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Transavia is sending out a strong signal to its business customers with the integration of the Fast Track service. Max ticket holders can now check in and pass through security and safety checks with priority access. Already operational at Paris-Orly, Eindhoven and Rotterdam, 'Fast Track...

In mid-summer, the public establishment of the Château de Versailles launched a call for tenders to convert three buildings into a hotel - the Grand Contrôle, designed by Mansart, the Petit Contrôle and the "pavillon des premières cent marches" - along the Orangerie. These former administrative premises, used for a time by the Ministry of Justice,...

The Iberia group is paying particular attention to French business travellers. In addition to the seven daily flights operated by Iberia between Orly airport and Madrid, the Iberia Express subsidiary will be setting off from Paris-CDG airport on 7 September to supply the Madrid hub. Flights will be operated daily using A320s, with capacity for up to 180 passengers.

The AC Marriott Stade Vélodrome hotel, due to open in January, will have 126 rooms (including 9 junior suites). The four-star establishment is counting on the expected peak in visitor numbers around the famous stadium in Marseille during Euro 2016. In the longer term, the hotel group also has high hopes for the market...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car's new mobile application is now available free of charge on iOS and Android in France. Its interface, featuring a 'quick start' dashboard, is designed to anticipate users' needs, by analysing their search and booking history to better guide them through the range of services available...

Those in favour of extending Heathrow airport are smiling: the figures speak for themselves. The London hub has just published record results for July, with 7.29 million passengers (+4.7% compared with July 2014). The highest daily peaks were also reached last month,...

With 180 events hosted, bringing together some 40,000 visitors to whom no less than 5,000 litres of coffee will have been served, 2014 will not have been an easy year for l'Embarcadère, this atypical events venue well known to Lyon's professionals. However, the former barge renovation workshop wants to think bigger, grow faster...

Summer 2015 is smiling on easyJet, which has just published its results for July. In particular, the airline posted a clear increase (9.4%) compared with July 2014. A total of 7,036,470 passengers used the airline last month, compared with 6,434,284 in July...

For once, business travel helped make the second quarter of 2015 a good one for Eurostar, with business traffic up 10%, noticeable on both sides of the Channel. As a result, the rail company welcomed the highest number of passengers ever recorded over a period of...

Do meetings and summertime go well together? This is the question posed by Bird Office in its new study, "Summer at the office", based on 1,120 testimonials. "As you might expect, [meetings] are less productive than the rest of the year, except for 20% who consider that their company meetings are effective, even in summer...

Bordeaux airport is riding a wave of success this summer 2015. A monthly record (524,300 passengers in June), a weekly record (127,700 passengers in the first week of July) and a daily record (22,300 passengers on 10 July): the Bordeaux hub is experiencing an unprecedented peak in passenger numbers. Bordeaux airport explains these...

The seasonal Brussels-Reykjavík route, launched by Icelandair in 2010, will become permanent from 25 October. The Icelandic airline will then operate 3 flights a week between the two capitals, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Departure from Brussels is at 12.50pm, arriving in Reykjavík at 3.15pm. Flights from Iceland are...

At the end of June, the brand new Thalys lounge finally set up shop in a building next to the Gare du Nord, at 22 rue de Dunkerque to be exact. The lounge benefits from being very close to the platforms (1 min), while taking up residence in a...

With its 206 independent city-centre hotels and 13 contemporary Urban Style hotels, Citotel has what it takes to attract a business clientele looking for good-value establishments. With this in mind, the voluntary chain has recently joined the Infinite Hotels and iAlbatros reservation centres. "As our network was already present...

With the six new routes unveiled on 25 June, easyJet is one step closer to the symbolic milestone of 200 routes offered from the French market, where the airline is now present in 19 airports. The orange carrier is preparing to launch on the Lille - Lisbon route, offering three weekly flights from 27 June....

The Spanish NH Group's trendy, high-tech brand has just been chosen by the RAI congress centre to manage a 650-room hotel, the largest in the Benelux, at the very heart of the exhibition centre. However, we will have to wait until 2018 to appreciate its futuristic lines, designed by Rem...

The merger with US Airways has been official since December 2013. What has changed since then? Craig Dewey - A lot has changed for American: we've created the biggest and best network, we've integrated the largest number of codeshares worldwide. We've also merged our salons...

"Male, young, urban and comfort-conscious": this is how Aparthotels Adagio sums up the "typical" French business traveller, based on a survey published on 23 June by the aparthotel specialist. The survey, carried out between 11 and 17 May among 1,749...

The Mistral is getting a new lease of life, thanks to the SNCF, which has launched the iconic train onto the MICE market. The vintage stainless steel train has a restaurant carriage, a bar car and several other carriages adapted to receive the public. The Mistral can be positioned on request in a station or in a...

Located close to terminal 1 and accessible via the CDGVAL, this neighbourhood of offices, shops and hotels will see the opening of three new accommodation complexes between now and 2018. The first is based on the complementary nature of two Starwood brands: Aloft, which is purely hotel-based and very Generation Y, and Element, which is positioned...