Ronan Daniel

🚀 SITA, leveraging Starlink's network, launched a global satellite connectivity service on May 2025 to ensure operational continuity for airports and airlines. Available in 130 countries, it offers 24/7 support, addressing network vulnerabilities from natural disasters and technological threats. A recent power outage in the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 highlighted its importance. SITA's service integrates seamlessly with its other connectivity solutions, ensuring high-availability networks irrespective of circumstances.

🛰 Booking.com ended its direct affiliate program with content creators and travel bloggers on May 20-21, 2025, granting a 30-day notice. Creators are now directed to third-party platforms, CJ or Awin, based on location. The decision, causing surprise among affiliates, aims to explore new content monetization strategies without clearer communication. Competing with this, Expedia's Trip Matching tool tests AI-driven travel itineraries from Instagram posts. These changes echo challenges in the travel content market, like falling commissions and AI competition.

✈ The Global 8000, touted as the world's fastest civil aircraft since the Concorde, completed its inaugural flight. When? May 2025. Where? Bombardier's assembly center, Mississauga, Ontario. What? Reaches Mach 0.94 with 8,000 nautical miles range, connecting Singapore to Los Angeles nonstop. How? Over half the distance at Mach 0.92. The aircraft targets business clientele with luxury amenities. Bombardier, founded in 1942, has refocused since 2021 on business aviation, maintaining a fleet of 5,100 aircraft.