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Articles tagged “flights”

Ground Transport

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

If search for travel looking for door-to door trip options was a massive potential market, then Expedia, Booking Holdings, Ctrip, or Google would have already snapped up these companies, which have been laboring around that premise for years. This stuff is hard to execute, as the relatively modest exit seems to show.

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

Online Travel

Booking.com Launches Flights Through Partnership Across Europe

The Booking.com flight partnership with eTraveli doesn't seem particularly seamless because travelers still have to hop over to a third-party site, Gotogate, to complete their reservations. Still, the deal is another step in Booking.com's evolution from hotel-only provider in its early days to well-rounded online travel company.

Booking.com Launches Flights Through Partnership Across Europe

Airlines

Ryanair and Expedia Settle Screen-Scraping Lawsuits on 2 Continents

Screen-scraping lawsuits are as old as the internet. We don't know if any money changed hands when Ryanair and Expedia settled lawsuits in the United States and Ireland, but what seems apparent is that Ryanair flights have gone missing on Expedia websites. Case(s) closed.

Online Travel

Expedia to Connect Travelers With Hotels When Their Flights Are Delayed

Expedia wants to help put customers in touch with hotels to sort out travel complications. That seems like it would be a complicated dance because Expedia doesn't readily share much customer information with hotels, a longtime grievance in the lodging industry.

Expedia to Connect Travelers With Hotels When Their Flights Are Delayed

Online Travel

Amazon Collects Fees From Cleartrip in New India Flights Offering

Amazon's deal with Cleartrip using Amazon Pay for India domestic flights could be a forerunner of similar moves in other emerging markets where payment systems are being disrupted. This time around in travel, Amazon has decided to partner rather than build its own offering — a very reasonable way to get back into the game.

Amazon Collects Fees From Cleartrip in New India Flights Offering

Online Travel

Amazon Confirms Flight-Booking Launch as Part of a Superapp Strategy

Amazon wants to be a superapp, the mobile tool of choice to book flights, buy books, and make payments. In travel, flights are only the beginning.

Amazon Confirms Flight-Booking Launch as Part of a Superapp Strategy

Mergers and Acquisitions

Skift Analysis: Amazon’s Travel Strategy Comes Into Focus

The same rules that apply to run-of-the-mill travel sellers do not necessarily apply to Amazon. While cash back on flights in India may seem loss-generating and unsustainable, for Amazon it could be a winning strategy.

Skift Analysis: Amazon’s Travel Strategy Comes Into Focus

Online Travel

Amazon Launches Flight Bookings in India in a Superapp Strategy

A shoe just dropped. Amazon is stepping into travel again. It may offer travel products in all sizes once it really gets going.

Online Travel

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Consumers in the West reach almost reflexively for the Google Maps app as the service becomes a nearly ubiquitous utility despite a dearth of messaging and payments. Whether it evolves into the next superapp may depend on whether users really want a do-everything app and the mood of regulators seeking to break up big tech.

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Online Travel

Google’s Travel Services Aren’t a Focus of European Regulators Just Yet

Over the last couple of years, rumors have been flying around that the European Union wanted to take a closer look at Google's travel tools. For now at least, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Google’s Travel Services Aren’t a Focus of European Regulators Just Yet