Business travel

Thanks to its partnership with Novum Hospitality in Germany, IHG is launching its Candlewood Suites long-stay brand in Europe, initially in Berlin, with a further fifteen or so establishments to follow.

Accor will be launching a booking platform for meetings and events by the end of the year. New features will be available in early 2026.

New hotels have been added to the European network of the ibis family of brands, some near airports or convention centres, others in city centres.

Since 18 May, Uganda Airlines has been operating four weekly flights between Entebbe and London Gatwick.

This is the smallest of the lounges reserved for Air France-KLM Business and Flying Blue Elite Plus passengers at Roissy Charles de Gaulle. Located in Terminal 2G, reserved for regional flights, this lounge offers everything you would expect from the French airline's ground services at its hub. Testbed on 28 April 2025 as part of Air France flight AF1476 to Bilbao, departing at 08:45.

Already boasting numerous flights linking France to Morocco, Air France's low-cost carrier Transavia will be expanding its services from the Kingdom of Morocco this winter. This includes offering flights to European cities for the first time.

A breakdown in the air traffic control system at Orly affected traffic on Sunday, and will also affect it on Monday, the DGAC having asked the airlines to reduce their 15% schedule on 19 May.

The contemporary Okko brand is helping to revitalise the area around Troyes station with the opening of a 106-room hotel with two meeting rooms at the beginning of June.

Already one of the leading hotel groups in Africa, the Radisson group is pursuing its development on the continent with continued expansion in Morocco and South Africa and new hotels announced in Yaoundé, Kinshasa and Lumumbashi.

Manchester Airport is preparing to renovate Terminal 3, while continuing to rebuild Terminal 2.

The International Airline Association (IATA) is launching a programme to improve the handling and tracking of passengers' baggage. A rather good idea, given that tens of millions of baggage items are damaged every year...

New impetus for business customers, expansion of the network, new concepts: the Adagio apartment-hotel brand has presented its new 2025-2030 strategic plan.

The Radisson Collection luxury brand has arrived in France with the transformation of the Cour des Loges, an emblematic hotel in the heart of Vieux Lyon.

United Airlines has introduced the new generation of its United Polaris Suite cabin. Called United Elevated, the programme reinvents the experience of top-of-the-range international travel in business class, with exclusive suites.

Accor and Brazilian airline Azul have strengthened their partnership by offering a Points + Miles cross-accumulation scheme between their two loyalty programmes.

The Hilton Group is expanding its offering in the Paris region with a lifestyle hotel in Val D'Europe, the Dali Val d'Europe (Tapestry Collection), with 94 rooms and two meeting rooms.

In Belfast, Cork and Dublin, projects are multiplying to improve the passenger experience at Ireland's main airports.

Korean Air is working on flying taxis with the construction of an R&D centre dedicated to urban air mobility (UAM).

As the first stage in a vast programme to renovate its lounges at its Hong Kong hub, the Hong Kong airline is unveiling a brand new experience with the reopening of The Bridge lounge.