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Travel Again Podcast Interview with Richard Hunt

Travel Again Advisory joined The Points Guy and the Electronic Payments Coalition in Las Vegas for the Money20/20 USA Event . We spent...

New bill bleeds Las Vegas tourism dry

Las Vegas Review-Journal (April 13, 2024) - Las Vegas and tourism go hand in hand. Millions of visitors travel here each year to...

U.K. Regulator's Preliminary Finding: Amex GBT-CWT Deal Would 'Lessen Competition'

BTN - (November 6, 2024) - The merger between American Express Global Business Travel and CWT "has the potential to substantially lessen...

Protect Your Points

Proposed legislation in the U.S. House and Senate could devastate the future of credit card points including cash back and travel...

Boeing Union Votes to End Strike

WSJ ($) - (November 5, 2024) - Machinists to return to factories after ratifying contract with a 38% pay raise Boeing ’s machinists...

Tech Giants See AI Bets Starting to Pay Off

WSJ ($) - (November 1, 2024) - Microsoft, Google and Amazon report strong growth in cloud revenue, but warn of increased spending Some of...

Expedia Extends Its Loyalty Program to Microsoft Bing Travel Users

Skift ($) (Novmber 1, 2024) -- Expedia Group several months ago paused the global rollout of its One Key loyalty program beyond the U.S....

MGM Resorts Sees Healthy Vegas Demand Despite Heat Wave Hit, F1 Race Slowdown

MGM Resorts sees strong demand at its Las Vegas resorts continuing through year-end, despite minor performance hiccups in the third...

Southwest Airlines Ends Feud With Activist Investor Elliott

WSJ ($) (October 24, 2024) -- Southwest Airlines struck a truce with Elliott Investment Management, giving the activist a significant...

Boeing Machinists Reject Contract, Extending Strike

WSJ ($) (October 24, 2024) - Union workers voted 64% against new labor deal and will extend six-week strike Boeing ’s largest union...

The Dream Deal: Uber Exploring Buying Expedia, Says FT

Skift ($) (October 16, 2024) - In what will be every travel industry dealmaker’s wet dream come true, Uber has explored buying Expedia in...

American rebuilds sales staff, trying to win back agencies and corporates

Travel Weekly -- (October 7, 2024) DALLAS -- American Airlines, fighting to regain corporate and travel agency-generated market share ,...

What We Know About Hurricane Helene’s Destruction So Far

NYT (September 29th, 2024, Updated daily) Helene tore through the Southeast after hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, becoming the deadliest...

Carnival Corp. continues streak of record revenue

Travel Weekly (October 4, 2024) -- The CEO of the world's largest cruise company has gotten creative in describing his company's...

FAA ceases increased oversight of United Airlines

Travel Weekly (October 4, 2024) -- The federal agency had dispatched extra staffers to United facilities in March to review the...

Spirit Airlines Explores Bankruptcy Filing

WSJ ($) (October 3, 2024) - Spirit Airlines has been in discussions with bondholders over the terms of a potential bankruptcy filing in...

Frontier removed from Sabre GDS

Frontier (October 1, 2024) - Frontier content is no longer available in Sabre as of October 1, 2024. Frontier values its partnerships...

OpenAI’s new o1 model: A Generative AI Powerhouse for the Travel Industry

TLDR: On September 12th, OpenAI, the maker of the GPT series of large language models (LLMs) introduced a new generation of models called...

It’s Time for Southwest’s $4 Billion Plan to Sink or SwimCF on Sep 30, 2024 - 46 Comments

CrankyFlier (September 30, 2024) - Southwest revealed the full details of its plan — called Southwest. Even Better. — to fix itself at...

Electronic Warfare Spooks Airlines, Pilots and Air-Safety Officials

WSJ ($) (September 23, 2024) American Airlines Capt. Dan Carey knew his cockpit equipment was lying to him when an alert began blaring...

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