Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission will finalise its decision over the next few months, Booking said on Thursday....
...Meanwhile, Microsoft has faced months of wrangling from the UK’s CMA and the US Federal Trade Commission over its $75bn deal to buy Activision Blizzard while other regulators, including the EU, have cleared...
...However, Vestager’s imminent departure from that post to run for the presidency of the European Investment Bank is weighing heavily over Brussels regulators’ decision over the Booking-Etraveli deal, according...
...His vision for a renewal of Airbnb’s business model comes as the technology app faces pressure from policymakers worldwide over depleting housing stock in major cities....
...Booking Holdings shares rose on Friday after the travel group reported solid results and as its chief executive said the company was growing “substantially faster” than Airbnb in its non-hotel bookings....
...“We are looking at this on a daily basis, and there was no impact on bookings,” Lundgren said....
...Wennink said ASML was “providing input” to discussions between the US and Dutch governments over whether new sanctions might limit its ability to service its chipmaking equipment in China but that it expected...
...Average air fares across Europe were between 20 and 30 per cent higher over summer 2023 compared with 2019, according to EU data published in October....
...We reached the highest level of annual riders in our history, delivered over 700mn rides, and helped drivers take home over $8bn . . ....
...Accenture said demand for generative AI projects remained robust, with over $600mn in bookings during the quarter, taking total bookings in this area to $1.1bn during the first half of its financial year...
...But airlines have still faced questions over whether demand for travel can withstand the weak economic backdrop....
...The agents have in turn complained about Ryanair’s treatment of their customers, which has included forcing passengers booking through third-party websites to hand over significant personal information in...
...But since Lyft has only just settled a lawsuit over the charges it levied on New York drivers, it would be a very brave strategy. What about expenses?...
...Booking.com is haggling with the European Commission over a planned takeover of Swedish online flight-booking company Etraveli....
...He says using travel management services — rather than relying on employees to make their own plans and reservations — gives companies greater control over bookings, and more granular information on who...
...The most immediate risk when it comes to regulating junk fees in the US seems to be that over-enthusiasm to clamp down makes a mess....
...The Israeli military identified a 20-year-old female staff sergeant as having been killed....
...Even as the number of bookings for rides and food delivery have increased, admin costs have fallen....
...December and family bookings later in the month....
...The threat of government competition has long hung over Trainline, which takes a commission on ticket sales but draws on the same open-access database as the booking apps of other railway companies....
...Apart from booking a profit, SBB in effect had swapped unsecured debt now yielding in the mid-teens for secured loans with a 9 per cent yield to maturity, said Edoardo Gili at Green Street....
...Airlines have reaped bumper profits over the past six months on strong demand for travel at high ticket prices, but have faced persistent questions over whether bookings will weaken into the northern hemisphere...
...Costs excluding fuel rose 22 per cent to £5.7bn over the same period....
...Davies says that their assistant roadie Mal Evans, who wasn’t even a big Beatles fan, supposedly came up with the name “Sergeant Pepper”....
...“I need the Christmas trade to arrive big time and not just on Christmas Eve,” he said, explaining he had little visibility over demand as he relied on walk-ins....
International Edition