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Cruises
Younger travelers are making waves on Royal Caribbean Group cruises, steering the company’s post-pandemic growth.
Elizabeth Casolo | 21 hours ago
Tourism
Indigenous tourism groups are coming together to expand their global presence and coordination.
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago
Airlines
Passengers on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 de-boarded relatively unscathed with a large hole in the plane's fuselage. This occurred just days after Japan Airlines passengers safely exited Flight JL516 after a fiery runway collision with a Coast Guard plane. Count your blessings.
Reuters | 4 months ago
While Seattle is thriving across the board, it is high hotel occupancy that stands out as a clear winner.
Jess Wade, Skift | 10 months ago
There are no winners in this story.
Uday Sampath Kumar, Reuters | 2 years ago
Canada’s Porter Airlines is in a much better place compared to the pandemic, when it furloughed 90 percent of its staff. It's just ordered an additional 20 E195-E2 aircraft from Embraer, which also won an eight-plane order from Alaska Air Group.
Gabriel Araujo, Reuters | 2 years ago
Airline Weekly
Why would anyone start an airline now, as the airline industry recovers from its worst crisis in a century, to fly to Asia, a region where travel is expected to remain depressed until 2024? Northern Pacific Airways, a startup based in Anchorage, believes now is the best time, so it can get established before competition heats back up.
2 years ago
In Skift's top travel stories this week, we looked at changes in Air France-KLM's pricing strategies, Vrbo's attempt to woo disgruntled Airbnb hosts, Nashville's tourism strategy, and the Delta's reversal and the state of Georgia's new voter suppression law.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago
Coronavirus
In coronavirus-related travel stories this week, Skift covered the tardiness of banning European travel to the United States, Airbnb and Trivago's workforce cuts, staycations, Hilton's views on drive vacations, and Alaska Airlines' bets on its agility with domestic travelers.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago
People joke that Alaska Airlines' name no longer makes sense. But the airline still has a huge franchise in the state. It's going to want to defend its turf.
Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago