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. Here’s a secret for you: Even the best journalists know just a tiny fraction of what happens in a major airline’s operation.

A simple drivers license might not be sufficient to board U.S. domestic flights and trips to U.S. territories such as the Virgin Islands starting in the fall of 2020, and although the deadline may seem far off for now, some travel advisors are warning their clients to start thinking ahead.

“The purpose of a business is to create a customer,” said Peter Drucker, the late king of the management gurus. In that vein, travel technology companies told airlines to “make customers, not war.

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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. For years, Los Angeles has considered building a new terminal, just east of Southwest Airlines’ Terminal 1, in what is today an airport-owned parking lot.

Pat Hager had built a successful second career focusing on senior travel, but then ran into a challenge: her aging clientele was increasingly hesitant to book vacations because they had no one to travel with. “When I got into the travel business a dozen years ago, a lot of my business came from my friends,” said Hager, owner of Where to Next Travel in Escondido, California. “As we got older together, the dynamic started to change.

Southwest Airlines, which clipped its growth plans slightly as oil prices rose earlier this year, will stick to its capacity plans for 2019, even though fuel costs have fallen this month to their lowest levels in months, Gary Kelly, the airline’s CEO, said Friday in an interview. “No, not at all,” he said in in Los Angeles, where Southwest unveiled a multi-year $500 million renovation of its Terminal 1 at LAX.

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. >>Wow Air has delighted passengers with low fares since 2011. But its creditors have not been as happy. Will that change if this investment goes through? Frontier Owner Steps In to Rescue Wow Air >>Two months ago, airlines were panicked about the price of fuel.

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 typical major U.S. airport is a large bureaucratic organization staffed by public-sector employees who can be averse to change.