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EasyJet’s New Air-Rail Deal and 11 Other Top Travel Stories This Week
In Skift’s top travel stories this week, EasyJet partnered with Deutsche Bahn on combination tickets, Southwest sued Skiplagged, Sabre said it ha a chance of beating pre-pandemic margins, and a downsized regional airline plans to relaunch.
Angel Adegbesan |
Southwest’s Expanded Partnership Brings Bookings to the Sabre Standard
The newly expanded partnership between Southwest Airlines and Sabre GDS is now live, bringing the airline to a higher operating level via Sabre: a boon for corporate travel managers and travel management companies industry-wide.
Southwest Business + Skift |
Sponsored Did Kiwi Figure Out How to Hack Southwest for Flight Information?
Airlines have complained about the hidden costs of online travel agency web-scraping for years, but Southwest takes that sensitivity to a much higher strategic level. Kiwi apparently is adept at out-maneuvering Southwest's page-scraping roadblocks so the courts will have to sort it all out.
Dennis Schaal |
Southwest Lawsuit Alleges Skiplagged and Kiwi Collude to Deceive Flyers
The smart money has Southwest prevailing in this lawsuit against Skiplagged, given the airlines's 17-year history of beating back such alleged interlopers. On the other hand, when it came to an Orbitz lawsuit, Skiplagged knew how to bob and weave.
Dennis Schaal |
Corporate Travel’s Stark Reality Versus the Delusions of Airlines
Deloitte has taken the pulse of corporate America, and the 150 travel managers it surveyed are a lot more cautious than airlines would have you believe.
Matthew Parsons |
Federal Aid Saved U.S. Airlines From the Worst of the Pandemic But Was It a Success?
U.S. airlines avoided broad bankruptcies and cuts with the record $74 billion in government Covid-19 aid. But the relief was industry-specific and left out a lot of other sectors, including hotels and restaurants. That has meant a bumpy national economic recovery.
Edward Russell |
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Southwest Airlines Faces Hiring Crunch as Flights Ramp Up
U.S. Airlines Are Failing Passengers This Summer: It Could Have Been Worse
U.S. airlines took tens of billions in government bailouts. Now, many are having trouble delivering basic services to their consumers. It is a bad look, but it does not mean the bailouts were the wrong idea. Whether you like it or not, airlines are special. People rely on them, and the government had no choice.
Brian Sumers |
Flight Discounter Skiplagged Asks Federal Court to Tell Southwest Airlines to Back Off
Notorious litigator Southwest Airlines is targeting a sometimes-legally agile Skiplagged. Instead of offering Southwest fare information for hidden-city flights, Skiplagged may find that those Southwest fares have gone missing.
Dennis Schaal |