Business travel

Patrick Roux, Executive Vice President Asia Pacific for Air France KLM, gives a comprehensive overview of the Group's strategy in the region, highlighting the importance of the various partnerships signed with local partners, and underlining its strengths in this high-potential market. Interview.

The difficulties encountered by Malaysia Airlines and Thai Airways International have resulted in a sharp reduction in capacity for these two carriers flying to Europe. 

Capitaine Train unveiled its application for the Apple Watch on Friday. The train ticket booking website has taken great care with the design and functions of its new mobile showcase.

Mobile applications are providing more and more useful functions for business travellers. As far as WiFi is concerned, it is slowly making inroads on the railways.

Air France has just launched its dedicated application for the Apple Watch, enabling business travellers to centralise their flight information around their wrist.

After three decades of dormancy, Adelaide's luxury hotel industry will soon be welcoming a brand new player: the Sofitel Luxury is due to open its doors in 2018 in a brand new building in Australia's business district.

With the launch of its new Priority and Excellence classes in Barcelona on Tuesday, Vueling became the first low-cost airline to introduce business class to the European market. With a key asset - electrical outlets - and an original financing strategy: a form of sponsorship from Pepsi.

On Tuesday in Barcelona, Vueling presented its new Priority and Excellence classes, equipped with power and USB sockets. These new offers, which are similar to Premium and Business classes, are partly financed by a partnership with Pepsi, and illustrate the Spanish airline's strategy of moving upmarket while maintaining attractive fares. Alex Cruz, CEO of Vueling, explains his "plan" and why he believes it will succeed. 

On Thursday, the Short-Term Rental branch of the Conseil National des Professionnels de l'Automobile presented its 2014 results. While the recovery in the business travel sector has yet to materialise, the leisure segment and new forms of mobility - notably car-sharing - are contributing to market growth.

Air France presented its new medium-haul cabins in Stockholm on Wednesday. More elegant, and enhanced with a hot meal, the new offer should complete the upmarket strategy initiated on the long-haul network. A crucial new asset to win back business customers, for whom Air France is also unveiling the new "Economy Flex" fare.

Air Astana has been operating three flights a week between Paris and Astana since 29 March. The launch of this route is an opportunity for the Kazakh airline to review its strategy.

New aircraft, new destinations, new services: Alcino Ribeiro, Managing Director France of Air Europa, talks about the next stages in the airline's development, particularly in the business travel segment. 

Douala and Malabo are the first two African destinations to be served by the new BEST cabins offered since 7 April on board a Boeing 777-200.

All trains on the Rhônexpress - the shuttle that runs between Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport and the city centre - now offer free Wi-Fi to business travellers arriving in or leaving the capital of the Gauls.

Sophie Stabile has been Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Accor Group Executive Committee since 2010. From the new horizons explored by the French hotel operator through partnerships (China, Australia, Latin America) to the development of the group's brands, not forgetting the digital strategy and the new services that this is bringing, Sophie Stabile provides a comprehensive overview of the Accor group's strategy. Interview.

What are your links with the hotel industry? Dominique Perrault – In recent years, I built a tower in Barcelona that was transformed into a hotel...

ICAO, the international organisation in charge of civil aviation, is questioning the actual safety of Thai airlines, reporting "significant safety concerns in Thailand".

Air France-KLM presented the commercial offer of its Franco-French brand Hop! last Thursday in Lyon. With 27 routes to France and neighbouring countries, Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport is Hop!'s main hub alongside Paris Orly. The capital of the Rhone Valley was therefore the perfect place to unveil an aggressive new range of fares to win back domestic travellers.

Since 2009, hotel occupancy in London has exceeded 80 % year on year, and the spate of new openings has in no way disrupted the healthy state of the market. On the contrary, these hotels, which are often upmarket and very contemporary, only add to the appeal of the British capital.

Caen airport reported a marked increase in results for the first quarter of 2015, with a significant rise in passenger numbers (+17%) compared with the start of 2014.