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2013 › February

Airlines

Flyers complain a lot, the most obvious survey in the world found

Bravo Tripadvisor, you amaze us with your amazing surveys.

Reuters | 11 years ago

Flyers complain a lot, the most obvious survey in the world found

Airlines

If airline passengers had Google Glass…

Our fave, besides the flight information: the available outlets at the gate. Metadata would become king in this scenario.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

If airline passengers had Google Glass…

Online Travel

Groupon says travel is a big deal as it makes concessions to local merchants

Critics have long charged that Groupon is not a sustainable business. That's because Groupon tends to turn off merchants because Groupon's cut of sales is so huge. Groupon's decision to take a diminished slice amount to a recognition that the critics were right to a certain extent.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Groupon says travel is a big deal as it makes concessions to local merchants

Tourism

The deadly balloon crash hurts already-hurting Luxor even more

Egypt can't get a break these days, everything seems to be heading towards a disaster.

Aya Batrawy, Associated Press | 11 years ago

The deadly balloon crash hurts already-hurting Luxor even more

Airlines

Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines readies IPO and records a profit

Low cost carrier Pegasus Airlines plans on using the proceeds from an IPO to wean itself off Boeing with an Airbus order for 75 A321neo planes. It's always nice to get a little financial help when you are jilting a longtime partner.

Ercan Ersoy, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines readies IPO and records a profit

Hotels

Hotels in the Middle East are renovating just to stay relevant

The quick redesign cycle speaks to the high stakes involved in operating properties in the emirates and the region: If you don't look new, you're just too old.

AllArabianBusiness.com Staff, HotelierMiddleEast.com | 11 years ago

Ground Transport

Piecing together London’s Tube map on its 80th birthday

The map's original designer was one of the first to realize that transit maps need to tell a different story than other maps and made choices that others have copied for eight decades.

Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times | 11 years ago

Piecing together London’s Tube map on its 80th birthday

Tourism

Berlin allows destruction of iconic wall to make way for luxury flats

It’d be a shame to see the Berlin Wall, its history, and the tourism dollars it attracts so frivolously discarded for an apartment building, but the situation highlights the city’s goal of appearing to be an innovative hub at whatever cost.

Kate Connolly, The Guardian | 11 years ago

Berlin allows destruction of iconic wall to make way for luxury flats

Online Travel

LastMinute.com co-founder gets cheeky on Twitter with House of Lords upgrade

Travelocity overpaid for LastMinute.com and it was a very problematic acquisition, but we're glad things are going well for Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho.

Richard Hall, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

LastMinute.com co-founder gets cheeky on Twitter with House of Lords upgrade

Airlines

Etihad’s new ad campaign shows global ambitions, going against Emirates

Part of Etihad's timing with this new campaign is due to the attention Emirates will get starting Apr 1 when its big partnership deal with Qantas starts. Other part is Turkish's big $120 million campaign that's ongoing.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Etihad’s new ad campaign shows global ambitions, going against Emirates