Business travel

For the past few days, Wow Air has been linking Brussels Zaventem airport with Reykjavík. The aim is to encourage Belgian travellers to use the transatlantic routes offered from the Icelandic hub.

For its arrival in Paris, the Okko Hotels brand has found a choice location, on the outskirts of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre, to present its all-inclusive design and business hotel concept.

The very first flight of Level, the new long-haul low-cost airline dreamed up by IAG, took place on Thursday 1 June. The airline's Airbus A330-200 left Barcelona in the early afternoon, bound for Los Angeles.

Jet Airways is strengthening its position at London Heathrow by adding a new direct flight to Mumbai. This will be the Indian carrier's third daily service between the two airports.

The low-cost carrier AirAsia is once again trying to launch itself in Vietnam, one of the region's most dynamic markets, while also investing in China.

The Grand Voyageur lounge, which will welcome its first passengers on 8 June, has been entrusted to the management of the Regus group, which has a Regus Express centre with meeting rooms, offices to rent and a coworking space.

Whatever the threats or retaliatory measures against Latin America by Donald Trump's US government, air transport in this part of the world is booming.

The rail company intends to clarify its offer with InOUI, which will represent premium TGV travel from 2 July, while OUIgo will remain dedicated to the low-cost high-speed service. The Voyages-sncf.com website will also be renamed OUI.sncf by the end of 2017.

By dropping the TGV name, SNCF is clarifying its new commercial strategy with a premium service, InOui, and its low-cost counterpart OuiGo.

Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings is changing its approach to counter the growth in low-cost traffic from Munich. Since the introduction of the summer timetable, the German airline has decided to establish itself at the carrier's two hubs in Frankfurt and Munich.

Terminal 4 is set to open its doors in Singapore, adding a capacity of 16 million passengers to South East Asia's leading international airport. A terminal that was initially reserved for low-cost airlines, but which will also welcome traditional carriers.

The Irish low-cost carrier has signed an agreement with Air Europa for long-haul connecting flights to Madrid. Other partnerships of this type should follow, probably with Norwegian and Aer Lingus.

Following its launch on the Paris-London route, Eurostar is positioning its new e320 trainsets on the London-Brussels route. With a view to linking up with Amsterdam at the end of the year.

For its first steps outside the American continent, the Kimpton brand has chosen Amsterdam. A logical choice, given that the Dutch metropolis is now home to a flourishing number of design and lifestyle hotels.

New aircraft and new routes, greater complementarity with its parent company Air France, integration into the Flying Blue programme: Transavia, which has just celebrated its tenth birthday, has no shortage of ambitions for the future.

During the Cannes Film Festival, the prestigious guests of the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hôtel Martinez were able to discover the new rooms designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon.

This partnership between the two airlines in the oneworld alliance will offer connecting opportunities for travellers between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and Hong Kong on the other.

Mama Shelter launches into coworking. Previously known - and rapidly gaining recognition - for its hotel concept, the company launched by Serge Trigano and his sons will soon be opening its first Mama Works space in Lyon. It will then repeat the experience in Bordeaux and Lille...

Etihad Airways is preparing to install its A380 on the Abu Dhabi-Paris route on a permanent basis from 1 July. Following in the footsteps of Emirates, the Abu Dhabi airline is thus increasing the capacity of its flights to the French capital.

Icelandair has just inaugurated a new business lounge at Keflavik airport. The Saga Lounge welcomes business travellers in a space twice the size of the Icelandic airline's previous lounge.