Articles tagged “mergers and acquisitions”

Good morning from Skift. It's Tuesday, April 12, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

JetBlue's surprise bid for Spirit upended the airline industry and could derail Spirit's planned merger with Frontier Airlines. Analysts question whether Spirit is a match for JetBlue, but JetBlue's leaders insist it is and say the combined airline would lower fares.

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, April 6, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Does JetBlue's surprise bid for Spirit make sense for the carrier's network? At first glance, Wall Street didn't think so.

Lodging startup Casai, which is like a Sonder for Latin America, has bought a vendor of smart home tech. The deal is one of the more notable examples of hospitality companies trying to secure their supply lines.

Other than at exception-to-the-rule Google, metasearch has been on a downward spiral in vacation rentals for years. HomeToGo is turning itself into a series of booking sites instead, which just might work in that holiday home sector.

Amadeus had signaled it was considering acquisitions to expand its tools. This deal will help it compete in serving budget carriers with technology.

Intercity bus travel isn't glamorous. But at least one company will drag this sector online and make piles of money along the way.

Intercity bus booking may not be glamorous, but there could be a lot of opportunity in helping the multi-billion-dollar sector go online.

Who needs telephones in hotel guest rooms? Hotels can instead have guests make and receive calls via their mobile apps. That's one of the outcomes made possible by this acquisition of the vendor Criton by Nonius.