Travel Week in Review – December 4, 2020

Travel restrictions have hardened across the U.S. over the past two weeks just as the demand for travel has increased. Christmas travel is expected to be much bigger than Thanksgiving, so whilst these restrictions are subject to change on a week-by-week basis, they provide a guide to restrictions in each state for the entire month. Read more…

Tripkicks has signed a partnership with travel management company Executive Travel. Under the pact, Executive Travel will integrate Tripkicks’ messaging platform into its online booking tool, enabling corporate travel managers to deliver travel alerts related to Covid-19 and other relevant information to their employees within the booking flow. Read more…

Okay, don’t get too excited but who doesn’t love free miles? Starting today through December 16th, American Airlines is giving every registered AAdvantage member a free gift and all it takes is a few clicks or taps to claim it. Just log into your Advantage account or their app. When you access your account online, the gift is under the Promotions tab. Read more…

If you’ve never cruised before, getting started can be overwhelming: Which one do you book, and how? What should you pack? What are the things a first-timer won’t know that an experienced cruiser would? Now, as cruise lines work to resume operations following a shutdown as a result of the coronavirus, new protocols and standards can make even the most enthusiastic traveler take pause. Read more…

For the 10th year in a row, travel buyers rated Delta Air Lines as the top carrier in BTN’s Airline Survey, atop a tide of improved buyer satisfaction with airlines even as they faced a near-total evaporation of corporate travel demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Delta earned a total score of 4.59 on a five-point scale and once again earned the highest score among its competitors in all criteria measured in the survey. Read more…