Travel Industry Earnings Coverage

eLong is putting its money, specifically $100 million of it, precisely where the company believes its future is, in mobile hotel technology. This initiative has certain parallels with what Concur is doing in using its own, larger investment fund, to encourage the development of travel startups doing interesting things.

Rentalcars.com won't bring in the mega wealth that Booking.com has done because of the disparate nature of the car and hotel businesses. But, there is a whole wide world out there, and Rentalcars.com, with Priceline's resources and experience at its disposal, has the potential to be a huge player on the global stage.

Barger is seeking to maintain JetBlue's middle ground between ultra low cost and network carriers, but investors' new love affair with Spirit Airlines and others of its type will keep the pressure on JetBlue management.

Delta's profitable second quarter continues its upward trend, and investors are still happy about the return to dividend payments announced in May.

American has some black ink in its future once it gets all its reorganization costs behind it.

EasyJet's greatest accomplishment in recent years is having solid numbers while still managing to ignore founder Sir Stelios' second guessing of absolutely everything they do.

By competing against both SAS and fellow low-cost carriers, Norwegian Air puts itself in the awkward position of fighting two very different battles.

American Airlines' momentum heading into the merger with US Airways is underwhelming.

Gol's timing has been wrong on everything for the past few years. Will it's current moves break this chain of errors?

Carnival will find a way to get out of its rut, but it will take longer to do so if it doesn't acknowledge that it's low fares directly relate to its less-than-stellar safety issues.