Regulatory and Legal Affairs

🛂 Airlines in Europe, such as Ryanair, easyJet, Volotea, Vueling, and Transavia, have varying cabin baggage policies, leading to charges up to €50. The European Parliament's 2023 resolution and the French DGAC support standard cabin baggage as a transport right but allow airlines to define 'standard'. In contrast, US airlines adopt a common policy allowing 56 x 35 x 23 cm baggage. Calls for European harmonization aim to ensure transparency and consistency.

📈 Q2 2025 saw Wyndham Hotels & Resorts experience a 3% global RevPAR decline YoY, with a 4% drop in the U.S. Despite challenges like interest rates and inflation, EMEA RevPAR rose 7%, and Latin America and the Caribbean saw an 18% increase. Wyndham expanded its room count by 4% YoY and pipeline by 5%, marking 20 consecutive quarters of growth. International net rooms grew 8%, with significant expansion in EMEA and South Asia.

📰 Jul 24, 2025, UK publishers report Google’s AI Overviews reduce news site clickthroughs by up to 80%, threatening independent journalism. Authoritas found sites ranked first could lose 79% of traffic. MailOnline experiences over 50% declines. UK’s Competition and Markets Authority receives a complaint against Google for unfair content use. Google disputes these findings, claiming unchanged web traffic. Critics say AI Overviews retain users in Google’s ecosystem, endangering quality journalism. [Read more](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/ai-summaries-causing-devastating-drop-in-online-news-audiences-study-finds).