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American Airlines has spent the past year insisting its earnings gap with Delta and United would begin to close. Instead, it may be getting wider.

The proposed merger represents United CEO Scott Kirby’s high appetite for ambitious and large deals.

Travel search is auctions stacked on auctions: everyone demands fairness from the layer above while selling position to the layer below.

With the possibility of lounges, Southwest is betting that it can capture more premium customers and boost engagement with its loyalty program.

As wildfires grow more frequent and severe, insurers are no longer pricing risk by location alone — they’re underwriting based on how resilient a property is, pushing operators to firm up their hotels.

Selling your brand to a major group and staying on to run the hotels is an unusual move. A year in, the distribution lift is real. Whether Marriott can now grow CitizenM beyond its original backer is the open question.

Fewer orders than the hype promised, and most of the big money spent by companies that don't fly a single passenger.

Nearly every travel company now claims to be deploying AI. Far fewer can show the outcome, and Europe's rules and languages make proof harder to reach than anywhere else. The Skift Data + AI Summit Europe is where leaders close that distance.

The world's most powerful passports are changing, and so is the balance of global travel.

Planners dread procurement, and procurement treats events like a hardware buy. A former Microsoft procurement director says the fix needs to come from both parties

American has made some capacity cuts, but they’re much more modest compared to that of its chief rivals Delta and United. Executives at the carrier said they were taking a more conservative approach to cuts due to volatility around fuel prices.

Wyndham Hotels reported second-quarter results, which were solid, but we wondered if it would be enough. Plus, hotel development news. (Note: Daily Lodging Report is on vacation until August 2.)