A wave of high-profile flight cancellations has put a spotlight on employee scarcities at U.S. airlines, triggering warnings of new delays over the holiday period as airlines scramble for staff. It is a significant shift for an industry that was coming to grips with surplus labor as coronavirus hammered air travel just a year ago, and is the most recent proof of an expanding labor crunch. As...
Skift Take Simply last week Delta Air Lines CEO asked the CDC to cut quarantine times, stating the “Omicron surge may worsen scarcities and create considerable disturbances.” That has actually definitely proven to be true in the previous four days, and now U.S. health officials appear to get the message by cutting isolation time for the asymptomatic in half. Tom Lowry U.S. health...
Skift Take Remote work is here to stay. Which’s a good idea for the travel industry as it will produce a big market of long-term travelers that live and work anywhere. These digital wanderers have the prospective to be a little and mighty traveler type that are well worth understanding. Seth Borko, Skift In our newest report, Skift Research examines the prospective market for digital...
Skift Take Getaway hotspots Greece and Spain aren’t your normal Etihad destinations, but they have actually certainly helped the airline company’s bottom line this summer season. Matthew Parsons The CEO of Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways stated on Wednesday there was cause for some optimism after July marked the airline’s greatest month in about a year and a half. The state...
Skift Take With brand-new spikes in traveler hotspots such as Mallorca and where vaccines are lagging such as Indonesia, it’s a shaky argument to make that global travel constraints do not help include Covid. Vaccine equity will continue to shape the return of international travel. Lebawit Lily Girma, Skift U.S. travel leaders, progressively irritated by the absence of international travel...
Skift Take Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, March 18, in New York City. Here’s what you need to understand about the business of travel today. Rashaad Jorden Today’s edition of Skift’s everyday podcast discusses what endemic Covid might mean for tourist in Asia, how rising fuel prices are hitting the conferences and occasion industry, and Oyo’s obstacles as it...
Skift Take Years earlier, leisure tourists typically rented cars and trucks at the airport. But numerous now hail rides to hotels instead. That behavior shift offers homes an opportunity to rent out electric vehicles. Sean O’Neill, Skift In some cases a promotional stunt speaks to larger trends that deserve keeping in mind. That holds true with a new offering from Graduate Hotels. This is a...
Skift Take With robust development even through the pandemic, Accor’s domestic offerings across brand names like Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, SLS, and much more have a bright future ahead– and an edge over rivals in the market. Accor Group While many sectors of the travel and tourist industry have actually had a difficult two years through the pandemic, top quality residences have not...
Skift Take A brand-new chapter that will assist the company concentrate on the future, however will a nontransparent ownership structure hinder its healing strategies? Matthew Parsons Corporate travel bureau CWT hopes to draw the line under a troubled 18 months with a significant monetary restructuring, which will see the family-owned Carlson group switch from majority to minority stakeholder...
Skift Take The airline company market has been concentrated on the rate of oil the last few weeks. It appears that a crisis has been averted, however there’s no assurance of smooth sailing for the foreseeable future. Madhu Unnikrishnan Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine at first sent out oil markets into a spiral. Rates might have come back down to earth, but oil stays unstable. Yet, U.S...