After United Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Nocella wakes, he likes to monitor recent bookings to check if business remains strong. Increasingly, he likes what he sees, not only from corporate customers but also from leisure travelers.

Like many haggard business travelers, PJ Mastracchio didn’t like waiting in line for 10 minutes in an airport terminal to buy a soggy sandwich or salad. Unlike most other business travelers, Mastracchio wanted to create a solution. By late 2014, he had begun thinking about building a company, now called At Your Gate, that would deliver almost anything passengers wanted, with a courier picking up food or sundries and delivering to them to customers waiting at a gate.

Anytime a cruise line rolls out a new class of ship — a not-so-frequent occurrence — it’s a chance to introduce a host of new bells and whistles. With its first new type of ship in 10 years, Celebrity Cruises turned the volume way up. Boasting giant new features, reinventions of classic standbys, and quieter bits of whimsy, Celebrity Edge set sail for its first preview cruise on Sunday.

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. >>Companies have had a couple of years to get used to the idea that the UK is leaving the European Union. The biggest problem they still have is knowing the exact relationship between the two come next March.

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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. I’m beginning to think the airline industry is like fashion: If you wait around enough, old ideas will come back into style. Today, the example is premium economy.

Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Editor Sean O'Neill [email protected] if you have funding news. This week startups announced more than $262.6 million in funding. Earlier this week we reported on Sojern, a travel tech startup, having raised a $120 million Series D round.

It’s been a strong year for corporate travel in general, with both hotel chains and airlines reporting robust growth as businesses continue to send their employees across the world. On their earnings calls in recent weeks for third quarter results, top executives across travel expressed optimism for the future of continued corporate travel growth. Still, signs are emerging that an economic slowdown is coming soon.

Many retailers this time of year prepare for the festive season, shipping gift cards to consumers who may, or may not, redeem them. It’s big business — worth well over $100 billion annually, one study reports — but not a major emphasis for most airlines. Many do offer gift cards. But they’re not major players, and according to data from Wallet Hub, only one U.S. carrier — American Airlines — offers one of the 50 most popular cards among U.S. consumers, at No.

Marijuana remains illegal in much of the Caribbean but tourism officials want to be prepared for if and when more countries legalize the drug and pot tourism experiences become possible. Jamaica, which is famous for its Rastafarian history and traditions, decriminalized marijuana possession in 2015, but other governments in the region are moving much slower on the issue despite public opinion shifting towards legalization.