Business travel

Air New Zealand has unveiled the new cabins that will accommodate its business and economy class passengers on board its future Dreamliners. The Skynest concept includes bunks for economy class passengers.

At the same time as the European Commission's Connecting Europe Days event was taking place in Lyon, Air France published its annual environmental report. Two events which embody the real efforts of the air transport industry to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment.

An ibis budget and a Holiday Inn are about to open on the Airport City Manchester site, marking the birth of the hotel district of the Mancunian aerotropolis.

To mark its entry into the La Défense district, the contemporary Okko brand is proposing a 184-room hotel, complete as always with a Club area, a proper restaurant and meeting rooms.

The recovery in French Polynesia since the end of the Covid restrictions has been exceptional. This activity is favouring the 'national' carrier Air Tahiti Nui, particularly on high-contribution traffic, as General Manager Mathieu Bechonnet explains.

Unlike easyJet, KLM, Lufthansa and British Airways, Air France has not yet reduced its flight frequencies. According to the airline's management, preventive measures to avoid staff shortages or strikes are behind this good news...

Having already announced the cancellation of a thousand flights in July, the Lufthansa group is doing it again with the cancellation of some 2,200 flights throughout the summer on European routes.

Expected to open in 2024, the Océania Lille Les Augustins will transform the former headquarters of the Scalbert-Dupont bank into a top-of-the-range hotel with 88 rooms, meeting rooms, coworking facilities and... swimming pool in the vault!

A luxurious InterContinental with a convention centre in Tashkent, a Radisson Collection with a large events room in Tirana, an intimate Park Hyatt in Johannesburg: new top-of-the-range business addresses are springing up all over the world.

Organic development of its brands, licensing rights, acquisitions: the Radisson group is not ruling out any avenue to achieve its growth target of 400 % in Asia-Pacific by 2025.

From 2023, Vueling will accept the use of 13 crypto-currencies, joining several hundred other airlines that can already accept payments via the Bitpay platform and the Universal Air Travel Plan UATP payment network.

With the opening of the largest hotel in its network in Copenhagen and the addition of another high-capacity hotel in Gothenburg, both with large MICE areas and beautiful rooftops, Scandic is strengthening its position as leader in the Scandinavian hotel industry.

The Accor group has teamed up with Karhoo to offer members of its ALL loyalty programme a taxi and VTC booking service in Europe, as well as in Dubai and New York.

Ruby recently opened a second establishment in Munich, just a stone's throw from the main railway station.

Business travel between France and Algeria will benefit from an expanded offer this summer with the programmes unveiled by Air France, Transavia and Tassili Airlines.

Openings in Toulouse, Marseille and Le Havre, coworking and meeting rooms, ambitions : James Galland, Director of Operations and Development at Odalys City, presents the new concept of the aparthotel brand.

The IATA CO2 Connect tool was presented on 19 June by the International Air Transport Association. The aim is to measure emissions linked to business travel by air more reliably.

The long-stay arm of the Mövenpick brand, Mövenpick Living, will open two establishments in Istanbul, including one in October.

Oman Air is set to join the oneworld alliance in 2024, joining Qatar Airways and Royal Jordanian.

For the time being, Nice seems to have escaped the bottlenecks encountered at other European hubs. And that's despite the upturn in traffic. According to Aymeric Staub, press officer at Nice Airport, the hub has in fact managed to keep its jobs during the pandemic.