Sabre + Skift
Airlines have invested in making many of their offerings increasingly data-driven in recent years. Yet they haven’t taken the same approach to schedules, one of their preeminent products.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill and Brian Sumers, Skift
After years of being stuck in the past, new "smart" airports are embracing technology and data to improve the experience for both passengers and vendors. But progress is still slow, widening the gap between cutting-edge and archaic facilities. What's needed? More vision, less bureaucracy.
2 months ago
Fiona MacDonald and Layan Odeh, Bloomberg
Qatar Airways has been unable to launch its own Indian arm so it's expected to announce this week a strategic cooperation agreement with IndiGo to drive more traffic to and from India. IndiGo keeps growing by leaps and bounds.
3 months ago
Melissa Cheok and Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg
We'll believe it when we see actual passengers in real flying taxis that authorities have approved as safe.
3 months ago
David Fickling, Bloomberg
Qantas’ 20-hour services from Sydney to London and New York can only be profitable with plenty of passengers flying in business class, this analyst sensibly argues. In other words, no 20-hour flights for cattle class.
3 months ago
Justin Bachman and Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
U.S. carriers are split on whether single-aisle fleets need seatback screens. Consumer tastes are changing as in-flight Wi-Fi quality improves.
4 months ago
Peter Flanagan, Bloomberg
CEO Michael O’Leary said deliveries of the troubled Boeing Max 737 could slip another couple of months to around March 2020. At this rate, O'Leary may choose to retire before Ryanair takes possession of the revamped aircraft.
4 months ago
Justin Bachman, Bloomberg
It's not surprising that United Airlines is removing the Boeing 737 Max from its schedule until December 19. It's a smart call — Southwest just made a similar move. The whole industry is waiting for Boeing to deliver a long-promised software fix to restore trust in the airplane.
5 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Amadeus deserves credit for making strides in reducing its dependence on its original core business of airline distribution. Few companies in any industry succeed in diversifying. But work remains to be done. Plus, the company may not be doing enough to capture Asia's potential as a market.
6 months ago
Sabre + Skift
Flexible technology is often confused with built-to-order technology. What the airline industry needs today to meet customer expectations is much more robust than that — it needs a way to implement solutions that allow them to use the best technological offering for each specific task.
6 months ago
Elaine Ganley, Associated Press
Air France may stand trial in the 2009 crash of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that killed all 228 people aboard. The airline has maintained that the flight crew was properly trained and that the aircraft systems were functioning according to the standard at the time.
6 months ago
Justin Bachman, Bloomberg
Airlines and other travel companies have been testing more than 50 systems for so-called biometric identification technologies, such as faceprint scans. But the industry needs to agree on standards for collecting, tracking, exchanging, and protecting travelers' data to speed everyone's journeys.
7 months ago
