Business travel

With rail traffic severely disrupted from 24 to 26 November, particularly for Eurostar trains, and no departures from Brussels airport on Wednesday, Belgium is set to experience three days of sustained strike action.

Malaysia Airlines has been back in Paris since 22 March 2025, with a daily flight to and from Kuala Lumpur by Airbus A350-900. Test bed for its 'Plus' economy class.

The lifestyle brand The Hoxton is moving into the Central Hotel in Dublin. In Spain, the brand will succeed the ME by Meliá in Madrid's Santa Ana Square during 2026.

EasyJet has announced the launch of 16 new routes for summer 2026 from eight UK airports. These include three routes between France and the UK. It is also preparing to launch 5 other routes from France to the Mediterranean basin.

Asia, Europe, Middle East: the Minor group has just announced some of its hotel openings for 2026, notably for the Anantara and NH Collection brands.

The Spanish government wants to increase train speeds to 350 kph to provide a 2-hour journey between the country's two main cities.

The Hilton Honors program recognizes its most loyal members with a new status, Diamond Reserve. At the same time, Gold and Diamond status are becoming more readily available.

With more and more passengers switching from planes to trains within Europe, the European Union wants to accelerate this trend. It will be promoting a major investment plan for a network of high-speed trains between now and 2040. This will make it possible to link all the major European capitals within an average journey time of between 3 and 6 hours, depending on the distance. 

The Dubai Air Show saw the Emirate's two airlines, Emirates and flydubai, place giant orders for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It also gave Emirates the opportunity to announce the accelerated integration of the Starlink connectivity system on all its aircraft.

The SNCF's new Optimum class, designed for affluent business and leisure travellers, will replace the Business 1ère from 8 January with a "Plus" version on the Paris-Lyon route.

While the rise in taxes in the airline industry is limiting the opening of new routes, Sealar, which manages seven regional airports, is encouraging the creation of air routes from small hubs.

On the occasion of the fund-raising and strategic partnership with TotalEnergies, David Vanden Born, co-founder and CEO of Onepark, talks about the positioning of his company and its ambitions to transform the parking sector.

According to the FNAM, rising taxes and high operating costs are undermining French air transport. And it's jeopardising the tourism and economic vocation of the Maison France. Without seeming to move the political world.

With 107 hotels by the end of 2025, including 84 in partnership with Zenitude, Choice Hotels has set its sights on France. David Beers, CEO for the EMEA region, and Ricardo Losada Revol, CEO of the international division, give details of the group's development strategy in France and Europe.

Last weekend saw the demise of another British regional airline, Blue Islands. Last spring, it had launched its first flights between St Helier, the capital of Jersey, and Paris-CDG...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government has finally decided to halt the haemorrhaging of German air transport by adopting new measures, including lower taxes.

Brussels airport has published improved results across the board for the month of October.

With the agreement on funding for the US federal administration signed on the evening of 12 November, federal civil servants will be returning to work, particularly the 13,000 air traffic controllers. Air traffic restrictions remain in force, but should be completely lifted next week. 

French-speaking markets are benefiting from a number of new developments from Finnair. The most important announcement is the airline's return to Luxembourg. And direct winter flights from Paris and Brussels to Lapland. 

The Oh Baby brand, a new lifestyle hotel concept launched by Serge Trigano, is due to open on the outskirts of Paris, in Saint-Ouen, at the end of 2027.