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Airbnb Added Car Rentals and Now Looks a Lot Like Expedia
JetBlue picks up Spirit's coveted LaGuardia slots for $58.5 million, Airbnb adds car rentals and keeps inching toward becoming a one-stop travel shop…
2 months, 1 week ago
United's CEO Says Cheap Flights Are Gone Forever
United's Scott Kirby makes it official — the era of dirt-cheap airfares is over, a travel agency startup just hit a billion-dollar valuation by betti…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
AI Is Not Going to Fix Travel's Labor Problem
AI Is Not Going to Fix Travel's Labor Problem
A sharp reality check reveals AI is being deployed in exactly the wrong places to address travel's labo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Even Frontier Is Going Premium Now
The World Cup failed to deliver the U.S. tourism bump everyone was counting on, Skift lays out a compelling theory for why Airbnb's best hotel move m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Canada Is Still Not Coming Back to the U.S.
Canadian travel to the U.S. ticks up in June but underlying data shows a market that still hasn't decided to return, lifestyle hotel brands are movin…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Best World Cup Marketing Cost Nothing and British Airways Started It
Two airlines created the World Cup's best marketing moment without paying FIFA a cent, Delta launches a stripped-down business class fare that turns …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
EasyJet Is Being Sold and Every Independent European Airline Is Watching
EasyJet's potential $7 billion takeover is putting Europe's remaining independent airlines on notice, Air Canada names a new multilingual CEO after a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
AI Chatbots Are Skipping Travel Apps Even When They're Connected
The World Cup's tourism boost is spreading far beyond host cities into markets nobody expected, AI chatbots are bypassing travel brand apps even when…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Airbnb Beat Marriott at the World Cup and Spent Less Doing It
Airbnb nearly doubled Marriott's World Cup marketing reach at a fraction of the cost, airlines are buying concert venue naming rights and turning the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Government Wants Airlines to Hide Fees Again
The Trump administration moves to repeal Obama-era airfare transparency rules, OTAs shift their focus from winning traveler trust to winning the trus…
2 months, 4 weeks ago