Articles tagged “hopper”

Online travel agencies still dominate how people book travel. But that dominance is starting to face pressure from multiple directions at once.

Capital One closed a deal this month to acquire the Hopper tech that powered Capital One Travel, and hired around 150 Hopper employees. I reported exclusively five months ago that this deal was going to happen.

The Hopper tech acquisition, along with that of Discover and Brex, position Capital One Travel to get much more competitive with American Express and Chase Travel in going after luxury and business travelers.

The RBC contract is a significant B2B win for fellow Canadian company, Hopper. Exclusivity may have been a precedent that Expedia saw as too limiting.

It's a done deal.

Capital One Travel liked Hopper's tools and people so much it's taking many of them in house.

It will soon be independence day for Capital One Travel, and Hopper adds to its own challenges.

The travel industry’s most important ecosystem story may be Montreal, where aviation DNA, patient capital, and a single Expedia office accidentally created a $15 billion infrastructure layer that much of the industry now runs on.

The pandemic trained travelers to expect the worst, and now travel brands are capitalizing on that mindset.

A new deal may serve to loosen the Capital One-Hopper partnership. Meanwhile, Hopper CEO Fred Lalonde co-founded and chairs a climate company: Doesn't a struggling Hopper require his full-time attention?