2015 Archives

These are the newest travel startups from Angel List vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Dubai's fortuitous location and its ability to invest in terminal and technology have a large part to do with its impressive growth, but so does smart leadership that anticipates what passengers and airlines need before they look elsewhere for it.

This has ballooned beyond a dispute over the Open Skies application of a relatively small carrier (Norwegian Air International) to an existential debate of the free market future for the global aviation industry. Decisions made now will have lasting repercussions.

The state of cruise Wi-Fi looks very promising for this year and beyond, but the same can't be said for prices passengers will pay to stay connected.

In order for hotels to drive direct bookings, it's better to keep customers engaged and on their websites by providing an unbiased, less controlled take on the property than have them leave and seek out other review and booking channels.

Route location plays a huge part in Alaska's and Hawaiian's continued success. A better indicator of aviation progress is overall industry on-time pefromance, record, which continues to decline.

These are the newest travel startups from Angel List vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Are subscription airline services such as those from Surf Air, Rise and the soon-to-be-launched Beacon ripe for consolidation given the close ties among co-founders? OK, we're kidding. First we'll have to see if there is even a market for the membership model in aviation.

A smart look at the factors, including the rush toward direct bookings, that are shaping the entire metasearch sector in 2015.

We sure are glad the the FCC gave the go-ahead for passengers to turn on their phones in-flight. No more having to fumble for credit cards with Apple Pay on JetBlue flights. Google Wallet, though, appears to be missing in action.