Business travel

Vinci Airports began the year by publishing record results for 2024 at several of the airport hubs managed by the group.

On 7 January, Qatar Airways will resume its services to Damascus, after having interrupted the route for more than a decade. It is the first global airline to return to the Syrian capital.

Sergio Colella, President Europe of SITA, a global provider of information technology to the air transport industry, talks about the exceptional growth prospects for air transport. And that his company will be helping to improve the passenger experience for airlines and airports alike.

Growth forecasts for 2025, business customers, development in France and Europe, brand strategy: Eric Viale, Managing Director of IHG Southern Europe, presents the latest news from the hotel group.

The end of Lufthansa's feeder flights from Europe to the long-haul network of its competitor Condor is forcing Condor to launch domestic flights and flights to a handful of European destinations. But for how long?

Franck Monsauret is Managing Director of Uber for Business in France, DACH, Northern and Eastern Europe. He looks back on 2024 as a benchmark year, and is optimistic about 2025.

United is now offering the new Apple Share Item Location feature for the AirTag service in its mobile application. This enables the location of baggage to be tracked, particularly in the event of loss...

Chicago recently became the first American airport to welcome a business lounge in the colours of LOT Polish Airlines.

The roll-out of Lufthansa's new business cabin, Allegris, continues to encounter problems. After a delay of several years, the FAA is now refusing to certify the seats on a dozen brand new Boeing 787s.

On 22 December, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) inaugurated its first metro line. Vietnam's economic capital joins the exclusive club of Asian cities with an underground railway. It is in fact the 99th city in the Far East.

Airline consultant OAG has drawn up a report for 2024 on the world's busiest airlines in terms of number of seats. Asia occupies 7 of the top 10 places for international routes and 9 places in the top 10 for domestic routes.

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.