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Skift Take: Ordering more widebodies would allow American to invest in more international growth — a key market that has fueled the profits of chief rivals Delta and United. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Airlines across the world have been cutting capacity and raising airfares to keep up with higher fuel costs. But even as travel is becoming more expensive, consumers still want to spend. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Transportation is the main problem. Progress in emission reductions at the World Cup would come from concentrating future tournaments in single countries.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Vrbo and Expedia are seizing an obvious opportunity in vacation rental sponsored listings. Airbnb will get there eventually too. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Each Gulf hub airport converts sovereign wealth into a different theory of national relevance. Saudi Arabia is about to test whether aviation can convert something heavier — national ambition itself — into a destination economy. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Travel leaders don't need more staid panels. They need to leave an event knowing what to do next. Every session at Skift Global Forum 2026 ends with a call you can take back to your team.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: IHG’s Middle East hotels are filling up with GCC and Indian travelers, but the European market hasn’t come back.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: MakeMyTrip is trying to answer three questions at once: can it stay relevant as AI reshapes travel discovery, can a string of small acquisitions build real value rather than just organizational sprawl, and does a domestic listing finally make sense after 16 years on Nasdaq?Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Strong summer demand and weakened rivals are buying Cathay room to absorb the fuel spike – the test is whether that cover holds once the peak fades.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Willie Walsh has acknowledged that the industry's flagship climate target may need to move, but a revised timeline will only mean something if it comes with binding commitments, not another round of aspirational pledges.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: While it's not clear the World Cup's tourism impact will live up to the hype, federal data shows the hospitality sector is staffing up ahead of the tournament.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: We heard from more than two dozen of travel's most important tech leaders — the people actually deploying AI solutions every day. Here's what the industry still needs to get right.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: With Brevistay, Ixigo closes the last major gap in its travel stack. Its twin bets on AI infrastructure hint at a larger goal of keeping trip planning inside its ecosystem, rather than letting it migrate to ChatGPT.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Raising taxes is easy — actually reducing visitor numbers is the problem Amsterdam hasn't solved.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Connectivity has become a foundational layer of the travel experience. As the smartphone becomes the control point for travel, reliable connection is becoming less about convenience and more about trust.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Travel is the only major industry getting hit from both directions at once: AI search volumes are exploding without converting while total AI token bills internally are rising. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: CEO Sébastien Bazin said an Ennismore IPO is "one of four or five" possible fates for the lifestyle joint venture. In M&A-speak, that means Accor's board hasn't decided yet.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: The electric and hybrid plane dream is alive, but the funding model that gets it there still needs to be figured out.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: First-timers spend more per trip. Repeat visitors spend less. But the math still favors loyalty.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: India's two biggest airlines spent the last few years expanding aggressively abroad. IndiGo leased wide-body aircraft for the first time. Air India was looking to rebuild into a world-class global carrier. Both are now in retreat, at least temporarily, from some of those ambitions.Read the Complete Story On Skift