Skift Take Delta Air Lines is getting public relations blowback by not mandating its staff members be immunized. Delta indicates its voluntary vaccination program as a success, however the Atlanta-based carrier said it will fall into line when the federal government requires contractors to immunize teams. Madhu Unnikrishnan As more significant U.S. airline companies followed suit today to require...
AirAsia Digital is including a ridesharing service to its AirAsia superapp with the launch this week of AirAsia Ride in Malaysia. With its launching, AirAsia Trip will give Malaysians another ridehailing alternative besides Grab, the Singaporean-headquartered superapp with a fortress in Southeast Asia and Malaysia. Strategies are in the works to expand AirAsia Trip’s reach to Thailand not...
Anne Rigail, CEO of Air France, had a lot to talk about during Skift Forum Europe 2022. Coming out of Covid, the flag carrier faces upheaval with the war in Ukraine and resulting spikes in fuel costs. But despite this, she remains bullish for the future, she told Seth Borko, Skift’s senior research analyst, during the event in London on March 24. Yes, fares will go up (economy-class fares on...
Skift Take Have a look at last year’s hotel CEO settlement tables. The top managers succeeded, and why not? Navigating the pandemic was tricky. Yet there was a large variation in the pay in between most CEOs and employees. That’s more difficult to defend. Sean O’Neill Rob Goldstein, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., was last year’s best-paid public hotel business CEO...
Skift Take Tour operators are puzzled by Germany’s move to expand the value added tax because they believe it not only threatens its tourism recovery, but because they believe German authorities didn’t think through the decision. Rashaad Jorden Despite largely making progress in their recovery from the pandemic, tour operators still face challenges in hitting pre-Covid metrics. And...
Skift Take Scaling up its tours and activities Musement organization with its brand-new online representative partners could assist the travel giant recover from repeated blows to its core package vacation organization. Matthew Parsons, Skift Packaged vacations operator TUI’s first-half results hammered home the severity of the pandemic: profits was $868 million for the six months to March...
Skift Take The aviation market’s target of accomplishing net no emissions is an essential action to fight environment change but it will be tremendously difficult as the number of people requiring to the skies reveals no indications of decreasing– particularly as locations are resuming. IATA’s brand-new hire of a market outsider signals that it will be a concern. Rashaad Jorden...
Skift Take Ouch. Still, it might have been a lot even worse for one of Latin America’s largest airline companies, which is paying less than half of the initial penalties that were consequently waived. The airline, which reported a loss last quarter, made the case it did not have the cash to pay all $87 million. Tom Lowry Brazil airline Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes SA will pay more than...
Skift Take China should weigh whether the economic pain deserves the rate of such difficult lockdown procedures in action to break outs that pale in comparison to those seen in markets like the U.S. Cameron Sperance China, generally viewed as the worldwide leader in the hotel market’s healing from the pandemic, took a huge fall recently in its hospitality comeback due to the Delta variant...
Skift Take For years, a handful of large airline company groups beyond the U.S. have slapped additional charges on airfare sold through tradition innovation. Hawaiian is the very first U.S.-based airline to add circulation additional charges. Sean O’Neill Hawaiian Airlines is quietly changing its circulation technique. Starting April 1, travel bureau in the U.S. that use the...