Saturday's crash of a Sriwijaya Air jet was Indonesia's third in six years, raising red flags. The latest tragedy has investigators looking at myriad potential causes, even cutbacks due to the pandemic. -Tom Lowry
10/01/2021 06:00:39

Flight attendants and other passengers should have to put up with deplorable behavior. Kudos to Alaska Air for banning unruly passengers. -Dennis Schaal
09/01/2021 13:21:45

It appears that isolation has been key to Cuba's success up to this point. Opening up cities seems like a risky bet, despite the other precautions it has taken. -Jason Clampet
09/01/2021 12:00:37

This was a big week for tourism lessons, whether from Hawaii or African safari lodges. In other top stories this week, Skift covered flight attendants objecting to rowdy passengers, testing requirements for flights, and Wyndham Destinations' acquisition of Travel + Leisure. -Dennis Schaal
09/01/2021 10:00:41

A Sriwijaya Air plane thought to have 62 people on board lost contact after taking off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Saturday and rescuers said suspected debris had been found in the sea off the city. The Boeing 737-500, en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan, lost contact shortly after taking off just after 2.30 […]
09/01/2021 08:07:21

The already tall task of finding a buyer at an acceptable price (to the Trump Organization) for the Trump International Hotel in D.C. got even more difficult now that its brokerage firm appears to have dropped the company as a client. -Cameron Sperance
08/01/2021 15:45:25

The hotel industry's improved unemployment rate is due more to people fleeing the sector (thus, fewer people unemployed) rather than jobs gained. -Cameron Sperance
08/01/2021 11:45:34

Boris Johnson and his peers have dithered for months to develop a competent policy at points of arrival. Now that things are worse than they've ever been in the UK we finally have some action. -Jason Clampet
08/01/2021 07:00:09

Since May, Bastian Neumann-Semerow has been filming a video series for the airline on all aspects of the Covid-ready flying experience. Make no mistake, it’s an envious job. -Matthew Parsons
08/01/2021 02:00:06

This developer is breaking the tradition in hotel design, and going after an unpredictable market. What are the odds of this working out? -Matthew Parsons
08/01/2021 02:00:05