Travel Advisories Are Back and the Gulf Is Out With Flight Deals and Easier Visas
Gulf hotels were already struggling before this month's headlines. A hoped-for recovery may get pushed out further.
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American Airlines Offset Half Its Fuel Costs With Higher Fares, But Cuts Profit Outlook
Pricing power has emerged as a major theme of second-quarter earnings as airlines look to make their pricing gains permanent.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi23 Jul
Southwest’s New Fees and Fare Hikes Offset an $889 Million Fuel Bill
Southwest said it will focus more on enhancing its network, products, and pricing as part of an effort to further strengthen its profitability.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi22 Jul
Fuel Costs Wipe Out Alaska Airlines’ Profit — Nearly $500 Million in Losses
Surging fuel costs hit Alaska particularly hard this year. But the carrier is betting that it can turn its profitability around with higher travel demand — and even catch up to Delta and United.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi22 Jul
Emirates Rebuilds to 92% Capacity, Even as the Iran War Grinds On
Emirates has rebuilt faster than initially forecast, and faster than the war itself has resolved. Sir Tim Clark's well-worn crisis-management playbook is being tested in real time — and it's holding so far.
Skift Airlines•Gordon Smith22 Jul
A New Class of Buy Now, Pay Later: From Checkout Utility to Enterprise Growth Lever
Flexible financing is becoming more than a way to complete a travel purchase. For airlines and other travel brands, the next opportunity is using financing to support brand equity and profits.
Skift Airlines•ClarityPay + Skift22 Jul
Emirates’ Sir Tim Clark on Retirement: ‘It’s Not Time’
Clark insists Emirates is ready for life after him, but his decision to stay on keeps one of aviation’s longest-running succession stories alive.
Skift Airlines•Gordon Smith21 Jul
Riyadh Air Waited Years for New Planes. Now Six Have Arrived in 30 Days
For a startup with no legacy fleet to fall back on, delivery delays were painful. But taking such a large number of aircraft in just a month brings its own headaches.
Skift Airlines•Gordon Smith20 Jul
JetBlue Wins Spirit’s LaGuardia Slots for $58.5 Million — Below Spirit’s Own Estimate
JetBlue’s winning bid comes in well below Spirit's $86.7 million valuation of its LaGuardia slots.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi20 Jul
Europe May Finally Charge International Flights for Emissions — U.S. and China Get a Pass
Associations are unhappy with Europe’s plans to make the aviation industry pay more for its international emissions — for different reasons. One side argues proposals don’t go far enough, and the other says they shouldn’t exist at all.
Skift Airlines•Tasmin Lockwood17 Jul
Allegiant, Long an OTA Holdout, Signs an Exclusive Deal With Expedia
A shrinking number of airlines shun online travel agency distribution. Allegiant's deal with Expedia Group means it abandoned its direct-distribution-only strategy — one that it touted as advantageous as late as February 2026.
Skift Airlines•Dennis Schaal17 Jul
Delta Adds LAX-Manila Route as the Battle for West Coast and Asia Heats Up
Delta is focusing international growth out of the West Coast, looking to become the dominant carrier out of LAX.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi17 Jul
Brussels Airlines Taps ITA Airways Exec for CEO
Incoming Brussels Airlines CEO Lorenza Maggio oversaw ITA Airways’ merger into Lufthansa Group, which was one of the fastest integrations in the company’s history.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi16 Jul
Say Goodbye to $9 Tickets. Higher Fares Are Here to Stay, United CEO Says
United CEO Scott Kirby argues that surging fuel costs aren’t entirely responsible for higher airfares. Instead airlines are capitalizing on more pricing power driven by ballooning operating costs and a readjustment in domestic capacity.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi16 Jul
Air India Rebuilds Its App With In-House Booking, Payments, and AI
Yes, they made the app better and nicer! But the bigger story is that Air India is angling for a future where your flight, hotel and cab all get booked (and fixed, if something goes wrong) as one thing, not three separate headaches.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia16 Jul
JetBlue Ties Loyalty Points to Flight Financing
The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to finance spending — and letting customers earn points for the privilege of paying interest.
Skift Airlines•Adriana Lee15 Jul
United Airlines Raises Outlook, Higher Fares Offset $6 Billion in Added Fuel Expense
United is betting that it will continue to see high travel demand in the second half of 2026 as it stares down at an additional $6 billion in fuel costs.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi15 Jul
Who Gets Anko’s Old Job? Contenders for the Next SAS CEO
Van der Werff has six months to hand over the keys, and by the time he does, the people choosing his successor may not be the people sitting on the board today.
Skift Airlines•Gordon Smith14 Jul
Frontier Airlines to Add Starlink, Catching Up to Premium Airlines
Typically, airlines like Frontier don’t have in-flight Wi-Fi. But as premium products continue to fuel airline industry profits, Frontier is opting to install Starlink.
Skift Airlines•Meghna Maharishi14 Jul
Accor and IndiGo Launch Loyalty Exchange — Experiences and More Links Are Next
The fact that it took Accor and IndiGo more than a year to roll out their loyalty partnership suggests there is a larger ambition to this than just swapping points.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia13 Jul