Rafat Ali

Airlines will never be featured in any list of most-loved consumer brands, but on the brand side, still they are still very valuable as this list shows.

This list of best airport and rail food and beverage outlets is missing new and innovative initiatives, especially local ones in Asia. But still worth perusing for what the industry overall considers the best in breed.

All the elements that need to be present in a great tourism video -- creative landscape visuals, people having fun, non-generic voiceovers, right music --- fit in well in this one. Maybe BrandUSA should learn from this, or better still, maybe hire Tourism Australia to do all its marketing? Is that even possible?

A lot of this may be corporate-speak, but interesting enough to watch this attempted transformation of a travel giant, and larger lessons for the travel agent world.

Promising too much, too soon? DEN, IAH and CLE friendly? Surely weary New Yorkers would care, right?

The history of this "struggle" against restrictions on digital device usage on flights started with one New York Times reporter picking up the flag of freedom ...

As airports compete for choosy passengers and air routes, they are turning into destinations themselves with unique amenities. Once regarded as purely utilitarian infrastructure, airports are now becoming more integrated with their surroundings and hosting new experiences for passengers and non- passengers alike.

New York City deserves a lot better local transit apps than the choices now. The ultimate multi-modal real-time local transit app is still some ways off, but tons of progress is being made, as Citymapper shows.

The company still hasn't recovered from the slump in business travel post-recession, and with the macro picture on the sector changing fast with rise of digital, divesting, at least part of it, is the right move.