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Airlines
We learned this year that air travel truly is a team sport that's only as strong as its weakest member.
Edward Russell | 1 year ago
Airline Weekly
KLM‘s new CEO, Marjan Rintel, has been in the job less than five months and already faces serious questions over the future of the airline. She recently sat down with Airline Weekly Editor Edward Russell in New York to discuss KLM’s future.
1 year ago
Tourism
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at tourism growth around the World Cup, Hilton’s bleisure travel knowledge, and KLM’s climate concerns.
Rashaad Jorden | 1 year ago
KLM's new CEO Marjan Rintel hopes the Dutch government will compromise on flight caps in Amsterdam in favor of other ways to reduce carbon emissions.
News Blog
The European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have signed a new open skies agreement aimed at recovering and expanding airline links between the two regions. The agreement is unique as it covers two blocs of countries — the EU has 27 members and ASEAN 10 — rather than two countries or between…
Edward Russell | 2 years ago
Short-Term Rentals
In Skift's top stories this week, Airbnb announces plans to redesign pricing on its platforms, KLM faces a murky future, and Delta believes that even a possible recession won't impede travel's recovery.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago
Hotels
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Radisson's attempts at transparent sustainability, KLM's challenges in Amsterdam, and Europe's aviation expansion.
If KLM and Schiphol airport are two golden geese of the Dutch economy, government officials are doing their utmost to strangle them.
Jay Shabat, Skift | 2 years ago
As it grapples with labor crunch, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is cutting flights and limiting the number of passengers to help make the queues more manageable. Clearly, this isn't the post-Covid recovery that European airlines had been expecting.
Toby Sterling and Klaus Lauer, Reuters | 2 years ago
European airlines have warned once and again that airport staffing, and other issues, threatened to derail what is widely expected to be a busy summer travel season. Those issues have been on display at KLM and Amsterdam's Schiphol airport two weekends in a row now. The airline said Saturday that it would "no longer allow…
