“Airbnb founder Brian Chesky reveals secret plans to launch airline,” reads a headline splashed across The Times of London’s website.
“We’ve seriously considered a lot of things around aviation and we’ve spent a lot of time exploring different concepts,” Chesky said in an interview with the newspaper for its Sunday Times edition. “We definitely want to make sure, though, that we can get into the end-to-end trip business.”
The entry of Airbnb into the commercial aviation market would indeed be a big story, and – as you’d expect – the Times’ headline has spawned many follow-on stories about the idea.
But is Airbnb really looking into such a venture? Only time will tell.