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On Monday's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, Michael Goldin, and Jamie Lane break down what AI is actually doing to travel economics and operations right now.

Given Skyscanner's leading global footprint in flights, it isn't hard to envision an LLM extracting it from Trip.com Group to accelerate building a travel vertical.

Alaska is doing away with earning points on basic economy seats, but it thinks the installation of Starlink across its fleet will funnel more customer loyalty.

The Gulf hub model was built for scale and transfer traffic. The Iran war has disabled both.

Four years to scale to 550 aircraft and 200 million passengers. Four years to build a widebody business while Air India races down the same long-haul runway. The clock is ticking for IndiGo.

A Ritz-Carlton, Westin, and JW Marriott are among the properties Marriott plans to open in Nepal. Plus, more hotel deal and development news from APAC.

The visa queue will clear. The question is whether leisure demand comes back with it.

The first negative reading of 2026 isn't a collapse — it's a rebalancing. Asia-Pacific is gaining what the transatlantic is losing.

It wasn't all that long ago that Iberia was fighting for survival. Today, it boasts Ryanair-like profitability. The Spanish flag carrier has transformed itself from a loss-making legacy laggard into a margin machine. How did Iberia pull it off — and can the success continue? We explore a great comeback in this week's feature story.

Where KSL is taking Soneva is firmly in the zeitgeist of what one segment of ultra-luxury travelers wants right now: less glitz, more optionality.

United CEO Scott Kirby said he still believes a merger with American would be beneficial but that the Fort Worth carrier’s management is the main obstacle.

Cendant existed for under nine years and left behind the financial architecture that almost all of modern travel still runs on.