Dennis Schaal, Skift
Expedia Group doesn't intend to hoard piles of cash for a rainy day. The company purports to favor share repurchases over acquisitions, all things being equal, but if a rainmaker of a deal comes along, then Expedia may pounce.
1 month ago
Doug Alexander, Bloomberg
The rules are the rules, in this case about prohibitions against foreign ownership of Canadian airlines. Air Canada is trying to ensure that WestJet isn't advantaged by foreign funding interlopers.
1 month ago
Seth Borko and Dennis Schaal, Skift
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.
5 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Honesty is the best policy. Even if it clashes with a nice FareHarbor bootstrapping story that seemed too good to be true.
6 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
On the surface, HotelTonight got a lowish deal from Airbnb. But with roughly half in stock, the price tag could look very upbeat if Airbnb's stock soars in an initial public offering.
7 months ago
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift
The combined Certify and Chrome River still pales in scope when compared to global behemoth SAP Concur. The approach of offering a variety of different services instead of a single platform, though, has potential in a fragmented global market for expense software services.
8 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Airbnb's move to offer more meetings spaces represents an example of one of Skift's 2019 Megatrends, as many giant online booking companies are looking for their next phases of growth by expanding into new areas.
9 months ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
It can take some airlines as long as a decade after a merger before they truly operate as one entity. But Alaska Airlines is working much faster to gobble up Virgin America. Part of that is because both carriers were relatively small. But by any standard, Alaska is moving quickly.
9 months ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
Is this the end of the story? We're willing to bet that this one still has more twists and turns to come.
9 months ago
Cecilia Yap, Bloomberg
Philippine Airlines needs the funds to compete, while All Nippon Airways must expand beyond a graying Japan. A potential deal isn't surprising for the two carriers, which already codeshare between their countries.
9 months ago
Bloomberg
Another Chinese conglomerate, this one with insurance, pharmaceutical, and tourism holdings, is looking to expand globally through acquisitions. Given that HNA Group, Dalian Wanda Group. and Anbang are scurrying to unload assets, does Fosun's strategy raise any red flags?
1 year ago
Hannah Sampson, Skift
Tune in for a candid conversation about the strategy behind AccorHotels' many acquisitions, why the company wants to be part of consumers' everyday lives, and what the CEO has learned from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on startups.
1 year ago
