Airlines are projecting record-breaking summer travel while simultaneously cutting routes because jet fuel hit $15 a gallon at LAX. If your hotel's feeder market depends on a route that just got suspended, the macro headline is worse than useless... it's a distraction.
Two million seats disappeared from May schedules when Spirit shut down last week, and the ripple hasn't hit most hotel forecasts yet. If you're running a fly-to leisure property and haven't stress-tested your summer assumptions, you're about to learn something the hard way.
Eight hundred thousand airline seats vanished overnight and surviving carriers are jacking fares 5-15% for summer. If you're a drive-to leisure property still running last month's rate strategy, you're leaving money on a table that's about to get very crowded.
