Business travel

An incident involving one of the engines on a United Airlines Boeing 777 forced the airline to ground around twenty aircraft. All carriers with the same type of aircraft are now following suit. 

Lifestyle, loyalty, hybrid meetings and the resumption of major events: Patrick Mendes, Accor's Chief Commercial Officer, reviews the latest news from the French hotel group.

From the French West Indies to Brittany, Eastern France and New Aquitaine, B&B Hotels is opening new hotels all the time.

Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Point: G7 subscribers can now enjoy digital versions of several major titles in their application.

The InterContinental Bordeaux has inaugurated the Studio du Grand Hôtel, a new infrastructure designed to organise hybrid events, with the support of the Abaques audiovisual agency.

7.1 billion for Air France-KLM and 1.17 billion for the ADP group. Unsurprisingly, French air transport will have had a black year in 2020 with the covid-19 pandemic.

The rapprochement between Etihad and Gulf Air was initiated in 2018 and already strengthened in 2020. But the two Gulf airlines have now taken the next step by confirming a major strategic agreement.

From 11 March, Air France passengers departing from Paris CDG to Guadeloupe and Martinique will be able to test the ICC AOKpass digital health certificate.

In partnership with Microsoft and its Teams platform, Accor will be offering the All Connect concept in April, dedicated to hybrid meetings for 8 to 50 people.

Unsurprisingly, the covid pandemic has affected all transport sectors in the United States. The number of journeys fell by 26% according to Department of Transportation statistics.

Air Caraïbes and French Bee are launching a pilot of the ICC AOKpass digital health certificate on their routes from Paris-Orly to the French overseas departments and territories.

Iberia has launched a test phase at Madrid airport, integrating facial recognition of travellers on tablets.

In France, as in Europe, the hotel industry has been hard hit by the pandemic. In Extenso's annual conference took stock of the past year and outlined the prospects for recovery.

Two spectacular curved towers, two legendary hotel brands: the Fairmont and Raffles hotel project in Lusail, Qatar, aims to capture the imagination of travellers during the 2022 football World Cup and beyond.

The Adagio access brand of urban residences will open in Saint-Nazaire in May, not far from the town's business park and seaside resort.

Until now, Swedish Railways SJ had made few changes to the rules in force on board its trains. But since 14 February, a series of new measures have been adopted to better protect passengers on trains.

The requirement for crews coming to Hong Kong to confine themselves for 14 days has resulted in the closure of a series of air routes for Cathay Pacific. The agony of the Hong Kong carrier never seems to end...

The mk2 group is dedicating a hotel to the seventh art, transforming its 34 rooms and two suites into private screening rooms and its rooftop into a vast open-air cinema.

Nicholas Foo is in charge of Business Development for Affinidi, a technology company founded by Temasek in Singapore and specialising in the creation and sharing of digital identities. He explains the importance of systems such as the one being tested with Singapore Airlines, for the recognition of different standards linked to the authentication of PCR tests and then vaccines.

Israel, Denmark, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia: several countries have already embarked on the digital health passport route. Are we still waiting for France?