Business travel

After a 34-year absence, SAS Scandinavian Airlines will once again be landing its aircraft at New York JFK on 9 February. It will also continue to serve Newark from Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.

Following in the footsteps of many fashion brands, ELLE magazine is now taking its turn in the world of hospitality. With its first Maison ELLE boutique hotel in Paris, embodying the values of this world-famous brand.

According to the latest statistics published by the DGAC, air transport in France is continuing to improve. October also saw the best monthly traffic recovery rate since 2019, at 89.5%.

Dubai International Airport has once again confirmed its status as the leading intercontinental hub between Europe, Africa and Asia. The latest upward estimates now point to total traffic of 64.3 million passengers for the whole of 2022. 2023 should see the hub exceed the record traffic of 2019.

IHG and Iberostar have joined forces to create a new all-inclusive brand. This is yet another sign of the growing interest shown by the major hotel groups in all-inclusive resorts, most of which include MICE facilities.

We knew it and now it's confirmed. Brexit will have had rather negative consequences for British air transport. Particularly in the shortage of staff to recruit, especially with the disappearance of the windfall of candidates from the European Union. Only the British Conservative government is still arguing the opposite...

After France, Trenitalia's new subsidiary operated its first official journey between Madrid and Valencia on Monday. Targeting business customers, general public services will begin on Friday on the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona route.

While the World Cup has just begun in Qatar, a Steigenberger Residence long-stay establishment has just opened in Doha. As for Glasgow, an Adagio aparthotel is due to open there in December.

Three solar farms, the first of which was recently inaugurated, will supply Paris airports with renewable energy. In other ADP Group news, new self-service baggage drop-off machines.

Rising fares, strong demand from leisure passengers but weaker demand from business customers, the energy transition, punctuality: the FNAM has drawn up an outlook for air transport in France in 2022.

Washington Dulles, the US federal capital's main international airport, finally has a direct metro line to the city centre. A project that has taken almost 20 years to come to fruition...

Already serving Turin and Milan, SNCF is considering going further in Italy. While Trenitalia has established itself on the French market, SNCF could launch a TGV line from Paris to Rome and Naples via Lyon.

Although SNCF intends to limit the increase in prices of TGV and Ouigo tickets, business customers will bear the brunt of the announced rise of 5% on average.

In summer 2023, British Airways will be inaugurating a new destination in the United States: Cincinnati. It will also increase its frequencies to New York JFK, Pittsburgh and Portland. The British airline is thus confirming its status as Europe's leading airline on the North Atlantic.

Although Beauvais Tillé airport has recorded the strongest growth in traffic in France, even surpassing its 2019 figures, the hub remains unattractive to business travellers. A situation that could change with the privatisation of the airport in 2023?

Radisson took advantage of COP27 to sign the Glasgow Declaration, setting out its commitment to sustainable hospitality.

While in Dubai, biometrics will smooth the way for all Emirates passengers from 2023, British Airways is testing this technology on its international flights.

As part of the Train+Avion programme offered by the SNCF, a single digital ticket is required for pre- and post-journey by TGV to the two Paris airports of Roissy and Orly.

The Hilton group has unveiled its list of major openings for 2023, with plans for new hotels in Bordeaux and Dijon, as well as London, Rabat and New York.

Caribbean carrier Air Caraïbes, in partnership with AXA Partners, is further enhancing its range of insurance products to make travel on its routes even more worry-free.