While Air France and KLM are part of the same holding company, they are two very different airlines. In recent years the French arm has struggled, partly as a result of a long-running labor dispute. KLM, on the other, hand has quietly got on with business. Air France-KLM’s new CEO Ben Smith wants to change this and bring the two businesses closer together. “Obviously, [this is] a very unique set up, the way we have it here. There’s no comparable around the world.

Every airline is feeling the pinch of higher fuel prices, but U.S. discount carrier Allegiant Air has a not-so-secret advantage. It is retiring its old jets and adding a bunch of newer, more fuel efficient aircraft at an opportune time. Allegiant executives said Wednesday on their third-quarter earnings call that they’ll retire their last MD-80 on Nov. 28, just after Thanksgiving travel rush.

JetBlue founder David Neeleman said he’s ready for when competitors try to crush his proposed new U.S. low-cost carrier when it starts flying in 2021. “I’ll just do stuff they can’t do,” Neeleman said, adding that Brazil’s Azul, which he also founded and serves as chairman, will feed traffic to the new airline, code-named Moxy. Neeleman also claimed that the new airline, which he said probably won’t be named Moxy.

With speculation swirling about the future of Norwegian Air, including a possible bankruptcy, executives on Thursday acknowledged for the first time the airline is in talks to form a joint venture — and that those talks are in advanced stages. CEO Bjørn Kjos and CFO Geir Karlsen were sketchy on details during their third-quarter results presentation but did say that discussions were far along. It is not clear whether the deal is with another airline.

In a drawback to its international expansion plans, a Six Flags theme park that was supposed to open late next year in Dubai is now under review by its struggling owner, executives from Six Flags Entertainment said Wednesday. DXB Entertainments, which owns the Dubai Parks and Resorts complex where the new Six Flags is under construction, has posted losses as attendance failed to meet expectations.

What do you do with $5.1 billion (£3.9 billion)? If you’re Whitbread, you spend some of it on expanding your business internationally. The parent company of Premier Inn plans to use the proceeds of the sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola to grow its hotel business outside the UK. In February, Whitbread bought 19 hotels in Germany as it looks to replicate the success it has had with Premier Inn in the UK. It plans to almost double the number of rooms it has in the country to 6,000 by 2021.

Already on a years-long growth spurt, MSC Cruises is adding a new category to its ship-building boom: luxury. The privately owned European operatorannounced Thursday it has agreed to order four “ultra-luxury” cruise ships for more than 2 billion euros, or $2.3 billion. The vessels will have capacity for 1,000 passengers — far smaller than the rest of MSC’s fleet — and encompass 64,000 gross tons.

The Skift Airline Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter on the business of airline innovation. We look closely at the technological, financial, and design trends at airlines and airports. Brian Sumers writes and curates the newsletter, and we send it on Wednesdays. You can find previous issues of the newsletter here. At American Airlines, some airport employees call Robert Isom Capt. D0, an homage to his obsession with on-time departures.

The Skift Wellnessnewsletter is our weekly dispatch focused onwhat’s happening in wellness from a global business standpoint.Skift Wellness lives where wellness meets commerce, mindfulness meets technology, the yoga studio meets the boardroom, andhealth meets business. What do wellness brands want? Usually, the goal is to create an almost cult-like following, with fans so passionate, they see the brand not just as another company, but rather, a lifestyle.

First off, thanks to everyone who came out to our fifth Skift Global Forum in New York last month, and to those who showed up to all our regional Forums and other events throughout the year! The Skift team is refreshed with new ideas and so grateful to meet our readers and supporters in person. If you didn’t make it to Skift Global Forum 2018, you can check out editorial coverage here and see coverage from all our 2018 Forums here.