Jason Clampet

Jason Clampet is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Skift.

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US Airways is cool if American Airlines just wants to take it slow

US Airways is content to play it cool while American uses delay tactics to put off what's looking inevitable: it's takeover by another legacy carrier.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

What an interior designer thinks about the bad things people do in hotel rooms

There's nothing like a good story about BCP (read the story) to encourage the staycation movement.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

TechCrunch article about Triposo is wrong about everything

How can a story about a company successfully raising $3.5 million get so many things wrong? Quick answer: Users haven't favored social approach and there are no successful "friendsourced, social graph-based models" for Triposo or old-school guides to compete with -- the Trippys and Gogobots are pivoting.

Skift | 12 years ago

Cruises

Concordia’s woes continue: A faulty black box, open doors, and bad maps

The captain may be to blame for the crash, but each new report speaks to a culture onboard the Concordia that was less than ship-shape.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Bumbling U.K. Home Office still can’t prevent long lines at Heathrow

Heathrow's operator BAA is taking the flack for the airport's dreadfully long line, but its entirely the responsibility of utter incompetence in the British Home Office.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

What does it take to make you complain about a hotel stay?

In the era of tweets and TripAdvisor it's become a quandary for travelers to know the best way to voice their displeasure and think it will actually be heard by the right person.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

New iOS app integrates trusted services to help users pack

Integration of TripIt and its actionable information about the trips you take give this app an instant edge over competitors.

Skift | 12 years ago

Business Travel

Western Africa is connecting business travelers with new opportunities

While interest in consumer goods is luring business people to western Africa, countries like China and Brazil are deeply engaged in building infrastructure.

Skift | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

Emirates expands service to Spain with new Barcelona route

Direct connections to Dubai are seen as opportunities now in in a struggling Europe, and Emirates knows the power it has in its route map.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotels piggyback on success of Fifty Shades of Grey with package deals

Every pop culture hit gets its own tourism tie-ins. It's just that this one is more titillating than New York's "Spider Man Week."

Skift | 12 years ago