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Sanctions be damned, destinations like Dubai and Maldives continue to welcome an inflow of Russian rubles to their tourism economies.

As the war in Ukraine enters its third week, its implications for the global airline industry — an industry that was only just beginning to emerge from two years of…

While India has set an ambitious, so-called Vision@2047 goal for tourism some two decades into the future, what’s really needed urgently right now is a long-overdue national tourism policy.

During the pandemic, American Airlines altered its frequent flyer programs, recognizing that the program had become too complicated and also that credit card use — not air travel — provides the bulk of the income.

The U.S. pilot shortage could imperil air service to smaller cities as airlines prioritize flights to larger metropolitan areas. The latest proof of this developing trend is that regional carrier SkyWest is planning to stop flying to 29 cities as it struggles to find pilots to operate its flights.

Quebec-based Transat has completed its metamorphosis from an integrated travel company into a national airline. But is it enough to survive a changing Canadian market hot with new airlines, proposed mergers, and changing business plans?

The pandemic only put off a problem that had been looming for the U.S. airline industry: The shortage of pilots. Airlines are competing for scarce talent and are cutting back schedules because they can't find enough aviators. Not helping matters is a historic run-up in fuel prices, which only adds to airlines' woes as they start to see demand for travel rise.

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, March 9, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Boeing and Airbus have ambitious plans to deliver hundreds of airplanes to the world's airlines this year, but supply chain woes could imperil their targets. Boeing, in particular, is struggling to meet its goals, said Steve Udvar-Hazy, executive chairman of Air Lease Corp.

Airlines have never faced the confluence of a global pandemic, war in Europe, and high oil prices. United Airlines' finance chief Gerry Laderman said there's no precedent for the concurrent crises, a phrase we've heard a lot of in the past few years.