Business travel

The Autorité de Régulation des Transports (ART) has published its review of 2023, a year marked by an increase in train use and fares, while service quality deteriorated. However, the ART welcomes the increase in services and the reduction in fares on the first lines to be opened up to competition.

Flightright, which specialises in passenger compensation, publishes an annual league table of airlines, ranging from the most reliable to the least reliable in terms of cancellations and delays. Overall, the results are unfavourable to traditional airlines.

The Radisson Group is opening a new top-of-the-range hotel in Africa, the Radisson Blu Conakry, with 282 rooms and extensive meeting space.

The SNCB is ten years late in inaugurating Mons station, which, like Liège station, was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

Carry-on baggage fee on US routes, free second baggage on international Comfort fares: Air Canada is changing its rules on 3 January 2025.

London Heathrow airport is to invest €2.8 billion in modernising the UK hub over the next two years.

The Marriott group has entered Senegal with the Courtyard by Marriott Dakar Diamniadio, as part of the dynamic development of this new centre of the Senegalese economy.

Orly will have little chance of finally experiencing the arrival of Ryanair next spring. The airline seems to have changed its mind...

The Crowne Plaza brand is continuing to expand in Asia-Pacific, particularly in Australia with new hotels at Sydney airport and in Adelaide.

This summer, Transavia will be adding 10 new routes from Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes and Lyon. These include several routes that are very popular with business travellers.

The Radisson group is strengthening its presence in France with two new hotels due to open in early 2025, one in Rueil-Malmaison and the other in Montpellier, both with MICE facilities.

The redesigned ibis Styles Abidjan Plateau and Marcory offer a new contemporary setting embodying local culture. In Cape Town, South Africa, the Radisson Blu Waterfront has been transformed into the Radisson Collection.

SNCF Gares & Connexions has unveiled a project to extend Marseille Saint-Charles station in response to an expected increase of 50% in passenger numbers.

Six years after it was discontinued, the Nancy-Lyon rail link is back in service, with a direct journey lasting 4? hours, with stops in Toul, Dijon, Chalon and Mâcon.

The ibis family of brands will complete its offer in Germany near Munich and Berlin airports as well as in Hamburg and Neckarsulm.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is complaining about the slow progress in producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), despite the fact that production is set to double to 1 million tonnes by 2024.

SNCF Voyageurs and Deutsche Bahn are offering a daily ICE 3 service on the Paris-Berlin line. The journey takes just over 8 hours, with stops in Strasbourg and Frankfurt.

French skies will be disrupted by a strike by air traffic controllers on 17 December, with cancellations and delays expected in Lyon and Ajaccio, and airports closed in Montpellier, Nîmes and Perpignan.

Since 14 December, the Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Euroairport has benefited from a public transport bus service to Lörrach in Germany via Saint Louis and Huningue in France.

The merger between Korean Air and Asiana no longer faces any restrictions, with the European Union giving the green light to Korean Air's takeover of Korea's second-largest carrier.