Business travel

The results of the Skytrax World Airport Awards are in, confirming for the fourth time in a row Paris CDG's leadership as Europe's best airport. Singapore Changi regains its world title.

AirHelp has published its first-quarter report on air punctuality at French airports. Corsica, Bordeaux, Basel-Mulhouse and Toulouse are the best performers.

Accor is teaming up with IndiGo's parent company, the InterGlobe conglomerate, to accelerate its development in India.

Paris-Beauvais is the fastest-growing airport in France. Hence the urgent need to transform itself to bring it closer to the major international airports, as Anthony Martin, Executive Chairman of Bellova, the Egis subsidiary that manages the airport, explains.

ADP, Beauvais: what will the Greater Paris airports look like in ten years' time? A look at the plans for the various hubs, with moderate expansion at CDG and Orly and more ambitious plans at Beauvais.

Business and leisure travel to Greece was once again disrupted on 9 April by a strike.

Italian railways are in the process of launching a high-speed rail service between the two capitals as soon as the trains are available and authorisations have been granted on both sides of the Channel.

Relaunched by Accor, the Orient Express brand has just opened its first hotel in Rome. It is a new luxury destination with 93 rooms and suites, as well as several reception areas for exclusive events.

Located between Parc Monceau and Les Batignolles in Paris, La Fondation is laying the foundations for a new urban lifestyle, combining a five-star hotel, offices and a sports club. All designed by a leading name in lifestyle hotels, Roman and Williams.

The Spanish company is continuing its battle with SNCF and the French government by not starting operations on this seasonal route between the pink city and the Catalan capital this month.

Athens will be giving its international airport a new dimension by 2032 with extensive expansion works.

New hotels in France and Germany, expansion on the Iberian peninsula, stadium hotels in the UK: the Radisson group is strengthening its presence in Europe.

China takes pole position in the race for flying taxis. Unmanned vehicles from local manufacturer EHang have been certified to launch commercial flights.

Reginald Otten, easyJet's deputy managing director for France, believes that Air France's withdrawal from Orly will make the carrier even more attractive to business travellers. But the tax increase could derail demand on domestic routes.

The future of the Lutetia is officially in the hands of the Mandarin Oriental group, which is doubling its offering in Paris by taking over management of the Left Bank's only luxury hotel.

The Hilton group is making its Parisian luxury hotel debut with SAX Paris, a prestigious new address on the Left Bank boasting a unique rooftop overlooking the Eiffel Tower.

Bordeaux airport will see easyJet inaugurate two new destinations, two European capitals that should attract business customers.

Despite the increase in the solidarity tax, low-cost carrier Volotea is gaining ground on the French domestic network... to the detriment of important routes to European business destinations.

Between its all-inclusive resorts for seminars and events and its urban luxury and lifestyle hotels, Hyatt offers a wide range of possibilities for business travel in Southern Europe.

Recently reappointed as Chairman of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur, Franck Goldnadel takes stock of the return of business travellers to Nice, and the issues surrounding the region's connectivity.