American Airlines is beginning its shift to a revenue-based loyalty program, first with mileage accrual and then with spending requirements for elite status qualification next year.

Corporate travel industry professionals in the Seattle area joke that it's incestuous, but they're not totally kidding. Maybe it's something in the coffee. The latest personnel development has...

No matter what U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin decides, the outcome will be a win for the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines proposed merger.

The U.S. hotel industry ended 2009 with the lowest room revenue since 2004 and the biggest drop in revenue per available room since the data has been tracked, according to the annual Hotel Operating...

DOT: Air Travel Capacity To Triple By 2024

The U.S. airline industry during the quarter ended Sept. 30 reversed deep losses from a year earlier to achieve a banner performance. Airline executives pointed to mergers, conservative capacity...

Universal Air Travel Plan is ramping up its efforts to secure more hotels as merchants in its centralized payment network, embarking on a plan to use merchant acquirers to supplement individual direct...

The House of Representatives voted against cuts for subsidies to Amtrak, which operates key business-travel rail routes between Washington, D.C., and Boston.

The U.S. hotel industry is scaling back capital expenditures to their lowest levels in years, although industry analysts said travelers are unlikely to see any drastic amenity cuts as a result.

Alitalia and Travelport renewed a global "full-content agreement" bit.ly/itvUW6 . The multi-year deal provides to Galileo- and Worldspan-connected travel agencies all of the carrier's fares...