Business travel

From 1 January 2025, Deutsche Bahn will be offering a new economy fare for business travellers registered on its bahn.business application.

After two years working with Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx on the Bar Inoui offer, the SNCF has ended the contract. His dishes are also no longer available in Business Première.

More than 300 destinations served by 12,000 weekly flights. That's the Lufthansa Group's programme for summer 2025. A programme that includes a new route for France: Montpellier-Zurich.

The low-cost, low-carbon easyHotel chain is continuing to expand in France with the opening of a fourth hotel in Marseille, in the Euromed business district.

The TGV Atlantique network will benefit from the use of new Océane trains and double trains to increase capacity on the TGV Inoui and Ouigo services.

The International Air Transport Association IATA has published the results of its worldwide passenger survey for 2024. The survey shows that travellers continue to prefer convenience and speed, thanks in particular to technology - including biometrics...

At a time when plans to increase taxation on air transport are being debated in Parliament, the Fédération nationale de l'aviation et de ses métiers (FNAM) and the Union des aéroports français (UAF) are unveiling a study on the socio-economic benefits of air transport in France.

Garner Hotels, the IHG Group's new mid-range brand, has made its debut in Germany. With around fifty hotels expected by mid-2025 as part of the partnership with Novum Hospitality.

The results from the leading hotel groups show a rebound in MICE and business travel, while leisure customers remain at high levels, but with growth tending to stagnate.

The SNCF unions have called for strike action to oppose the division of Fret SNCF into two companies from next January, and to oppose the opening up of regional services to competition.

The increase in the air transport solidarity tax approved by MEPs last week is provoking anger among pilots. A strike is looming on Thursday 14 November. One day earlier, there will be a rail strike in the Netherlands.

As a result of its ongoing problems with Rolls Royce, British Airways has been forced to make further cuts to its long-haul programme for the 2025 summer season.

Volotea is adding four new routes from its base in Brest. These include two business destinations. In Nice, easyJet is also expanding its network.

In a phase of consolidation, Air Austral is adjusting its winter schedule with modest growth in its offer in line with its return to financial equilibrium, according to Claire Tabakian, Executive Commercial Director/Chief Commercial Officer.

Paris CDG was the first airport in the world to welcome the first Airbus A321XLR, the long-haul version of the single-aisle aircraft launched by Spanish carrier Iberia.

Sofitel is continuing its expansion near the hubs of the British Isles with a future hotel connected to terminal 2 at Dublin airport. Another development already in the pipeline is a greet hotel in Brussels Zaventem.

Monaco could become the smallest country in the world to have a metro. A project launched by the Principality that could become a reality as early as 2031...

Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Americas: the Mama Shelter brand will be extending its lifestyle footprint to virtually every continent over the next two years.

With the renewal of its TGV catering contract, the Franco-Swiss rail company is entrusting two Michelin-starred chefs, Michel Roth and Danny Khezzar, with the development of its culinary offer in Business 1st as well as in the bar car for Standard and Standard 1st classes.

Norse Atlantic Airways, which tends to specialise in low-cost flights to the North Atlantic, has inaugurated its first route to the African continent with a flight from London Gatwick to Cape Town.