2025 › January

Today’s podcast discusses OpenAI’s new travel tool, Tripadvisor bidding battles, and American Airlines’ earnings.

More than 1,000 flights are canceled and ground transportation is suspended as a severe winter storm sweeps across the UK and Ireland on Friday. 

With a bid coming across the table as late as last week, will Tripadvisor's proposed acquisition of Liberty Tripadvisor close as scheduled by June? If it gets that far, there could be all kinds of deal possibilities in Tripadvisor's future.

OpenAI’s new autonomous digital assistant is an early glimpse of what travel leaders have been waiting for — and warning against — since ChatGPT was first released.

The FAA and DOT deleted webpages concerning diversity and inclusion following President Trump’s executive orders to halt DEI hiring. So far, major airline executives have not said they would roll back DEI hiring.

MakeMyTrip’s earnings call highlights a crucial point: Travel is no longer a luxury but an integral part of contemporary Indian lifestyle.

China’s visa-free policies go beyond travel convenience — they’re a strategic driver of the country’s inbound tourism rebound.

At Ennismore, outsourcing is out, and in-house design is in.

American said it was anticipating higher costs driven by lower capacity and expensive labor contracts to dampen its first-quarter outlook.

If you thought the A380 was consigned to the junkyard, think again. Lufthansa is proving the double-decker colossus has plenty of runway left.