Business travel

InterContinental London - The O2 has opened its doors to welcome business and leisure travellers to London's Greenwich Peninsula. This is the second InterContinental Hotels & Resorts to open in the UK capital.

Two new aircraft have recently joined the TAP fleet. These Airbus A330-200s should contribute to the development of the Portuguese airline on the US market. 

Flybe has just announced the opening of a new route between Paris and Southampton. Already present on this route from Orly, the airline will soon be flying to Paris-CDG.

Air France has recently been trialling a new service on certain short and medium-haul flights, which has been particularly eagerly awaited by business customers: in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity.

Starwood is due to open a W hotel in Madrid in 2018, the brand's second on the Spanish market. 

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport welcomed exactly 8,703,354 passengers during 2015, recording slight growth (+2.8 1TP3Q) compared with the previous financial year.

HRS Global Hotel Solutions has published its traditional Hotel Price Radar barometer, which compares average prices (including VAT) for hotel nights in 150 cities around the world during 2015.

With a doubling of the workforce and a minimum doubling of our business, MorningCroissant has set itself ambitious goals for 2016, after a very fast-paced 2015. 

The inaugural Paris-Mexico flight on 12 January was distinguished by both its symbolic significance and its strategic dimension. It marked the arrival of the first Airbus A380 in Latin America on a commercial flight, and opened a new chapter in the Mexican history of Air France, whose ambitions have clearly been revised upwards, particularly in the business segment.

Air France has become the 1st airline in the world to market the Airbus A380 to Latin America. Pierre Descazeaux, General Manager for the France market, looks back at the symbolic and strategic importance of this launch. Interviewed in Mexico City by Florian Guillemin.

Transavia recorded more than 4 million passengers during 2015: a significant increase on the previous year. 

British Airways has published a study into the behaviour of French business travellers during their business trips. More specifically, it looks at the role of bleisure, that mix of business travel and leisure.

The inauguration of Hotel Indigo Lower East Side in New York marks a highly symbolic milestone for the IHG Group: 5,000 hotels worldwide. 

Bordeaux airport welcomed some 5,300,000 passengers in 2015: a record number of passengers, coupled with an unprecedented growth rate.

A new Hilton hotel has officially opened at Amsterdam Airport: the Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. 

On Wednesday, Beijing became the 3rd long-haul destination served by Finnair by A350, after Shanghai and Bangkok.

Iberia has just taken delivery of its very first Airbus A330-200. A total of thirteen aircraft will be added to the Spanish airline's fleet over the next three years. 

A strike will disrupt the Belgian rail networks on 6 and 7 January. They will prevent Eurostar services to Brussels station.

On 27 March, Jet Airways will launch two daily non-stop flights between Amsterdam and the Indian hubs of Mumbai and Delhi. Schiphol airport will thus become the airline's new nerve centre for the European market.