Meetings firm identifies cutting-edge tendencies
Vaccine availability has set the meetings business on the road to recovery, while regional gatherings reached by car remain ahead… Read More »
Clarify hotel reopening process, unions ask Ill. Senate
The Chicago Federation of Labor is beseeching Illinois lawmakers to end the “limbo” of tight limits on hotel convention attendance… Read More »
Wilton Rancheria tribe gets financing for Calif. casino
Construction on a $500 million casino-resort near Sacramento, Calif., is imminent, now that the Wilton Rancheria tribe has obtained funding… Read More »
Dallas complex to feature 500-room hotel-convention center
The $1 billion Sapphire Bay mixed-use project on Lake Ray Hubbard in Dallas will include a 500-room hotel and conference… Read More »
Basketball tourney gives bounce to Indy hotel trade
Next week’s Big 10 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are giving the struggling downtown hotel business in Indianapolis a shot… Read More »
Leisure travel expected to lead rebound through 2021
As search data indicate consumers are increasingly ready to fly, observers expect airlines’ focus on leisure destinations to continue through… Read More »
FAA testing anti-drone tech at 5 US airports
Airports in Washington, Alabama, New Jersey, New York and Ohio have been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to test… Read More »
Terminal upgrade planned for Dallas-Fort Worth airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport now plans to renovate the existing Terminal C while plans for the future Terminal F project… Read More »
Southwest extends Colo. service past the ski season
Southwest Airlines has extended through June 5 service from Denver to Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden, Colo., and Montrose… Read More »
Alaska adds new routes between Calif. and Mont.
Alaska Airlines is adding new seasonal routes between California and two Montana destinations. The airline will fly to Kalispell from… Read More »
Delta making investment to offset 2020 carbon emissions
Delta Air Lines is making significant investments to offset 2020 carbon emissions as a part of its ongoing efforts to… Read More »
FedEx exec discusses vaccines, carbon-neutral goal
FedEx President and COO Raj Subramaniam discussed how the company is transporting COVID-19 vaccines, including attaching a chip to every… Read More »
JetBlue is expanding into travel tech
JetBlue is looking to diversify beyond flights through expanding into a travel tech company to “future-proof,” says Eash Sundaram, JetBlue’s… Read More »
Frequent fliers ready to return to the skies
Many frequent fliers are looking forward to returning to traveling after being grounded due to the pandemic. “The rhythm is… Read More »
Saudi Arabia clears B737 MAX to resume operations
Saudi Arabia became the second country in the Gulf region to permit B737 MAX operations after the General Authority of… Read More »
Jet Airways denied old slots, new owner eyes Uzbek start-up
A revived Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) will not have recourse to airport slots it had held before its April… Read More »
New Caledonian CAA briefly attaches Air Vanuatu B737
Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) has reached an agreement with the New Caledonian civil aviation authority (Direction de l’Aviation Civile… Read More »
Hungary’s Wizz Air to open Palermo base in 2Q21
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) has announced the opening on June 1 of a new base in Palermo, Sicily, where it… Read More »
Delta Air Lines to cut more than half its focus cities
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) will reduce the number of its focus cities from five to just two,… Read More »
Bulgaria’s GullivAir gets the go-ahead for US plans
Bulgarian start-up GullivAir (G2, Sofia) has been awarded a Foreign Air Carrier Permit and Exemption Authority for a two-year period… Read More »
Vietnam Airlines to invest $433mn in Long Thanh airport
Cash-strapped Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi) proposes to inject nearly VND10 trillion dong (USD433 million) in infrastructure development at Long Thanh… Read More »
India’s GoAir takes $110mn bank credit line – report
GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int’l) has received an INR8 billion rupee (USD110 million) credit line from banks, designed to help it… Read More »
Flexible ACMI can help the airlines this summer – says ACC Aviation
Airlines holding worldwide AOCs with ‘go now’ capacity have the opportunity to diversify into flexible, short-term Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and… Read More »
Hawaiian names exec chefs to oversee in-flight menus
Hawaiian Airlines has appointed the owners of Honolulu’s MW Restaurant and Artizen as executive chefs, in charge of in-flight menus…. Read More »
Classic Vacations purchase signals upswing for upscale
Expedia Group has agreed to sell high-end trip provider Classic Vacations to the Najafi Companies, a private equity firm whose… Read More »
Hotels among targets as $300B awaits equity firms
Global private equity firms have accumulated more than $300 billion in their real estate funds, according to Preqin, positioning them… Read More »