Expedia's outgoing chief financial officer said during its most recent earnings call that investments in its B2B unit could pressure margins near term. First Tiqets, and now CarTrawler, could be the investments he had in mind.
Delta's language shift, from "goal" to "aspiration," may sound like semantics, but it signals a broader retreat from hard climate commitments at a moment when the airline industry's 2050 net-zero pledge is already under strain.
A tie-up between United and American would create the largest carrier in the U.S. and have major ramifications for competition in the airline industry.
Heathrow is one of the Iran war's accidental winners – but an airport running at full capacity can only absorb so much of the world's rerouted traffic.