JetBlue has broadened its codeshare partnership with Qatar Airways. Under the expansion, JetBlue customers will have codeshare access to 11 additional Qatar Airways routes from Doha. Thirteen destinations are already part of the codeshare. The 11 new destinations are Accra, Ghana; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Windhoek,[…]
Read More »Demand is high, but a pilot shortfall and aircraft delivery delays continue to constrain growth at Southwest Airlines. “I think we have a couple years where demand and supply won’t be as aligned as pre-pandemic,” chief commercial officer Andrew Watterson said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. Still,[…]
Read More »Avoya Travel is developing an air booking platform, colloquially calling the endeavor “Project Eagle.” Avoya traditionally has focused on booking the cruise, hotel and and tour portions of vacations, calling the GDS technology for booking air “antiquated.” The host agency said it has “wrestled with finding the most efficient and[…]
Read More »Hilton has forged a partnership with Peloton, detailing plans to roll out the fitness company’s digitally connected exercise bikes across its entire portfolio of brands in the U.S. Hilton plans to roll out Peloton exercise bikes across its entire portfolio of brands in the U.S. Photo Credit: Hilton Hilton CEO[…]
Read More »Family travel is back, and many are determined to travel with their loved ones within the next year, according to a study by the Family Travel Association. The 2022 U.S. Family Travel Survey was published by the FTA this month in collaboration with the New York University School of Professional[…]
Read More »United Airlines has launched a partnership with Jaguar to drive late-arriving MileagePlus Premier members to connecting flights. The chauffeured transfers along the tarmac begin this month at Chicago O’Hare and will be available in United’s Denver, Houston, Newark, Washington Dulles, San Francisco and Los Angeles hubs by the end of[…]
Read More »Despite high inflation and a slowing global economy, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta remains optimistic about the company’s continued progress, telling analysts that the hospitality sector’s fundamentals remain “pretty strong.” In the third quarter, the company surpassed 2019 levels for revenue per available room (RevPAR) for the first time since the[…]
Read More »Alaska Airlines has exercised an option for the purchase of 52 Boeing 737 Max aircraft between 2024 and 2027. The planes will augment the 43 Max jets that Alaska plans to receive by the end of next year. The airline is phasing out the last of the Airbus A320s that[…]
Read More »That leisure travel has well outpaced the return of group and business travel is, at this point, a universally acknowledged pandemic-era truth. What is not yet known is whether the new normal will mean leisure remains the larger share of the travel pie going forward. What is clear, however, is[…]
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It is estimated that the economic spill derived from tourism in Mexico during the celebration of the Day of the Dead, from October 28 to November 2, 2022, will be $1.8 billion. According to Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marques, the arrival of 2.1 million tourists to hotels is[…]
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