Considering that the inception of Skift 10 years back, our mission has stayed strong: Assisting you– the travel professional– find out, grow and be influenced, by providing the best content, items and occasion experiences understood to the professional world. Skift International Forum is the pinnacle of this– the culmination of all we do here at Skift, brought to life onstage...
Skift Take Airlines are being careful not to violate the arrangements of the Cares Act, when outsourcing. Once it expires everything is level playing field and the ones left paying the rate will employees losing jobs. Ruthy Muñoz United Airlines stated on Thursday it was moving on with strategies to outsource its catering operations following a six-month evaluation, similar to other...
Spirit Airlines might still leave JetBlue’s clutches. Not from anything Frontier Airlines may do– Frontier is now out of the picture. Instead, the biggest barrier now standing in between JetBlue and its takeover of the Florida-based discounter are federal government legal representatives. Antitrust attorneys. To those lawyers, JetBlue will argue the following: Combining with Spirit...
As the sun rises in Mexico’s Quintana Roo state, home to the white sandy beaches of Cancun and Tulum, Rear Admiral Alejandro Lopez Zenteno prepares his sailors for another day of dragging rafts of brown seaweed to coast and out of view of cocktail-sipping travelers. Zenteno heads the operation for the Mexican Navy, which collaborates with the state and local governments to protect an area...
After years of collective silence and inertia from most organizations on environment action, the travel market has actually reached a turning point. For the first time, more than 300 players in global tourist have actually agreed to support a single roadmap addressing environment modification. By signing the Glasgow Statement on Environment Action in Tourist, every signatory makes a public...
Skift Take What can make a travel companies truly put their cash where their mouth is on sustainability? Threaten a lower placement on a Google search. Cameron Sperance Google’s plan to supply details on a hotel’s sustainability practices offers transparency amidst the climate crisis. But non-participating hotel owners don’t need to stress over their positioning on the online...
Skift Take Today’s edition of Skift’s day-to-day podcast looks at American Air’s spectacular quarter, Airbnb’s leaving creator, and the startups assisting fix tourism labor obstacles. Rashaad Jorden Good early morning from Skift. It’s Friday, July 22 in New York City. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today. Listen Now Subscribe Apple...
This week, travel start-ups announced more than $95 million in financing. >> Ixigo, a online travel and transit booking app based in India, has actually raised a $53 million round of funding, according to regulatory filings for parent entity Le Travenues Innovation. GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, led the round, the Economic Times first reported. Ixigo told Skift that it had actually...
Skift Take WanderJaunt declares in its sales pitch to offer its properties that it had industry-leading system economics. It does not describe, nevertheless, why it closed operations on brief notice leaving staff members, visitors, and creditors hanging. Dennis Schaal WanderJaunt, the Phoenix Arizona-headquartered residential or commercial property supervisor that had raised $37 million in...
Skift Take Our thoughts are with all those threatened by Typhoon Ian. Sean O’Neill Airlines canceled over a thousand U.S. flights on Tuesday and Wednesday and several Florida airports are halting operations as they braced for effect from Hurricane Ian, which was set to make landfall in the state. Airlines had ditched 321 flights on Tuesday and 1,148 on Wednesday across the U.S., according...