United CEO Scott Kirby said he still believes a merger with American would be beneficial but that the Fort Worth carrier’s management is the main obstacle.
Delta is not hiking fees on its credit cards even as its competitors continue to increase annual fees and roll out premium travel credit cards in an increasingly saturated market.
With most potential buyers citing AI disruption risk and walking away, Long Lake's $6.3 billion acquisition of AmexGBT is the most contrarian bet in travel right now.
Expedia's outgoing chief financial officer said during its most recent earnings call that investments in its B2B unit could pressure margins near term. First Tiqets, and now CarTrawler, could be the investments he had in mind.
Delta's language shift, from "goal" to "aspiration," may sound like semantics, but it signals a broader retreat from hard climate commitments at a moment when the airline industry's 2050 net-zero pledge is already under strain.