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.

The idea of airline food being so delicious that it should be offered on the ground is laughable to most people, but Air Asia Group’s CEO Tony Fernandes is dead serious about opening a fast-food restaurant, likely to be in its home market Malaysia first, that will serve the carrier’s inflight dishes. “Our food is fantastic. We believe in it so much that we’re going to start a fast-food restaurant out of it.

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 tourism trends. For all of our weekend roundups,go here. Medellin’s Tourism Challenge: Telling the Right Story of Its Violent Past. Medellin has gone through an incredible transformation over the past 30 years, but large issues still remain prevalent.

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. Aeromexico Struggles as Most North American Airlines Report Hefty Profits: Aeromexico blamed its fourth quarter operating loss on one-off items. To a large extent that’s true.

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. Southwest Airlines is the most consistently profitable U.S. airline, but it significantly lags behind its major competitors on credit card revenue.

Despite a new rock star brand, Wyndham Hotels had a flat quarter in the U.S. market. The company is continuing to reap the benefits of its recently-acquired La Quinta franchise, which is quickly becoming the bright spot in its massive portfolio. Revenue for Wyndham Hotels increased 69 percent in the fourth quarter, with over a third of that coming from La Quinta, the company said in releasing quarterly earnings on Wednesday.

Before Mark Goshgarian, a consultant, applied for the Southwest Airlines credit card morethan a year ago, he calculated how much value he could extract from it, sketching his 2018 travel plans, month by month. He had good reason. Once approved, he would earn a Southwest companion pass, allowing him to bring another person on each trip for free.

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 tourism trends. For all of our weekend roundups,go here. SeaWorld Recruits Carnival Exec as New CEO: By going outside the company for its new CEO, SeaWorld is clearly looking to signal that it is serious about a new beginning. Gus Antorcha will have his work cut out for him up the Turnpike in Orlando.

This is one of my favorite parts of the time leading up to our Skift Forums—raffling off free tickets to attend! We know our Skift Forums are expensive, and cost can often be a barrier for our readers to participate in these events.

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. No one actually looks forward to their annual checkup. The visit either comes with bad news or reveals little more than you already know. But Parsley Health, a startup founded in 2016 by Dr.