Business travel

The rail company has presented a new offer for business groups.

HOP! Air France, the regional subsidiary of the French national carrier, and the private low-cost airline Volotea have set their sights on Rennes.

Located on the corniche of the white city, in the Anfa district, the 186-room hotel positions itself as an urban resort with a spa...

Hilton Worldwide has just opened a new hotel in London, the group's 29th in the British capital.

Ten years after launching its top-of-the-range Angsana brand alongside its luxury offering, Banyan Tree has just acquired two new brands to celebrate its 21st anniversary.

For 25 years now, All Nippon Airways has been playing spoilsport on the France-Japan route, which for years was the monopoly of the two national airlines, Air France and Japan Airlines.

With losses for the seventh year running, Airberlin, Germany's second-largest carrier, continues to implement restructuring plans.

The new Malaysia Airlines, which took over the assets of its predecessor and has been in service since 1 September, is continuing to clean up its accounts and restructure its network and fleet. At the same time, the carrier is thinking about winning back passengers.

Who will take over Starwood Hotels? The soap opera has dominated the hotel industry this year. For a while, rumours had it that IHG was the frontrunner, then Hyatt or the new Chinese giant resulting from the merger of the Jin Jiang and Plateno groups. In the end, none of them did, as Marriott won the bid. And it paid a price for it: 12 billion dollars, mainly paid by an exchange of shares.

Since the beginning of November, AirPlus has been trialling a new service aimed at gaining greater visibility over expenditure linked to business meals. The project, called AirPlus Checkout, is being carried out in partnership with orderbird. 

Two new 'air' features have significantly enhanced the functionalities offered by TripNavigator, the booking tool offered by Egencia. Within a few days of each other, the business travel agency has integrated both flight booking and the personalised information offered by the Routehappy platform.

Frequent Flyer Travel Paris is taking on a new dimension in the hotel business by joining the prestigious Virtuoso network, which is repositioning the business travel agency in the upmarket segment.

The Aigle Azur App is now available on smartphones and tablets, embodying the airline's new digital strategy.

Malaysia Airlines has just unveiled the new Business Class that will equip its A330-300 aircraft, with a configuration designed to offer more space to business travellers.

The DGAC has published the 2014 - 2015 annual results of its "National Air Passenger Survey": an instructive document, which provides a clearer picture of the profile of travellers departing from French airports.

The Lufthansa group is continuing its direct distribution strategy with the launch of the "Book on Google" function, simplifying bookings via Google Flights.

EasyJet will be flying the Lyon-Copenhagen route on 16 April, making it the 37th route out of Lyon.

The Hôtel Barrière Le Normandy Deauville is preparing to close its doors temporarily from 1 November 2015 to 29 April 2016. The prestigious establishment will use this time to complete the renovation work that has been carried out in stages over the last five years.

The new face of the Mercure Lyon Centre Château Perrache hotel was unveiled a few days ago, following several months of renovation.

The Paris-Gothenburg route will start operating this evening with Scandinavian Airlines, which will operate 4 direct flights a week from Paris-Charles de Gaulle.