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.

Business Travel

How Americans Traveled Domestically Last Quarter: Mostly Alone

Even when road warriors travel to meetings or events with colleagues they usually book their travel alone. This speaks in part to the inadequacy of group-booking options, and untapped opportunities for startups.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Child-Free Zones On Airplanes? U.S. Airlines Reject the Idea

With U.S. airlines selling aisle, window and exit row seats for an extra fee throughout the aircraft, child-free zones could be a logistical nightmare even if it were a good idea.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

10 Most Wi-Fi-Connected U.S. Airports and 10 Least-Connected

With just 6.2% of travelers on Gogo-equipped flights using Wi-Fi you can see that the industry is headed toward free Wi-Fi on flights, assuming the systems can handle the bandwidth.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Hotels

Deal Publisher Travelzoo In Profit Plunge as It Tries to Diversify

Will Travelzoo's entry into hotel booking be too little, too late? The deal publisher has a huge subscriber base to market to once the hotel-booking engine is in place, but competition is intense.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

American Express earnings impacted by slump in global business travel

Leisure travel, particularly in the U.S., is leading the way within American Express' travel businesses, although it is a lot smaller than its global business travel unit, which is under pressure.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Hotels

Priceline updates iPad app with emphasis on hotel deals tonight

Priceline's iPad app reduces potential confusion about its panalopy of hotel services. Just tap on a services, such as Express Deals or Name Your Own Price, and you're in.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Hotels

HomeAway Gets Closer to Airbnb-Style Rentals With Control of Asia-Pacific Site

It looks like that supposed great divide between vacation rentals and Airbnb-style apartment rentals and shares isn't so immense. Or at least HomeAway will find out if it is cut out for the sharing economy.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Brand USA's Funding Under Threat After 2015, and Congress May Not Help

You can debate whether Brand USA's strategy is the best way of promoting international visitations to the U.S. But, if the country is going to have a quasi-governmental tourism-marketing organization, it is tough for Brand USA to get on solid footing if it has to constantly look over its shoulder to figure out if it will get renewed funding life.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Cruises

Carnival Splendor Power Loss Likely Caused by Crew Member Error

Carnival needs its new CEO to step up and get involved right away. The cruise line needs to take responsibility for its seeming lack of crew-member preparedness and whether there may be links to this and the low, low wages it pays.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Despite Dreamliner incidents, 23 Boeing 787s airborne at the moment

It's business as usual for now for major airlines with Dreamliners in their fleets as the investigation proceeds in London.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago