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Cruises
Cruise lines have work to do to prepare for the European Union's new border control measures coming this year and next.
Dawit Habtemariam | 3 weeks ago
Airlines
Any celebration in Seoul will likely be muted, as airline chiefs know the biggest regulatory challenges are yet to come.
Gordon Smith | 2 months ago
The Biden administration wants a law that would mandate airlines pay cash compensation for delays in some cases, similar to how the European Union handles the issue. But the chance Congress will agree is low.
David Shepardson, Reuters | 10 months ago
Keen to secure its $2.9 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines is determined to not let anything come in its way of creating the fifth-largest U.S. airline. JetBlue, for its part, is waiting in the wings. Over to the regulators.
Anirban Sen and Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters | 2 years ago
Coronavirus
Sabre's arguments that UK regulators would merely fall in line if a U.S. court backed Sabre's merger with Farelogix were naive. The UK ruling was essentially correct about the proposed deal stifling innovation, and somewhere airlines are quietly celebrating the ruling.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago
Online Travel
Google has argued for years that its boxed-up and featured hotel, flight, and restaurant results are highlighted because they provide users with the "best answers." But in Europe, regulators may have pushed Google to acquiesce, offering its competitors some air time in its featured results by testing direct links.
SkiftX
Unlike in the Google-ITA Software acquisition process, there is no organized, public campaign to stop Expedia's acquisition of Orbitz. But that doesn't man that competitors aren't whispering to the DOJ that the deal is bad for competition.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago
Greed may or may not be good, but in travel metasearch complexity is good. New rules in Europe may make searching for a hotel room online all the more difficult.
Damn, if the UK's Advertising Standards Authority can't take a joke … Meanwhile, Kayak's Brain Surgery ad is obviously working and that's why the company brought it back.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago
Unlikely the deal will get tripped up in anti-trust, Waze is too small to have ever become a material competitor, and its elimination from the market doesn't change much from competitive scenario.
Brian Womack, Bloomberg | 11 years ago