Sean O'Neill, Skift
Former Delta CEO Richard Anderson has been spearheading a revamp of the U.S. national railway through boosting safety, driving more profits from its co-branded credit card, and creating a mix of more low-cost and premium services in the U.S. northeastern corridor. Anderson's tricky balance is being ambitious while trimming longstanding losses.
4 months ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
Understandably, CEO Clare Gilmartin didn't want to play up moves into other travel areas too much at such an early stage, but we'll be keeping a close eye on how the company evolves over the next few years as it looks to diversify away from rail tickets and make more money in other areas.
4 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
If search for travel looking for door-to door trip options was a massive potential market, then Expedia, Booking Holdings, Ctrip, or Google would have already snapped up these companies, which have been laboring around that premise for years. This stuff is hard to execute, as the relatively modest exit seems to show.
4 months ago
Chris Bryant, Bloomberg
Flight shame is making Europe's rail companies smile. But there's still a lot to do before they could topple the airlines as the preferred mode of transport on the continent.
4 months ago
Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg
U.S. politicians agree on little. But there's consensus the country must improve its infrastructure. Now lawmakers need to get serious about spending money.
6 months ago
Swetha Gopinath, Bloomberg
Trainline, the transport-booking app, saw investors giving their seal of approval to the fast-expanding company on its first day of trading. CEO Clare Gilmartin deserves props for having doubled annual ticket sales over three years to $4 billion (£3.2 billion) while also making the company profitable.
8 months ago
Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg
Maybe California’s high-speed rail agency should spend less time suing the federal government over lost grants and more time focusing on cost overruns for the state’s beleaguered bullet train. Rail can be a less-carbon-intensive form of travel, but taxpayer money should be spent wisely.
9 months ago
Hanna Hoikkala and Niklas Magnusson, Bloomberg
Is airline passenger behavior in Sweden, where the numbers have been dropping, an outlier, or a sign of things to come? What is certainly true is this is a signal to airlines to get their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints in high gear.
10 months ago
Eileen Ng, Associated Press
Money talks. After months of uncertainty, it seems like the plan is back on track.
11 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal have stirred up debate about the path toward a sustainable travel future. She's right on time — and hopefully not too late.
12 months ago
Thomas Black, Bloomberg
While most developed countries enjoy modern, high-speed rail travel, the U.S. is way behind. By the time it catches up, driverless cars with long-life batteries could supersede trains or perhaps climate change may have begun to wreak havoc.
1 year ago
Frank Jordans, Associated Press
The app sounds like a good idea, but it remains to be seen whether all of the incumbent transit systems, with their vested interests, will hop along for the ride.
1 year ago
