Airlines

Touted as a solution that brings travel retailing to network carrier airlines for their indirect distribution channel, discussions around the successful implementation of the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) lacks an essential element:...

WEX predicts a year of pushing boundaries to gain greater traveler choice and convenience.   It’s that time of year again - time to predict travel trends that will continue or emerge in the coming year. WEX Travel Payments Insights has...

Like many industries, the travel industry has its fair share of businesses that fail. In recent years and months, the airline industry in particular has seen a number of high-profile failures that have left travelers stranded and travel companies left...

Travelers flying to less mainstream destinations, or flying into smaller airports on budget airlines, often have a challenge getting directly to their destination. To ease this situation, and for other reasons, airlines have made interline or codeshare deals with each...

Can it really be ten years since the end of the last recession for the U.S. travel industry and the start of a “historic burst in travel demand felt by segments across the travel industry”? In the 2019 US Travel...

Air travel has seen a huge shift over the past decade; from the days of exclusive luxury airline travel with Concorde, to the emergence of mass market low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair. Flying is often the quickest and,...

2018 will soon come to a close, and several groups recently released reports on the year’s trends as well as deep dives into 2017 year-end data. There is much to celebrate—the volume of travelers, and the revenue they generate, is...

Delta, American and United are selling basic no-frills seats. Budget airlines are moving into major hubs and selling add-on services. What’s happening with the airline industry? In “2017 Commercial Aviation Trends” Jonathan Ketzel and Bryan Terry report, “The once clear-cut...

British holidaymakers jet off to far flung destinations Since the low-cost revolution back in the late nineties and early noughties, which at one point saw more than 50 low cost airlines operating across Europe, British travellers have been jetting off...

There are currently 29 low cost airlines operating across Europe, with Ryanair, the largest in terms of passenger numbers, expected to carry a staggering 119m travelers this year. Low cost airlines (LCCs) are so popular that of the 10 largest...