Down in June
Skift Take: While visitors from markets like the United Kingdom surged, total overseas visitation for June was down from last...
Yatra’s First International Expansion Looks Nothing Like Its OTA Competitors
Skift Take: For a company whose growth has been almost entirely India-centric, Yatra is now betting that enterprise travel technology...
Airbnb’s Best Hotel Strategy Is Sitting in Ennismore’s IPO Filing
Skift Take: Each side has what the other lacks: Ennismore, the hotel credibility, brand standards, and F&B depth; Airbnb, the...
Frontier Airlines to Add Starlink, Catching Up to Premium Airlines
Skift Take: Typically, airlines like Frontier don’t have in-flight Wi-Fi. But as premium products continue to fuel airline industry profits,...