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Last year: revenue uncertainty. This year: fuel cost uncertainty. Whatever the challenge, Delta keeps finding a way through. But with a potential $2 billion fuel hit looming, the pressure is building. Can Delta stay ahead of the latest shock — or is this one different? We break it down in this week’s feature story.

Despite high fuel prices adding billions of dollars in additional expenses for airlines, Delta is still cautiously optimistic about 2026.

The war on Iran has nearly doubled jet-fuel costs, and carriers wasted no time passing those along to us.

Nearly 20 airline leadership changes in recent months. So we wrote them a fictional group chat. Because at this point, why not.

You can learn a lot about a company's AI ambitions by looking through their job listings.

Travel companies aren’t facing a new AI gatekeeper — they’re facing several. Now the infrastructure is being built across Amazon, Meta, and Google, and each works differently. 

AI-powered impersonation is outpacing most organizations’ safeguards. For the events industry, where large payments, compressed timelines, and digital communication intersect, deepfake scams are an operational risk.

Travel companies betting on the premium boom may tend to view post-Covid wealth creation as an immutable fact. But a protracted economic shock would test the durability of the trend and their strategies. 

Tourism has always counted visitors. This could help tourism count the environmental cost.

Europe's hotel investment market had a strong year, with Northern Europe and upscale properties winning big. But fresh geopolitical uncertainty means the good times may already be under pressure.

Gulf carriers continue to offer some of the lowest fares between Europe and Asia, but as the Iran war drags on, the lure of a good deal has to be weighed against the risks of flying through the region.