Edward Russell travel tips

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, November 3. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, November 16. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Executives from two new airlines, Connect Airlines and Breeze Airways, shared their strategies at the Skift Aviation Forum in Dallas for starting up and pushing forward.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, November 23. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, November 10. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Surf Air Mobility plans to list directly on public markets in the U.S. after ending a planned $1.4 billion special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, listing.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, November 15. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Twelve minutes. That’s all the time it took for the board of directors of Avianca, the second largest airline in Latin America, to set the fate of the carrier and begin a series of sweeping changes to the airline industry in the region.

Cathay Pacific Airways, after worries that Hong Kong’s strict Covid rules could doom the airline, is beginning its post-pandemic bounce back as the Chinese special administrative region eases its border rules.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, December 20, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Amtrak saw some 10 million travelers return to the rails in the U.S. last year. That was great news for the railroad that saw passenger numbers crater during the early days of the pandemic then slowly come back as people hesitantly returned to travel.

Two months. That’s how long Southwest Airlines expects there to be an impact on bookings from its massive holiday meltdown that disrupted millions of travelers over Christmas and New Years.

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn will reduce travel times between Munich and Stuttgart to under two hours when a new high-speed rail line opens in December.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, December 6. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Southwest Airlines has put an initial number to the losses incurred during its holiday meltdown: a $725-825 million hit to its pre-tax income in the fourth quarter. That number includes both $400-425 million in lost revenue and added costs, for example reimbursing people for alternative travel costs.

It’s not often that travelers have something to look forward to at Newark Liberty International Airport. The new $2.7 billion Terminal A will open in December, the latest in a series of major airport projects opening around the U.S. this year.

The inaugural Skift Aviation Forum welcomed Robert Isom, the CEO of American Airlines, as its first speaker at the Statler Hotel in downtown Dallas. During the interview he shared how the world’s biggest airline was prepared for the upcoming Thanksgiving vacation, and already looking ahead to the future with a focus on recruiting and training pilots, and staffing the carrier back up.

Airbnb Mulls Removing Cleaning Fees as a Separate Charge: Hosts may be sabotaging their own bookings by levying excessively high cleaning fees. It is turning off many people to Airbnb, which is a concern for the company.

JetBlue Airways will land on the European continent next summer with new flights to Paris.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Monday, December 12. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, January 6, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.