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Ahead of the Univ'AirPlus event - to be held on Thursday 8 September at the Jardin d'Acclimatation on the theme "Travelling or doing something for the planet, should you choose? - the corporate payment specialist has just announced the integration of the AirPlus Corporate Card into Apple Pay. While Apple's payment solution is now accepted...

How do you feel about developments in the airline industry? Sergio Colella - The desire to start travelling again is there. I've just come back from two or three trips to Europe and for the first time I've seen queues at airports. I have to say that it's quite pleasing...

A few days ago, Amadeus published a study highlighting the expectations of the business travel community with regard to the health pass for the resumption of business travel. However, these digital certificates are not the only measures attracting the attention of business travellers, according to the new...

Grounded for more than a year by the health crisis, the French are looking for the key that will enable them to travel again for business or pleasure. And the digital health passport now seems to embody this solution for lifting restrictions on international travel, as shown by the growing number of initiatives...

The "Travel Pass" club continues to expand to new horizons: a few days after the announcement of its adoption by the Singaporean authorities, it is now the turn of Latin America to experiment with the solution promoted by IATA. Iberia intends to be at the forefront, with a trial launched on the Madrid-Montevideo route. The...

American Airlines has just announced a series of tests deployed at its Dallas Fort Worth hub, with a common denominator: the contactless passenger journey. The airline intends to change the airport experience in order to regain the trust of travellers: "While fewer customers have travelled over the past year, our...

Are touch screens on the way out? The fact remains that the health crisis has highlighted the limitations of this technology, which is practical but potentially guilty of spreading the virus... Qatar Airways has therefore just announced on 22 February that it will be using contactless in-flight entertainment technology for Oryx One. "The introduction...

It's one of the major technological trends linked to Covid-19: contactless technology is making a quantum leap over touch screens, in response to obvious health constraints, particularly in the places most frequented by business travellers, such as airports and hotels. So Samsung is bringing itself up to date with a...

Emirates is fine-tuning its "contactless" passenger experience with the introduction of contactless check-in kiosks. A total of 16 kiosks are now available at the Dubai hub, more specifically in the economy class check-in area of terminal 3. The First and Business Class check-in areas will be...

The health situation has prompted Emirates to step up its efforts in the field of biometrics, to make the passenger experience more fluid. For several days now, the airline has been offering a new "biometric route", based on a technology combining facial and iris recognition. This technology is to be applied to all airport procedures, from the...

Already an essential part of the business traveller's toolkit, the smartphone is acquiring a new status in these times of health crisis. Just as catering services are turning to digital ordering, hotels are using mobile tools to protect their customers by limiting the number of interactions required. The trendy citizenM brand has...