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London Gatwick is gradually becoming a strategic airport again for British Airways, through its subsidiary BA Euroflyer. Euroflyer, based at the South London airport, already has a fleet of 18 aircraft - Airbus A320s and A321s. This summer, the airline will be serving 48 destinations. In France, Euroflyer launched on 27...

London's events infrastructure is getting a makeover. While ExCel London is due to complete its extension works in October 2024, another MICE venue is set to follow in its footsteps shortly. The Barbican Centre has just received approval from the City of London Corporation to finance the launch of renovation works. This will involve improving the...

By October 2024, ExCeL London will have completed its transformation. This makeover will see the London convention centre add 25,000 m² to its already comfortable 100,000 m² surface area. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities for event organisers. But they won't necessarily have to wait for the official inauguration to plan their operation...

On Wednesday, Volotea launched its new Strasbourg-London route. It will be operational on 9 November. Volotea, which will operate to Gatwick airport, will thus be launching its first scheduled service to the United Kingdom. Volotea will be the only airline to offer this route. A route that will probably be of interest to business travellers from Strasbourg,...

The new system adopted by Eurostar in July is called "SmartCheck" and has been designed by iProov. Already being trialled from December 2021 to April 2022, it enables facial biometric passenger registration at London St Pancras station. It is reserved for Business Premier passengers and members of the...

Mandarin Oriental recently added a second address in London, and the Asian luxury group is already announcing a new destination for 2028, this time on the left bank of the Thames. Already established in the prestigious districts of Knightsbridge and Mayfair, Mandarin Oriental will be moving closer to the City...

Stansted has not given up on its expansion plans. Quite the contrary: on 3 July, the management of the London airport presented a new project. The previous project, drawn up in 2016 with the aim of being completed by 2020, was put on hold due to the lack of approval in time, and then because of the health crisis. The ambition...

Fairmont Hotels is extending its castle life in the British Isles. Alongside the Savoy in London, one of its main flagships along with the Plaza in New York and the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, the luxury brand could already boast some fine resorts nestling in vast estates with manicured lawns, such as the Fairmont...

This is the first major makeover to be given to the North terminal departure lounge since it opened in... 1988! London Gatwick's management has pulled out all the stops for this vast renovation, which was officially launched on Tuesday but work actually began at the end of May. No less than...

Its legendary façade, the view of the Mediterranean from its most beautiful suites, its private beach... And even its roof when all the cats are grey at night: the Carlton de Cannes served as a prestigious backdrop for the adventures of John Robie "The Cat" and Frances Stevens, alias Cary Grant and Grace...

As in France, budget hotels in the UK have performed well over the past year, as shown by the results just presented by the Whitbread Group, parent company of Premier Inn hotels, for the 2022-2023 financial year. With a growth in revenue per room of +27 % compared to 2020, its establishments have been able to...

The management of the ExCel London MICE complex is resolutely optimistic about the return of demand, particularly for in-house meetings. This is borne out by the latest Global Meetings & Events Forecast report published by the dedicated division of American Express GBT. It predicts that "in-house meetings will continue to be...

The next logical step for this brand inspired by Japanese-style capsule hotels, Yotel is due to open in the heart of Tokyo in 2024, in the Ginza district. Like a return to the seeds of the concept. "The importance that Japan places on technology and innovation has been an important source of inspiration for Yotel since its inception," says Yotel's CEO,...

Business travellers can expect major disruption to their journeys to and from London Heathrow airport at the end of the month. A pay dispute is due to lead to a ten-day strike. More than 1,400 security staff have voted in favour of the strike. It will begin on Friday 31 March, and will last...

The countdown is on for Norse Atlantic's arrival on the French market. At the end of the month, on 26 March to be exact, the new low-cost airline will land at Paris-CDG airport. It will operate a daily service to New York JFK. But it is on the other side of the Channel that Norse...

Meticulous in its choice of locations, Peninsula has only ten addresses in the world, all of them exclusive, such as 5th Avenue, Beverly Hills, the Bund, the Marunouchi district or Avenue Kleber in Paris, overlooking the Arc de Triomphe. It was in Paris, moreover, that the luxury hotel operator last opened its doors, and...

With around twenty luxury hotels around the world today and another thirty or so to come, the Six Senses brand, which became part of IHG following its acquisition in 2019, has no shortage of ambition. Not least because the future of this brand, launched in 1995 around exclusive resorts with a focus on sustainability and well-being, is being written...

Business travellers know Hertz for individual car hire. But the rental company's solutions also extend to larger-scale partnerships. Since 2016, Hertz has partnered with Uber to offer the platform's drivers preferential rates for weekly rentals including insurance and basic maintenance...

The Hyatt group has made no secret of its firm resolve to expand its offering in the EMEA region. And the start of 2023 has been extremely productive. After the opening of a Hyatt Regency in Izmir, with plenty of room for meetings, and the announcement of a new Unbound Collection member in Davos, the American group has just...

Berlin The Hoxton Charlottenburg (mid-2023) The innovative spirit of The Hoxton is perfectly in tune with the golden age of 1920s Berlin. And it is this theme that will serve as the common thread for the brand's first venture into the German capital. Located in the West, in the Charlottenburg district, the future The Hoxton revisits the...