Skift Take: Six months of growth sounds like momentum until you check the baseline. Climbing out of an unusually soft...
Mumbai Airport Lets Airlines Keep Winter Slots, Delaying the Move to Navi Mumbai
Skift Take: A softer timeline gives Adani time to close many gaps. If it doesn’t, summer may bring the same...
Premier Inn Owner Fights Activist Bid as Rising Costs Squeeze Profit
Skift Take: Whitbread wants investors to accept thinner profit now for a simpler, higher-returning Premier Inn later. But an activist...
We’re Outsourcing Our Social Lives to Travel
Skift Take: As more of everyday social life has to be deliberately arranged, travel companies are finding a business in...
Stay 30 Days, Get $4 Million! Fake Challenge Videos Are a New Headache for Hotels
Skift Take: The videos are cheap to make. Hotels pay the price in front desk resources and reputation. Read the...
Fighting Spirit’s Data Sale to Google: Court Filings Show the List Getting Longer
Skift Take: The deal has faced months of delays and pushback, coming to represent a thorny issue of how far...
Higher Prices Are Supporting Travel Revenues While Volume Growth Slows
Skift Take: Rising prices are supporting travel revenues, but affordability pressures and uneven demand suggest the industry may be earning...
Delta Delays Riyadh Service to March 2027 Following Airport Attacks
Skift Take: Delta’s planned Atlanta-Riyadh service was already facing questions about safety and demand for the route ahead of the...
Saudi Arabia’s Aviation Ambitions Meet a Week of Terror
Skift Take: A single airport incident would have been troubling. A succession of strikes over just one week, including repeated...
Travel AI’s Prove-It Phase, Visibility, and the Booking Gap
Skift Take: Skift's Data + AI Summit in Europe this week just showed that AI may be changing travel distribution...