2013 › January

Airlines

Delta tries to refresh fleet with $1 billion worth of yesterday’s aircraft

Delta is pursuing a maverick plan in bargain-shopping for single-aisle aircraft to replace its even older jets. There will be no advertising about having the youngest fleet in the industry.

Andrea Rothman and Mary Jane Credeur, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Airlines

Eight of your favorite Travel Channel dramas are coming back in 2013

Several newbies including "Airport 24/7: Miami" made their way to a second round, while incumbents "Ghost Adventures" and "Bizarre Foods America" head into their eighth season.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Crime’s the biggest threat to the future of Caribbean Tourism: Bahamas Prime Minister

Skift | 11 years ago

SkiftX

Travel group TUI listens to investors and drops plans of merging with its UK company

The speculation of a merger between the German and UK brands boosted TUI on the stock market, but negative investor feedback has brought the struggling parent company back to the drawing board.

Benedikt Kammel, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Abu Dhabi’s redesigned tourism website flourishes after adding social and translated content

Abu Dhabi is a perfect case study of the benefits, and frankly the necessity, of taking outdated tourism information into today’s global digital content world, one that the industry is slowing adapting to.

HotelierMiddleEast.com | 11 years ago

Airlines

The inexorable decline of loyalty in travel

As consumers use online and mobile tools to jump across all kind of industry-defined value chains, loyalty programs are becoming outdated and need a wholesale rethink.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

JetBlue is very tardy, but finally working on mobile boarding passes

JetBlue has been lagging in the mobile arena, and is therefore playing catch-up on mobile boarding passes and Apple Passbook, which competitors introduced months ago.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Skift global trend for 2013: Ancillary fees are the new normal, and it isn’t just airlines

The unbundling of industries is a trend happening across every sector, and travel is leading through airlines and now hotels as well.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Choice Hotels is no longer just a hotel company as it gets into timeshares

You are crazy if you think Airbnb and HomeAway aren't pressuring the traditiional hotel industry. Choice Hotels' new timeshare endeavor is a tiny manifestation of the disruption in the lodging industry.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Booking.com finally flexes its muscles with a new wacky TV ad campaign

Booking.com has turned out to be among the best acquisitions ever made in Internet history, and now it is shedding its shyness on marketing front.

Ari Levy, Bloomberg | 11 years ago