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How Airlines Use AI to Set Fares: From 26 Buckets to Continuous Pricing

How Airlines Use AI to Set Fares: From 26 Buckets to Continuous Pricing

AI-driven dynamic pricing is replacing the airline industry's decades-old 26-bucket fare system. Here is how continuous pricing works, what...
eSIM for International Travel: How It Works, What It Costs and the Pitfalls to Avoid

eSIM for International Travel: How It Works, What It Costs and the Pitfalls to Avoid

Travel eSIMs now undercut carrier roaming passes by a wide margin, with data from about $2 per GB versus $12-a-day passes. Here is how to se...
How Online Travel Agencies Work: Two Giants, One Commission Machine and Five Prices for the Same Room

How Online Travel Agencies Work: Two Giants, One Commission Machine and Five Prices for the Same Room

Booking Holdings and Expedia Group sold over $300 billion of travel in 2025. Here is how OTA commission and merchant models actually work, h...
Face-First Flying: Biometric Boarding Hits Critical Mass in 2026

Face-First Flying: Biometric Boarding Hits Critical Mass in 2026

Half of air travellers now use facial recognition somewhere in their journey. With TSA Touchless ID at 65 US airports, the EU's EES fully li...
AI Trip Planning in 2026: What the Tools Actually Get Right — and Where They Still Fail

AI Trip Planning in 2026: What the Tools Actually Get Right — and Where They Still Fail

AI assistants now draft itineraries, search fares conversationally and rebook disrupted flights, yet only 13% of travellers trust them to bo...