Articles tagged “europe”

Roughly 40% of the Lufthansa Group looks in fine shape, which is another way of saying most of it doesn't, and the mainline airline is where the repair work has barely started.

Wildfires in France and Spain forced evacuations near popular tourist destinations like Bordeaux and Madrid. EU officials say risks could spread to other parts of the continent.

Three of the world’s biggest hotel groups have launched debit cards in the UK and nowhere else. The reason has little to do with loyalty strategy.

The two companies tout 430 million loyalty members between them. The test is how many actually book.

Europe faces record-high temperatures just as its peak travel season ramps up.

Gulf travel advisories are moving. War-risk insurance authorization isn’t — and that’s the constraint that controls when European airlines come back.

Most hospitality groups are shedding real estate. a&o is picking it up at distressed prices — a contrarian move that works up until the deals, or the lenders, run dry.

The visa queue will clear. The question is whether leisure demand comes back with it.

The first negative reading of 2026 isn't a collapse — it's a rebalancing. Asia-Pacific is gaining what the transatlantic is losing.

It wasn't all that long ago that Iberia was fighting for survival. Today, it boasts Ryanair-like profitability. The Spanish flag carrier has transformed itself from a loss-making legacy laggard into a margin machine. How did Iberia pull it off — and can the success continue? We explore a great comeback in this week's feature story.