16+ hour, 5+ min ago  (292+ words) Air New Zealand's Tech-Bred CEO on AI and the Limits of the Machine Skift First read is on us. Get unlimited access with Skift Pro. Unlock your next read An AI-powered airline is a fine ambition " but it won't touch…...

20+ hour, 32+ min ago  (147+ words) Grab says it isn't competing with the region's travel platforms. But what it is building may be more disruptive than direct competition. The Singapore-headquartered superapp Grab says it's not a travel company " but it keeps adding travel products." This spring,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (145+ words) The marketing from luxury's top brands has blurred into one seamless, forgettable product. The operators pulling away are the ones who figured out that friction is the point. To build the ice luge, the general manager got into a helicopter…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (297+ words) Dennis Schaal is Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (129+ words) Gulf travel advisories are moving. War-risk insurance authorization isn't " and that's the constraint that controls when European airlines come back. The UK government Thursday lifted its travel warning for travel to the UAE, Qatar and parts of Saudi Arabia following…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (146+ words) There's progress to point to, but even the CEO says it will get worse before it gets better. Whitbread used its first-quarter results Thursday to argue that its strategy is working, pushing back against an activist investor trying to force…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (258+ words) Peden Doma Bhutia is Skift's Asia Editor. She anchors Skift's coverage across Asia and the Middle East. She has been a journalist for 18 years, of which she's spent the last 11 years covering travel, aviation and hospitality. In her last outing…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (138+ words) Jet Blue is shrinking in the New York area as it focuses more on Fort Lauderdale, where executives see greater opportunity following Spirit's collapse. Jet Blue is expanding transcontinental flying out of Fort Lauderdale, adding more daily business class service…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (175+ words) For an industry that spent 13 years arguing that passenger rights needed to be watered down, it's a rather bumpy landing. After more than a decade of lobbying, legal wrangling, and political trench warfare, Europe's airlines have finally got their answer…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (220+ words) This is the trade independent hotels keep making: a major hotel group's reach in exchange for a fee and a fight to stay distinctive. Palisociety thinks the math works. Marriott's Design Hotels has signed 16 Palisociety hotels across nine U. S. destinations in…...