Hilton and Navan have launched a direct booking connection that skips distribution middlemen, giving the hotel group more control over retailing. It's an early step in a broader corporate travel push to overhaul how road warriors book hotels.
Airlines are betting that they can hold onto their pricing power even as the price of fuel decreases due to strong demand and fewer competitors in the industry.
The centenary deadline may have slipped, but Şeker's broader point is that Turkish Airlines is now big enough that the number of aircraft it operates matters less than what it does with them.