Business travel

It was made official on 21 April: Virgin Australia is insolvent. The airline nevertheless intends to continue flying.

Whether it's Accor, B&B Hotels or Singapore, the tourism industry intends to label its establishments to provide customers with health guarantees.

With airline CEOs estimating that it will take at least a year, if not two, to return to normal levels of activity, some carriers are exploring what the immediate post-COVID-19 situation will be like on aircraft. The immobilisation of some of the seats in the cabin is being strongly considered...

Emirates is focusing on screening passengers at its Dubai hub, with a Covid-19 testing policy that is set to become more widespread.

American companies will benefit from a $25 billion direct aid package to avoid redundancies and prepare for the recovery.

While Air France-KLM saw its traffic fall in March, the airline group should soon receive the support of the French and Dutch governments.

A former general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, the Bristol and La Réserve hotels, Didier Le Calvez now heads three entities serving the luxury hotel industry. This seasoned professional takes a look at the current health crisis and the conditions for recovery.

The management of the Lufthansa group is expecting a lasting downturn in business, and has therefore unveiled a flight plan focused on drastically reducing costs and operations.

Etihad Airways will be trialling a new airport screening technology at its Abu Dhabi hub to identify at-risk passengers and block their flight to curb the spread of Covid-19 and future crises. The aim is to control and reassure.

Brussels Airlines has postponed the resumption of operations, initially scheduled for mid-April, until mid-May.

Hotel occupancy in excess of 30%, air capacity in excess of 40%: the world of business travel is back in colour in China.

Centralised payment from an account with the car hire companies, single billing, data reconciliation and analysis: with the AirPlus payment card, companies can easily manage their car hire expenditure.

Like other global groups, Accor has implemented drastic measures to deal with the crisis, while at the same time setting up a support fund for its employees, financed by part of the dividends initially planned.

The number of closures at British airports is increasing, while the airlines, which are in serious difficulty, are appealing to the government for help.

Thomas Emanuel, director of analyst firm STR, describes the impact of the epidemic on the global hotel industry as unprecedented, and discusses the conditions for future recovery.

After suspending most of its routes, easyJet has finally decided to halt all its operations since 30 March.

Against this backdrop of a health crisis, several Citadines residences in Paris and the surrounding region are providing free accommodation for nursing staff.

Olivier Petit, Partner at In Extenso Tourism, Culture & Hospitality, looks back at the enormous impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on the hotel sector.

KLM will continue to operate one of the largest networks of destinations with the introduction of the summer schedules this weekend. The airline should thus benefit from the radical reduction in capacity by its competitors and exploit synergies with the Air France network from Paris.

The Russian government has finally decided to close its airspace from Friday 27 March.