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Airlines
As expected, the Justice Department is moving forward to block one of the biggest proposed tie-ups in U.S. airlines in years. Can the deal be saved?
Edward Russell | 3 weeks ago
Routes between Barcelona, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome and South Korea have EU regulators concerned about competition. This three-year M&A saga finds itself with one more new chapter.
Foo Yun Chee, Reuters | 1 month ago
Airline Weekly
JetBlue still has one big card to play if it really wants the green light to merge with Spirit: its alliance with American.
1 month ago
Online Travel
Google advises "we never sell your personal information." But it should add the following disclaimer: But we make an almost unfathomable amount of money from it.
Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago
JetBlue's takeover of Spirit could get leg up if a judge rules for it and American in the suit brought by the Justice Department.
3 months ago
News Blog
South Korea's antitrust regulator said Tuesday it would slap two Booking Holdings brands fines of $1,750 (2.5 million won) for its flagship brand Booking.com — and a similar fine on sister brand Agoda — for not clearly telling customers that their search results are partly based on advertising, Yonhap News Agency reported. CORRECTION: This article…
Sean O'Neill | 5 months ago
Regulators' efforts to ensure competition risks making JetBlue's arrangement with American Airlines less lucrative or viable. Expected JetBlue to make a "spirited" defense.
Diane Bartz, Reuters | 6 months ago
The European Commission found that banning certain rate parity provisions impacted competition minimally. Therefore, perhaps designating Booking.com a "gatekeeper," were it to happen, wouldn't be the end of online travel as we know it.
Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago
Google announced it will shut Book on Google for flights for users outside the U.S. at the end of September, and told Skift it will likewise end the feature in the U.S. sometime after March 31. It turns out, a declining number of users were booking their flights on Google, which acknowledged that travelers would…
Short-Term Rentals
Airbnb appears to be happy to rectify the situation, which seems to have been a mistake. But we’d still like to see them work the price of mandatory fees into the displayed nightly price.
Reuters | 10 months ago
