Business travel

Ryanair has signed a partnership agreement with B2B online site CarTrawler, enabling its passengers to hire vehicles at over 50,000 locations.

On 25 November, the Lufthansa group reopened its Premium Check-in area at Frankfurt airport. A completely modernised area in the heart of Terminal 1, Hall A. 

After Paris and London, the Experimental group is conquering Italy and Portugal with lifestyle hotels due to open in Rome and Porto in 2026.

Best Western France is expanding its myWO coworking brand with subscription packages tailored to mobile professionals.

The leading Parisian taxi operator is enhancing its application with customer profiles integrating different disabilities to provide better service. For its part, Transilien has had its Cap'Handéo certification renewed for a further five years, with new features for the Andilien app.

From Venice to Miami, from Orient Express to Ibis, Accor will be opening more and more hotels in 2026. Luxury, lifestyle and its historic brands will drive its global expansion.

The continuing tensions between the United States and Venezuela are affecting air transport. Iberia, TAP Air Portugal and Turkish Airlines are now banned from flying to Caracas.

The worldwide alert issued by Airbus requiring urgent software intervention on the flight control systems of Airbus A320 models suddenly brought 6,000 aircraft to a standstill. Nevertheless, Europe remained relatively unaffected.

SNCF is preparing for the arrival of future competitors by increasing frequencies and opening new routes, including for the first time an inter-regional TGV service on its Atlantic network.

Work worth €3.8 billion will be undertaken on the metro, RER and train networks to renovate the tracks and prepare for the arrival of ultra-modern trains.

SNCF's low-cost Ouigo service should account for a third of TGV traffic by 2030, thanks to a jump of 30% achieved with a fleet increased to 50 trains.

Two new lifestyle hotels in Lisbon, a hotel focused on MICE in the Algarve: the Hyatt group is starting to build a network in Portugal.

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) have presented their 2026 programme: services from Basel will see the biggest expansion for 20 years, while Lausanne will regain a number of routes, including a seasonal service to Marseille. 

Redesigned rooms, penthouse and suites with terraces, new bar-bistro: the long-awaited transformation of the Sofitel New-York has just been completed.

Hilton is strengthening its presence in the Paris region with the signing of the DoubleTree by Hilton Paris Boulogne. Scheduled to open in January, the hotel will offer 170 rooms and six meeting rooms.

Air Canada will be offering flights to the United States from Toronto city centre airport. And it is also launching flights on the Nantes-Montreal route for the summer season.

More discreet than its Norman counterpart, Deauville, the seaside resort of Le Touquet on the Côte d'Opale lends itself perfectly to the organisation of elegant seminars or small group conferences, with its enchanting urban setting, diverse MICE offering and the region's only five-star hotel, the Westminster, flagship of the Barrière group.

Renfe has withdrawn its low-cost Avlo service from Spain's main route due to technical problems with its new high-speed trains and commercial pressure from Ouigo Spain.

The SNCF has just unveiled a renovated and redesigned Intercités lounge at Paris Bercy station for 1st class passengers on the Paris-Clermont line.

Following in the footsteps of Air France-KLM and IAG, the Lufthansa group is now considering a stake in TAP Air Portugal. The German group is citing its success in integrating other European airlines.