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Articles tagged “consolidation”

Business Travel

Major Travel Agencies Are on a Consolidation and Expansion Fast Track

Travel agencies are poised for expansion, but the major challenge is finding travel advisors to fill new positions. Acquiring agencies and enticing newcomers to join the industry are ways around it.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 4 years ago

Major Travel Agencies Are on a Consolidation and Expansion Fast Track

Online Travel

Flight Centre Will Eliminate Some Leisure Brands

Australia’s largest travel agent, Flight Centre, is not resting on its laurels after posting record revenues and strong profits. To ensure it stays on track, the group is shedding underperforming businesses, and dumping some of its leisure brands. It is also chasing growth in emerging business lines ranging from destination management to foreign exchange services.

Allan Leibowitz, Skift | 6 years ago

Flight Centre Will Eliminate Some Leisure Brands

Business Travel

Corporate Travel Is Bracing for the Impact of the Marriott-Starwood Merger

It could still be several weeks before the Marriott-Starwood deal is wrapped up — and much longer before the two companies are integrated — but travel buyers and travel management companies are wise to start preparing now for eventual negotiations with the bulked-up company.

Hannah Sampson, Skift | 8 years ago

Corporate Travel Is Bracing for the Impact of the Marriott-Starwood Merger

Business Travel

Expedia CEO Predicts Mergers Are the Next Big Thing in Corporate Travel

Big travel management companies are going to look to acquire technology companies and smaller competitors as they struggle to scale up their technology platforms.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Airlines

United, American and Delta Executives Agree: Airline Mergers Are ‘Beautiful’

Airline consolidation is getting disruptive these days -- and not just for stressed out passengers. New global joint ventures such as Virgin Atlantic-Delta and Emirates-Qantas are shaking up the status quo, and will be increasingly challenging to global airline alliances.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

United, American and Delta Executives Agree: Airline Mergers Are ‘Beautiful’

Airlines

British Airways boss sees consolidation, not alliances, as future of aviation

Walsh has been spending time with heads of the Middle East’s thriving airlines and he's leaning toward their strategy of investments over alliances. His musings are theoretical now with EU regulations limiting action.

Robert Wall, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Airlines

Delta executives said to be in support of further airline consolidation

The new American doesn’t step on toes in Atlanta, but it does pose a significant challenge to Delta’s ambitious plans for expansion at New York’s LGA coming in just behind Delta's 45.5% slot control.

Kelly Yamanouchi, The Atlanta Journal Constitution | 11 years ago

Delta executives said to be in support of further airline consolidation

Airlines

Delta CEO says AMR-US Airways merger to take place “shortly” and supports it

Richard Anderson has long been an advocate of airline consolidation, and believes an American-US Airways merger will happen soon and will be healthy for the industry. Whether that benefits consumers is another story.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Delta CEO says AMR-US Airways merger to take place “shortly” and supports it