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A flat in Milan near Corso Buenos Aires for €30 a night on 19 March instead of the usual €100, another flat for €72 near the Grand-Place in Brussels on the same dates... Bargains galore on the Airbnb website. The coronavirus effect is not reflected...

On February 19, a press release from UFI, the Union of International Fairs, indicated that, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the national authorities, the cancellation of major trade fairs and events in Europe, America, the Middle East and large parts of Asia was premature. Clear instructions had to be given...

Korean Air has just announced massive cuts to its flight schedule in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. In Europe, the airline has suspended flights to Milan and Zagreb, as well as services to Tel Aviv. Flights to Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna and Istanbul are being maintained, but the frequency has been revised to...

Not surprisingly, the international spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus is prompting companies to take drastic precautions. This was recently demonstrated by the trade fair sector, where major events such as the Geneva Motor Show and the ITB Berlin Tourism Fair were cancelled. This principle of...

From the point of view of business travellers, the main information to be retained from the press release published on Friday by Brussels Airlines concerns the airline's offer on the Italian market. As of 2 March, the Belgian carrier will be reducing the number of flights it offers to Northern Italy to 30% for the next two months.

What rights do passengers have if a flight is cancelled because of the coronavirus? Baptiste Lo-Presti - If the airline cancels a flight because of the coronavirus, the passenger is automatically entitled to a refund. On the other hand, if the passenger himself decides to abandon his flight,...

With each passing day, the death toll from coronavirus infection in China rises. But the next major victim could be... an airline. Bloomberg reported last week that China will be stepping up to the plate to help its air transport sector, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. The Chinese...

The well-being of business travellers has been one of the major trends in business travel for several months now. To adapt to the new expectations of companies, CWT has decided to turn to a specialist in jet lag to reduce its effects through a mobile application, Timeshifter, which is now available to the agency's customers...

EUROPE In Italy, on the morning of 25 February, the airports of Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Bergamo and Venice remained open to air traffic, despite the peak in the number of Covid-19 cases detected last weekend. Security measures have been in place at Italy's main airports since the end of January, including a ban on...

Things are moving very fast in Italy, where the number of cases of coronavirus was still being counted on the fingers of one hand on Thursday, and the tally topped 200 on Monday morning. In response to this sudden surge, the Italian authorities have placed around ten towns and cities under quarantine: Codogno, Casapusterlengo, Castiglione...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has done its sums. The outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is expected to have a severe impact on aviation activity worldwide, with the epicentre of the crisis obviously being in Asia. The initial assessment of the impact of COVID-19 shows a potential loss of 13 % in passenger demand...

According to the airline group, no fewer than 700 flights will be withdrawn from Singapore Airlines and its regional subsidiary Silk Air between March and the end of May. As the City-State is one of the cities most affected by the coronavirus, with 81 cases recorded as of 18 February, the...

The coronavirus has claimed another victim, this time in Hong Kong, where airlines are reviewing their global services and even temporarily suspending flights. The aim is to cope with a sharp fall in demand. Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, for example, has made drastic cuts to the number of...

While France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is recommending that French nationals postpone all non-urgent travel to China, which airlines are still flying to the world's second largest economy? More than 30 airlines have suspended their services to the People's Republic. Of these...

British Airways was the first to announce the suspension of its flights to Beijing and Shanghai on 28 January, followed by the Lufthansa group - including Austrian Airlines and Swiss - on 29 January. Air France in turn suspended its operations to China on 30 January, but will be operating special flights to...

The decision by the Chinese authorities on Tuesday morning to advise the population to stop travelling abroad will have extremely negative consequences for the economy, with the tourism industry obviously in the front row. In 2018, the number of Chinese travelling abroad reached 149 million, compared with 10.5 million in 2000....

Despite the radical measures taken by the Chinese authorities, the coronavirus has gained ground and taken on an international dimension. On 23 January, the government decided to quarantine the entire city of Wuhan, banning the population from leaving the Wuhan metropolitan area. ALSO READ: "Coronavirus...

What do we know about the coronavirus detected in China, and what remains to be defined? Philippe Guibert - Since 30 December, the Chinese authorities in Wuhan have noted an increase in the number of cases of pneumonia and respiratory infections, with clustered cases of people having visited the same market. The number of cases has risen in recent months...

As it does every year at the start of the new academic year, the Univ'AirPlus event brought together the world of business travel. Organised in partnership with BFM Business, the theme of the 2019 event, held at the Châteauform' City George V, was the well-being of the business traveller, a subject that is increasingly in the air these days, providing an opportunity to remind ourselves that the human being is...

Following on from last year's conference on blockchain, the 2019 edition of Univ'AirPlus will focus on a theme dear to the heart of business travellers: their well-being. Held on 5 September at the Chateauform City George V, this conference aims to decipher the human issues associated with business travel, with a view to putting - truly, says the specialist in payment solutions for business travellers - the...