Travel Industry Earnings Coverage

If the Blackfish documentary is hurting SeaWorld's attendance, the theme park operator would be pained to admit it.

Priceline outlasted Expedia in the room-night growth arms race, posting 32% growth to Expedia's 24%. Although there was a slight dent in the armor, as Priceline room-night growth was slightly faster a year earlier.

Despite the stock hit that TripAdvisor took after its Q1 earnings came out, the company is really on a roll. TripAdvisor increased its full-year revenue guidance for 2014 -- and that doesn't even count the lift it is expected to get from a renewed TV advertising campaign and Instant Booking.

Orbitz had a little momentum going, but saw its all-important hotel room-night growth slow in the first quarter. It is also a lesson in scale as the bigger players such as Expedia and Priceline grow much faster.

Travelocity talked years ago about getting into the advertising and media business in a big way, but never made it happen. But, now Expedia has grand plans to use Travelocity's North America sites as a platform to expanding Expedia's own advertising and media business in tandem with the jolt that Trivago is already providing.

Trivago is the all-star in the Expedia stable, and saw its revenue rise year over year at an 80% clip in the first quarter of 2014.

Republic Airways freed itself of money-losing Frontier, and Republic recorded a nice profit in the first quarter despite massive flight cancellations.

With 1,000 customers signed up for its open-booking platform, and 5,000 new clients enrolled in all its products over the last year, Concur is getting increasingly mainstream in the corporate travel industry. That's a challenge for establishment companies such as American Express, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and BCD, which must pay heed to the insurgent.

Despite the disruptive weather, it was a strong first quarter for U.S. airlines -- even the ones everybody complains about. That is if your name isn't spelled U-N-I-T-E-D.