Dennis Schaal Archives

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.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

The Rather Half-Baked Idea to Sell Half an Airline Seat

We're not betting that selling half-seats will happen any time soon, but the idea is something worth sitting back and wishing for the next time you can smell what your seatmate had for dinner.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

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.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

Corporations Are Embracing a Private Form of Social Travel Sharing

Large corporations tend to be very conservative, and in adopting social media for their road warrior employees, they aren't exactly letting their freak flags fly. This is social media for business travel behind firewalls.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Updated: American Air's Loyalty Program Returns to Tracking Sites After Bitter Absence

The agreement means sites and apps such as AwardWallet, TripItPro, Traxo, UsingMiles, and Superfly can easily access AAdvantage information for their members, without jumping through hoops and forging workarounds, if they choose to do so.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

United, American and Delta Executives Agree: Airline Mergers Are 'Beautiful'

Airline consolidation is getting disruptive these days -- and not just for stressed out passengers. New global joint ventures such as Virgin Atlantic-Delta and Emirates-Qantas are shaking up the status quo, and will be increasingly challenging to global airline alliances.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

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.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

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.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Virgin Atlantic CEO: Customs Lines at New York Airports "Embarrassing"

Kreeger and Anderson aren't officially joint venture partners yet, but their idea to pressure U.S. officials about embarassing Customs waits at New York airports doesn't appear to be a total coincidence.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

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.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago