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Articles tagged “rail travel”

Business Travel

Remote Work Tech Startups Offer Quick Fix for Travel’s Labor Crisis

Governments around the world desperately need to fill vacant travel and tourism jobs. An emerging corporate-relocation-on-steroids model may help them staff up their airports and hotels, but may prove to be a short-term solution that fails to address more deep-rooted problems.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Remote Work Tech Startups Offer Quick Fix for Travel’s Labor Crisis

Business Travel

The UK’s Unique Brand of Travel Chaos Is Upending Recovery Efforts

With offices vacant again due to a crippling week-long rail strike, and airports under pressure, travel is suffering a setback, particularly business travel. In public relations terms, the UK should be in crisis management mode.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

The UK’s Unique Brand of Travel Chaos Is Upending Recovery Efforts

Ground Transport

Brightline Aims to Carry Holiday Travelers to Orlando by Christmas

Brightline backer Fortress Investment is confident that trains will begin rolling, but maybe without passengers, to Orlando in time for the Christmas holidays.

Edward Russell | 2 years ago

Brightline Aims to Carry Holiday Travelers to Orlando by Christmas

Ground Transport

Germany’s Good Intentions of a 9-Euro Discount Transit Pass May Just Backfire

Germany wants more people to ride trains and buses this summer with a nine-euro pass. But a surge in riders may hit the physical limits of the country's transport infrastructure.

Edward Russell | 2 years ago

Germany’s Good Intentions of a 9-Euro Discount Transit Pass May Just Backfire

Ground Transport

Deutsche Bahn Offers Ukrainian Refugees Free Travel and a Welcome in Berlin

Let's praise the German railway operator for offering free tickets anywhere within Germany to Ukrainian refugees. And props to Berlin for preparing public buildings such as the closed Tempelhof and Tegel airports to accommodate refugees.

Sarah Marsh, Reuters | 2 years ago

Deutsche Bahn Offers Ukrainian Refugees Free Travel and a Welcome in Berlin

Ground Transport

Siemens to Buy Rail Software Company Sqills for $650 Million

Sqills has won more contracts from railway operators to upgrade their inventory, booking, and ticketing software than any other tech vendor in recent years. So this acquisition makes sense.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Siemens to Buy Rail Software Company Sqills for $650 Million

Online Travel

7 Travel Startups Kickstarted by the UK Government

Private equity flooded the travel industry during the pandemic, but many startups looked to the government’s Innovate UK arm, which continues to put millions of pounds on the table.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 3 years ago

7 Travel Startups Kickstarted by the UK Government

Ground Transport

Travel Startup FlixMobility Raises $650 Million More for Intercity Bus and Rail

The holding company for FlixBus and FlixTrain is now the third-most lavishly funded travel startup in history, behind only Airbnb and Oyo. Investors see a big potential for modernized intercity bus and rail, even though many travel industry executives don't consider those sectors hip.

Douglas Busvine, Reuters | 3 years ago

Travel Startup FlixMobility Raises $650 Million More for Intercity Bus and Rail

Online Travel

Munich-Based Startup FlixMobility Ready for Train and Bus Resurgence in Europe

A soft brand, FlixMobility is like an Oyo for bus and rail. That's why it had a $2.4 billion valuation going into the pandemic. A CEO interview suggests the startup's asset-light model could prove resilient.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Munich-Based Startup FlixMobility Ready for Train and Bus Resurgence in Europe

Ground Transport

President Biden Touts Amtrak’s Low Climate Impact on the Railway’s 50th Anniversary

U.S. lawmakers have been alarmingly indifferent about infrastructure for years. The pandemic appears to have provided the political will to change that, but the climate crisis is also a factor. The president used Amtrak Friday to make his case.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

President Biden Touts Amtrak’s Low Climate Impact on the Railway’s 50th Anniversary