Dennis Schaal

Dennis Schaal is Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.

Airlines

Virgin America CEO: Newark Flights Led the Way on First Ever Q2 Profit

There has been a lot of skepticism about whether Virgin America could turn itself into a profitable airline. It still faces tremendous competition and big-time challenges, but today's earnings announcement was a hopeful sign for an airline that a lot of people feel very good about.
Business Travel

Marriott Rewards Acknowledges Attempt to Hack Members' Accounts

Marriott and JetBlue have admitted that there were hack attempts; Expedia is reporting more credit card fraud, and HomeAway has been coping with an epidemic of phishing incidents. The state of online security and privacy is getting very dicey.
Business Travel

Photo-Sharing App Has Head-Scratcher of an Investor

Concur and Trover: strange bedfellows? Not so much, according to Concur, which believes social media will play a major role in business travel, and how well employees follow the mandates of their companies' travel policies.
Business Travel

TripIt Pro to Get Aggressive Ad Campaign to Jumpstart Open Booking

A lot of mega travel agencies and major corporations are trying to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle when they battle their employees over how and where they book their travel. The solution definitely isn't handing out badges and mayorships.
Online Travel

Priceline Redesign: Shatner Returns and It's All About Express Deals

Priceline's new homepage is a lot prettier than its immediate predecessor. No, William Shatner isn't pretty, but he and Kaley Cuoco accomplish Priceline's goals of touting its Hotwire-like product, Express Deals, as bidding gets shuffled to the background.