Business travel

Start-ups want to dematerialise transport tickets to simplify users' lives. These start-ups met at the Transports Publics 2018 trade show, held from 12 to 14 June at Porte de Versailles.

Rome Fiumicino now has a new business lounge. Alitalia inaugurated the facility on 11 June in Pier E of its Rome hub.

On Tuesday, Egencia and Ector formalised an agreement enabling the business travel agency to accompany professionals when parking their vehicles, with the valet parking specialist.

EasyJet is inaugurating four new routes from Nice-Côte d'Azur airport, to Tel Aviv, Biarritz, Catania and Chania.

According to forecasts published on Monday, SNCF is set to operate 3 out of 5 TGV services on 12 June in the context of another day of strikes.

Air Canada has just launched its first direct flight between Paris and Vancouver on 9 June. The airline will be offering four weekly rotations.

Voyages d'Affaires was able to board the new Siemens Eurostar trains to experience Business Premier, the rail company's class for business customers. Here's a look back at this high-speed return journey between Paris and London.

The new airline Air Belgium has taken off. The Charleroi-based carrier has made its first flight to Hong Kong, to be followed by launches to mainland China.

The May 2018 figures published by easyJet confirm the good health of the low-cost airline. Indeed, with 7,790,000 passengers carried during the month...

With plans to open new hotels in France and Europe, a new urban concept, digital check-in and a metamorphosis of hotel lobbies, Fabrice Collet, Managing Director of B&B Hotels, explains the dynamism of the budget hotel chain.

A new 25hours hotel opened its doors in Düsseldorf in May. This establishment offers a blend of French elegance and German sobriety in the centre of the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Minor International has announced that it has taken over Chinese tourism conglomerate HNA's stake in NH Hotel and will shortly launch a takeover bid to become the majority shareholder in the Spanish group.

Until now, Gulf carriers have resisted the temptation to introduce a fourth class of travel on their aircraft, the famous Premium Eco. Emirates has just taken the plunge, and it is likely that other carriers in the region will follow Dubai's example.

The world of hotels and restaurants came together on 4 and 5 June for the Food Hotel Tech exhibition. The event organisers brought together start-ups representing the latest trends in the industry.

AccorHotels could add a key sector to its business diversification strategy: air transport. The hotel group has announced its interest in taking over the French state's stake in Air France-KLM.

A United Polaris lounge opens its doors on 4 June in New York, one of the airline's largest hubs. The airline has set up a luxury offer for its business class passengers.

Finnair is planning a busy summer in 2019: on 31 May it announced that it would be stepping up its flights from Nice and Biarritz, as well as to Reykjavik and Warsaw.

On 30 May, Singapore Airlines announced the scheduling of an 18-hour, 45-minute flight over 16,700 km linking Singapore to New York. And it is already thinking of landing in Los Angeles.

Which are the busiest airlines on the planet? Perhaps not the ones you might spontaneously think of. According to OAG's latest barometer of the top 20 busiest routes, Asia is at the top of the list...

Good news for passengers on US domestic routes: service quality was up in 2017, according to a study by US universities.