Business travel

Brussels Airlines will be transferring its Moscow operations from Domodedovo airport to Sheremetyevo airport at the beginning of June. The aim is to facilitate business travellers' professional trips.

Business travellers who use the Renfe-SNCF network for their business trips now have access to free wi-fi on board trains.

Norwegian is to develop wi-fi access on its long-haul flights. Half of the Dreamliner fleet will be equipped with in-flight connectivity by 2020.

Aeroflot will soon be launching a new route between Marseille Provence airport and Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow.

A seventh Hyatt Regency hotel has just opened its doors on the African continent. Located in Addis Ababa, it is the first Hyatt representative in Ethiopia.

Agathe Fabron, Vice President Business Travel and Mice in the Global Sales division of Accor-Hotels, describes the approach to loyalty in hotel programmes.

Founder and Chairman of HCorpo, Stéphane de Laforcade highlights the importance of payment methods in optimising hotel bookings.

Paul-Edouard Le Bret, Director of Global Business Travel Sales for the Louvre Hotels group, describes his group's corporate travel offering.

Senior Director of Hosting at Egencia, Kevin Mauffrey describes the importance of user-friendly tools for travellers' user experience.

For Jean-Marie Login, Director of Hotel Sales EMEA at American Express Global Business Travel, the key to adopting hotel reservation solutions is the customer experience.

For John Baird Smith, Managing Director France at HRS, blockchain technology has a definite future in the world of hotel reservations.

Although all the players involved are united in their desire to automate the booking of meeting rooms, the complexity of the subject means that this is still a long way off. But that doesn't mean that progress hasn't been made.

For a long time, this was a real headache. But the world of hotel reservations now offers companies greater clarity when it comes to rationalising this major budget item.

Bertrand Gosselin replaces Agnès Ogier as head of Thalys. The rail company made the appointment official on Monday. Agnès Ogier joins the SNCF Group as Director General of Group Communication and Image

Eurostar has just begun selling tickets for its third daily service to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, which will start in June.

According to the Belgian media, a court ruling in December 2018 rendered the Uber platform illegal in Brussels. The VTC giant is nevertheless continuing its activities there, citing an "informative decision", and relying on the confusion between UberX and UberPOP.

In 2018, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport welcomed around 13.85 million passengers, 4.1 % more than last year.

According to preliminary figures released by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), 4.3 billion passengers travelled by air in 2018: an increase of 6.1 % compared with 2017.

Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport has just welcomed a record 11 million passengers in 2018.

The opening of the first phase of the new Istanbul airport has been confirmed for 3 March. Turkish Airlines will be transferring a number of flights from January onwards, including a daily service to Paris Charles de Gaulle.