Skift Take
It will be interesting to see whether American and United can continue discounting to the degree they've been doing now that Hurricane Harvey has added vigor to already-rising fuel prices. With the likes of little Norwegian Air bringing its low fares across the Atlantic, this promises to likewise raise blood pressure levels in legacy airline boardrooms.
We apologize for not predicting in these pages last week that the longtime CEO of Expedia Inc. would secretly answer job interview questions at Uber the previous weekend, leave $200 million in stock options on the table, and pose for selfies with Arianna Huffington and Uber founder Travis Kalanick as the ride-sharing company's new chief executive by Wednesday.
Sorry, that wasn't in our forecasting bag of tricks. But we will be analyzing the developments on Thursday in a Skift call if you want to join us.
After a week of nonstop news like that, we admit we don't precisely know how everything this week will turn out. The way things are going, perhaps the Priceline Group CEO will take over the corner office suite at Airbnb, and maybe Alibaba will buy TripAdvisor. You never know.
As major airlines try to get their flight schedules through Houston back on track following Hurricane Harvey, and gas prices spike because refineries got swamped, we'll take a look at other stuff going on this week. As always, you can view all of our Travel This Week posts here.
Will the Cheap Fares Last?
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