Categories: OLD Media Moves

Skift has acquired Airline Weekly

Skift, which covers the travel and restaurant industries, has acquired Airline Weekly, including its subscription-based newsletter, for an undisclosed amount.

Airline Weekly, launched in 2004 by Jay Shabat, Seth Kaplan and Jason Cottrell, is read by airline CEOs and senior executives worldwide and covers the ins and outs of the airline business.

The Airline Weekly subscription newsletter will remain a separate brand within the Skift family, led by the same editorial team.

Skift, which launched in 2012, produces the Airline Innovation Report newsletter led by Brian Sumers, its senior aviation business editor.

“With Airline Weekly, the Airline Innovation Report, and our global forums, Skift now offers the strongest business coverage of commercial aviation in the world,” said Skift CEO Rafat Ali in a statement.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.