The June visitor stats are out on Compete.com. While the growth in airline direct is not meteoric, it is in fact on the rise. If only airline stocks and market caps would follow! LEAD in GROWTH over MAY: CO/UA LEAD in YOY GROWTH: AA LEAD in Unique Visitors: Southwest LEAD in Market Cap: Southwest …
Compete’s June stats show that Airline Direct is on the rise Read More »
In the second of our “Smarter than a travel agent” series, we are going to look at the use of the top Online Travel Agency (OTA), Expedia. We are going to be consistent with yesterday’s blog and use the same itinerary, Tampa to London’s Gatwick airport, outbound on the 8th of July and returning on …
Smarter than a travel agent? OTA Series: Using Expedia Read More »
UPDATED – March 12, 2014 Well, in the world of travel distribution on the OTA side of the equation, if Travelocity was the “come home to papa” story, then Orbitz is the “child running as far away from the parents as possible” story. Well, at least one of its parents…. more on that later. Orbitz …
Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Orbitz (Updated March 2014) Read More »
Following our assessment yesterday of the distribution basics for an airline, we thought it would be interesting to look at the metrics that are used to gauge the relative power of companies in the public markets and see how they might relate to the power in the distribution game in travel. Here we use Market …
Distribution Basics: Who has the power? (corrected version) Read More »
When I first saw the promotion for this video, I thought it would be about “cookies” as we know and love them in the browser sense of the word. But turns out it is about the fattening kind. Upscale cream cookies that require refrigeration and the distribution company’s trucks that can’t accommodate their distribution for …
The other side of the distribution story: The Case of the New Cookie Read More »
No one is immune from mistakes. Whether it is totally unintentional, or whether you made an uninformed choice or you thought you were making the right decision, if you are wrong, it is really important to fess up and quickly. Yesterday on our Executive Girlfriends’ Group call, we had one of the first female pilots …
Entrepreneurial Tip #4 – Recover quickly after mistakes Read More »
