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.

More than 1,100 of travel's most forward-thinking insiders will gather for our annual Skift Global Forum in New York, September 27–28. In just a few years, Skift's Forums — the largest creative business gatherings in the global travel industry — have become what media, speakers, and attendees have called the “TED Talks of travel.” Skift Global Forum 2018 will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York.

I’m excited to announce today that our brand new event networking mobile app has launched! The new app will make an official debut at Skift Restaurants Forum and Skift Global Forumon September 24th and September 27-28th respectively. Both events will bring together a high-level group of attendees looking to learn from and connect with each other, and the new mobile app will make networking easier than ever.

Feisty as ever, Emirates CEO Tim Clark said Friday his airline soon may expand in the United States by resuming double daily flights from some larger U.S. cities, or by connecting new markets to Dubai. It’s a slight strategy shift for Emirates, as it has in the past couple of years reduced its U.S. footprint because of lagging demand.

Throughout the week we post dozens of original stories, connecting the dots across the travel industry, and every weekend we sum it all up. This weekend roundup examines aviation. For all of our weekend roundups,go here. >>Many politicians fear their nations will be irrelevant if they abandon their money-losing flag airlines. That’s probably a stretch. In most places, the market likely would fill the gap — provided the government got out of the way.

Does travel metasearch face an existential crisis because a handful of large advertising partners, including Booking Holdings and Expedia Group, can send comparison-shopping sites into a nosedive if they decide to curtail their marketing spending? TripAdvisor co-founder and CEO Steve Kaufer shrugs off what he characterized as “a hiccup” and “a blip” that occurred last year when some major advertisers — most likely including Booking and Expedia — cut back their advertising spending on TripAdvisor metasearch. “Some of the raw...

JetBlue Airways does not often lead on ancillary fees, but with the fuel costs up significantly and the airline unable to recoup all of its increased costs through higher fares, it had no choice except to raise prices for the first checked bag last month, CEO Robin Hayes said in an interview this week in London. “Fuel prices are up over 33 percent this year,” he told Skift at the Aviation Festival, an industry conference. “You end up having to pass those on.

More than 1,100 of travel's most forward-thinking insiders will gather for our annual Skift Global Forum in New York, September 27–28. In just a few years, Skift's Forums — the largest creative business gatherings in the global travel industry — have become what media, speakers, and attendees have called the “TED Talks of travel.” Skift Global Forum 2018 will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York.

Corporate travel has not done a good job at solving the problems faced by actual business travelers. Smaller corporate travel companies, along with travel providers and technology startups, are working hard to find solutions to the most enduring problems across the sector.

More than 1,100 of travel's most forward-thinking insiders will gather for our annual Skift Global Forum in New York, September 27–28. In just a few years, Skift's Forums — the largest creative business gatherings in the global travel industry — have become what media, speakers, and attendees have called the “TED Talks of travel.” Skift Global Forum 2018 will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York.