Skift Take
Travel companies have an economic self-interest in reversing the travel ban and maintaining the relatively free flow of visitors. But, in the current political climate, they obviously feel that the issues involved are important enough to risk stepping into the line of fire.
At least eight travel or transportation companies have joined about 120 other technology companies in a court filing opposed to the Trump administration's travel ban for seven Muslim-majority countries.
A ninth company, Expedia, filed its own declaration last week seeking to upend the immigration and travel ban.
The travel companies signing-on to the amicus curiae brief [embedded below] in support of the suit by Washington and Minnesota states to overturn the ban are Airbnb, Hipmunk, Lyft, SpaceX, Tesla, TripAdvisor, Uber and Yelp. These companies are not parties to the litigation but expressed their support for the plaintiffs seeking to upen
