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.

Hotels

11 Reasons Why The World Of Hotel Booking Is About To Change Forever

This agreement between InterContinental Hotels, and Expedia and Booking.com is game-changing not for its short-term impact, but for the more far-reaching reverberations, and new regulatory actions that it will ultimately lead to.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Priceline's Rentalcars.com Could Be the Next Big Thing

Rentalcars.com won't bring in the mega wealth that Booking.com has done because of the disparate nature of the car and hotel businesses. But, there is a whole wide world out there, and Rentalcars.com, with Priceline's resources and experience at its disposal, has the potential to be a huge player on the global stage.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

11 Business Travel Terms We Love to Hate

My heart breaks when I witness leakage and a lack of compliance because it really complicates duty of care and risk management. Know what I mean?

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

The Coming Death of Business Travel As We Know It

American Express, other mega travel agencies and their corporate clients aren't going to be able to put the genie back in the bottle with badges and leader boards. There is a lot of turf-protection going on here.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Alaska Air Promises Power Plugs at Every Seat and Streaming Movies

As I write this, I'm flying US Airways in coach, and my laptop power has a little more than an hour left. If I were flying Alaska Airlines and had a power plug at my seat, I could finish th...

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Can the Airline Website of the Future be Powered by Travel Inspiration?

The mobile experience, both on smartphone and on tablet, is likely to be the website of the future, and airlines will need to strike a balance between helping dreamers dream and selling airline tickets.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Cruises

Another Carnival Shakeup: New Marketing Officer Tries to Right the Ship

It's not surprising that Carnival's new CEO would want his own, new chief marketing officer to deal with what looks to be a protracted brand crisis, given consumer perceptions and pressure from Congress. All hands on deck.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Virgin America CEO: Newark Flights Led the Way on First Ever Q2 Profit

There has been a lot of skepticism about whether Virgin America could turn itself into a profitable airline. It still faces tremendous competition and big-time challenges, but today's earnings announcement was a hopeful sign for an airline that a lot of people feel very good about.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

The Rather Half-Baked Idea to Sell Half an Airline Seat

We're not betting that selling half-seats will happen any time soon, but the idea is something worth sitting back and wishing for the next time you can smell what your seatmate had for dinner.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

Marriott Rewards Acknowledges Attempt to Hack Members' Accounts

Marriott and JetBlue have admitted that there were hack attempts; Expedia is reporting more credit card fraud, and HomeAway has been coping with an epidemic of phishing incidents. The state of online security and privacy is getting very dicey.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago