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Dennis Schaal

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.

Hotels

Expedia's eLong Creates $100 Million Fund for Mobile Tech

eLong is putting its money, specifically $100 million of it, precisely where the company believes its future is, in mobile hotel technology. This initiative has certain parallels with what Concur is doing in using its own, larger investment fund, to encourage the development of travel startups doing interesting things.
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Airlines

American and US Airways Lawyers Lay Out the Case for Merger, Again

The merger would clearly benefit American Airlines and US Airways, and the best argument that can be made for it is that it could lead to a more stable airline industry. But, the airlines defy belief when they argue that it would lead to lower fares and more connecting flights.
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Airlines

Reasons Why U.S. Government Wants to Block American-US Airways Merger

Officials from American Airlines and US Airways may have blundered big-time when they publicly stated that their respective airlines could indeed operate independently. This deal looked so bad from an anti-competition perspective that even the attorneys general from Texas and Arizona, where AA and US Air are headquartered, respectively, joined the suit.
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Airlines

The Cute Armrest Band that May Help Get a Snooze in Coach

Airline seats in coach are getting ever-more cramped as carriers leave the legroom to passengers purchasing higher-fare tickets. Anything that would make long-haul flights more comfortable to non-elite flyers would almost be like manna from heaven.
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Hotels

Hotwire Replaces President as Priceline Makes Gains

A changing of the guard at Hotwire was inevitable given the challenges it has faced all year due to Priceline's advertising and overall gains. Hotwire's own advertising wasn't effective enough to blunt the onslaught.
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