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Priceline CEO: Airline delays aren’t stopping Americans from traveling
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7/12/2024
Brett Keller, CEO of Priceline, joins TheStreet to discuss why both inflation and widespread airline delays haven’t stopped Americans from traveling.
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Are you seeing any changes in consumer travel behavior because of inflation?
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Well, inflation has been with us now for a few years and what we're seeing is that
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travel in particular is holding up quite well compared to other categories. Consumers continue
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to preference travel over hard goods and even, you know, staples to some extent because people love
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to travel. They want to get out and it's a way for them to relax, take a vacation and enjoy
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themselves. What we're seeing obviously is on the hotel side, you know, price has really shot up the
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last couple of years and for the first time, really we're starting to see hotel prices level out and
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even start to come down a little bit. So inflation has taken a hard toll in the hotel industry but
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now that I think is starting to ease a little bit. So the question will be what happens as we move
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through the rest of the summer and into the rest of the year. Will prices start to surge again in
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those areas? Speaking of hard tolls, Brett, air travel has been a mess for the last couple of
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years. You know, the industry has been contending with staffing shortages and widespread delays and
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cancellations. Are these travel disruptions getting to the point where they are weighing on
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travelers' choices for the summer? Based on the demand trends, I would say no. They're
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not stopping them from boarding airplanes and flying, which is really where most of the
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disruption takes place. Again, air traffic is up six or seven percent year over year. As we move
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into the holidays and peak periods, it will be higher. What's happening though is there is better
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staffing taking place, right? TSA is better staffed. The airlines have put more equipment into the air
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and it's enabled them to deal with some of the backlog that happens when you get a bad
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weather incident or you have an equipment malfunction. So the airlines, from an operational
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perspective, are improving. If you compare this to two years ago, when it was really a very tough
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summer for consumers, I think we're going to be in a much better place this year as we were last
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year. So there's fewer cancellations and fewer delays, but more flights in the air, so it will
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feel more crowded as you're moving through the airports.
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