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Photo Credit: Santosh Kumar, Booking.com's regional head for South Asia at the Skift India Intelligence Summit in Delhi in March 2026. Skift Booking.com wants to win over more Indian travelers, whether they’re traveling within the country or abroad. It also wants to sell business travel to small- and mid-sized companies and take charge of more of the booking and payment process. It faces a tough market, where local rivals, led by MakeMyTrip, dominate domestic travel.

United Airlines on Tuesday issued a disappointing earnings outlook for the fourth quarter due to continued high costs for jet fuel. It now expects adjusted earnings per share to range from $0.50 to $1.50, short of the $1.76 analysts expected. United said it expects fuel to average $4.80 a gallon, about $0.45 higher than what consensus assumed, a difference it said is worth roughly $1 a share. The high end of that range would bring United’s 2026 adjusted earnings to no more than $7.22 per share, CNBC reported. In mid-July, United had raised

Sonesta began laying off employees last Friday, according to an employee who spoke anonymously to Skift and at least nine LinkedIn posts. The departures span communications, marketing, loyalty, quality assurance, training, food and beverage, and accounting. Sonesta's chief brand officer left in recent weeks, and marketing and creative staff have exited since Friday, according to their LinkedIn posts.

Travel through the transatlantic corridor is in a transition phase. U. S. travelers still want to go to Europe, but they are spending more carefully. Canadian and American preferences are moving further apart. Travelers are searching for shoulder-season trips and easier ways to move around once they arrive. Airlines are adding routes outside the biggest gateway cities, but many of those places still lack easy connections into regional rail and ground networks. These shifts make the next source of growth harder to identify. Travel companies are competing for a large and resilient customer base that’s becoming more selective and fragmented.