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Tourism
The greenfield airports would not just connect smaller cities to the rest of the country, but would also help popularize tourism to off-beat destinations.
Amrita Ghosh | 1 year ago
The fast-paced growth of online travel bookings makes the tourism industry a ripe target for cybercriminals. Stakeholders must therefore deploy strategies and tools to guard the sector against data breaches and malicious attacks.
News Blog
Dubai International Airport expects passenger traffic to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2023, a year earlier than its CEO Paul Griffiths' prediction of hoping to regain pre-Covid traffic levels by 2024. As air travel gets back to normal, Dubai Airport witnessed a half-yearly traffic of 27.9 million passengers this year, just 1.2…
Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago
Despite spending around $585 million on implementing its traffic light system as part of its wider response to manage travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK government does not know whether the system worked or whether the cost was worth the disruption caused, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee of the House…
Airlines
As Chinese airlines brace for another year in the red following the country's zero-Covid policy, the government will be doling out cash support to carriers for two months. However, airlines will have to be eligible for the subsidy.
Stella Qiu and Ryan Woo, Reuters | 2 years ago
Airline Weekly
U.S. airlines are gearing up for a hot summer, adding flights ahead of strong anticipated demand. But hectic flying schedules, along with contract issues, have led some pilots to airport protests.
2 years ago
Until now, artificial intelligence has mostly been hype. But AI is starting to save travel companies real money by making smarter predictions about events that impact operations.
Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago
Coronavirus
India's devastating second wave of the pandemic is arresting the pace of the travel recovery, at least for the short-term. It's too early to tell if the shrinking industry will be able to cater to the vast pent-up demand once Covid is under control.
Varsha Arora, Skift Research | 3 years ago
A small ray of sunshine for the big three legacy U.S. carriers engaging in a bloody Open Skies battle, although United and American probably aren't happy Southwest saw the most year-over-year passenger growth of any U.S. carrier.
Dan Peltier, Skift | 9 years ago
International air traffic remains relatively similar when compared month-to-month; however, slight increases lead to year-end records that spur tourism development.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago
