travel fares

As might be expected given the inflationary environment, 2023 will have cost companies more in terms of expense claims. The new Expensya Barometer attests to this, pointing to a significant increase in the amount employees spend: 8.75 %. The number of expenses also increased last year, by...

What is the situation regarding the return of international trade show business to pre-crisis levels? Corinne Moreau - International trade shows are still 10 to 20% behind 2018. This is not specific to France either. The Germans, who are our main competitors,...

After a 2023 marked by both the gradual return of business travel and widespread inflation, 2024 could be the year of stabilisation. This is the trend that emerges from the Air Monitor 2024 report published on Monday by American Express GBT: "In all regions, fluctuations in fares are expected to stabilise....

After an average fare increase of 5% in 2023, SNCF is set to increase its Inoui TGV fares again next year. However, this increase will have to be limited to the rate of inflation, i.e. 2.6%, according to the government's wishes. SNCF Voyageurs is unlikely to be happy with this framework, as it will have to...

Closing the Covid chapter in the airline offer once and for all. That's what FCM Consulting, a major player in travel management, is anticipating. The company is in fact a partner for thousands of national and multinational organisations, including many of the major national brands in the CAC 40. The increase in air capacity should finally make it possible to redress the imbalance between...

More than 800 business travel professionals responded to the appeal launched last October by the GBTA (Global Business Travel Association). All of these testimonies now make it possible to "take the temperature" of the market, with the aim of returning to the travel volumes seen before the health crisis. Without...

In mid-July, Renfe began services on the Lyon-Barcelona and Marseille-Barcelona-Madrid routes. One year after the arrival of Trenitalia and its Frecciarossa operating on the Paris-Lyon-Milan route, the launch of the Spanish national carrier on French rail represents a new stage in the opening up to rail competition, which will be possible from December 2020. Following the applications...

The IFTM Top Résa event closed its doors on Thursday evening, at the end of three days rich in information for professionals in the sector. Alongside the presentation of the first Meetings & Events barometer published by Kactus, another study looked at the major trends in business travel. Based on...

The government's budget announcement of a special tax on airports (as well as on motorway concession companies) should inevitably result in higher air fares. The government estimates that this green tax will bring in €600 million a year. This sum will be allocated to modernising the network...

In an interview with the weekly magazine L'Obs, French Transport Minister Clément Beaune talks about plans to impose a minimum fare on airlines within the European Union. The aim is to "combat social and environmental dumping". And to encourage rail travel, which is considered to be more environmentally friendly. A €10 flight? Unknown...

The European section of the 2023 Cvent Travel Managers report is based on the testimonies of some 600 managers in six European markets. In addition to France, the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands were also surveyed. And, unsurprisingly, after having focused on health issues during the crisis, the control of...

Do the findings of the latest MPI barometer seem to you to be in line with the trends you are seeing in the French market? Véronique Holveck - The MPI barometer, the "Meetings Outlook", is consolidated on a quarterly basis among our active members who are MICE planners - including professional congress organisers (PCOs) -...

After months of increases - some of them brutal - are business travel prices on the way to stabilising? And should these substantially higher prices become the new norm for the years to come? This is one option being considered by the authors of the 2024 Global Business Travel report...

79 out of 112 routes where the plane is cheaper than the train. This is the surprising finding of a Greenpeace study that compared air and rail in Europe. And this at a time when the European Union and national authorities are constantly hammering home the need to favour rail over air. But in...

The trend will not have escaped the attention of French businesses: 2022 will have been a year of high car hire costs, to say the least. The Ground Monitor report published by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) confirms this surge in prices. The price study even estimates the increase in car hire prices at +15.4 %....

On the morning of 30 June, JetBlue's Airbus A321LR landed on the tarmac at CDG for the first time. Paris thus becomes the second stage in the New York airline's transatlantic offensive, after London. And now Amsterdam. JetBlue's aim is to offer a brand new positioning, and to shake things up in the French market,...

Relations between airlines and airports are rarely rosy. So while the airline association IATA was celebrating a return to juicy profits, its airport equivalent, the ACI, was lamenting the rise in air fares. Particularly in Asia. According to a study by the ACI Asia-Pacific on trends in air fares,...

According to FCM, the world of business travel is returning to the habits it had before the health crisis, with flight frequencies picking up again and hotel occupancy rates approaching the norm. The business travel agency recently published its Global Trends Report, which summarises...

On Tuesday, the Chaire Pégase, dedicated to the economics and management of air transport and attached to Montpellier Business School, presented its new report on the acceptability of green innovations in the air transport sector. And for an event organised at Roissy during a month of May that is not the most studious, the audience gathered at the...

In order to offer its passengers wider fare options, at the best price, and with more choice, Air France-KLM is introducing a Light fare option in the Business cabin and on Premium Comfort (KLM) and Premium Economy (Air France) classes. The fare naturally offers all the in-flight services and comfort of these classes...