Dennis Schaal Archives

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 interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.

Airlines

While Other Airlines Hand Out iPads, Delta Chooses Windows Phones for Flight Attendants

Delta will argue that Windows Phones provided the mobile point of sale offering that its flight attendants require, as unsexy as the choice was. Let's see how it all works out for Delta the contrarian (at least in this choice).

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Low-Cost Carrier WestJet Launches Fares with Premium Perks

Branded fares, such as WestJet's new Plus option, have really caught on among airlines globally, giving leisure and business travelers more choice in the services they want to pay for.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Tourism

Saggy Pants Bans on Upswing as Second NJ Beach Town Mull Restrictions

Saggy pants bans touch tourism and also people wanting to just walk or ride around the nation's cities in their everyday lives. Why is it that some legislators and their constituents have such distaste for others who don't look or dress the way they do? The bans do indeed have racist overtones.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Google Maps Integration Leaves Out Waze's Speed Trap Alerts

Google is all grown up now and won't take chances on integrating Waze's reports about police speed traps into Google Maps. That takes some of the life and authenticity out of the Waze community.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Hyped Travel Startup Hopper Does Everything, Except Actually Launch

Technology aside, will travelers care about Hopper if they ever see a product after six years of development? If you have patience in excess, then stay tuned.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

SkiftX

Theme Park Visits Under Attack by Video Games and the Internet

Theme parks may be able to increase revenue by hiking admission and entertainment costs once visitors are inside the parks, but the theme parks will be losers in the end if they don't find a way to win back their core youth audience.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Hotels

Priceline Hotels Pro is the App William Shatner Isn't Talking About

Priceline Hotels Pro may become the next version of, or a twist on, Express Deals. Priceline shows the price up-front and identifies the handful of the hotels in the mix to give travelers additional confidence in where they might stay. But, there is enough wiggle room for the hotels to participate behind a Pro app without diminishing their brands.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Government Travelers to Get Steep Airfare Discounts with New City Pair Program

Federal government jobs have great benefits, including the ability to travel for work at mind-boggling airfare discounts.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

JetBlue Likes Airline Mergers, Just Not for Itself

With the American and US Airways merger hitting some turbulence, JetBlue becomes an even more attractive takeover target. But, although the new American must deal with a regulatory brushback pitch, the prospects for its merger are far from dead.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

CEO Chat Cancelled and Then Sabre Shuffles Top Leadership

Private company Sabre must be taking a financial beating behind the scenes as CEO Gilliland's exit was carried out in a very clumsy manner. Is there trouble in IPO land with owners TPG and Silver Lake getting very impatient about their own exits?

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago