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United Aircraft Order Heralds Shift to Premium Seating, Bigger Planes
United Airlines has agreed to an order of 270 new aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus as part of long-term fleet plan to increase premium seating ...
Cvent, Uber for Business Partner for Attendee Vouchers
Users of meetings management technology provider Cvent now can create and distribute custom Uber for Business vouchers within the Cvent platform un...
Report: U.S. Extended-Stay Occupancy Nearly Reaches '19 Level
Occupancy at U.S. extended-stay hotels in April returned almost entirely to April 2019 levels, recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Kazakhstan's S**T Airlines Moves to Sabre Res Platform
Kazakhstani carrier S**T Airlines is moving to Sabre's passenger reservations system SabreSonic and its commercial platform per a new agreement wit...
TAP to Rebuild U.S. Network in July
TAP Air Portugal has expanded its service plans to North America for the summer and plans to restore service to all but one of its gateway airports...
WestJet to Grow Domestic Network in Coming Weeks
WestJet plans to significantly rebuild and add to its domestic network over the next few weeks, the carrier announced.
Singapore Airlines Launches Carbon-Offset Microsites
Singapore Airlines Group has launched a carbon-offset program that it plans to expand later this year to include its corporate customers, the carri...
Air Canada to Test Health Requirement Verification Tool on Frankfurt Routes
Air Canada next week will begin testing a mobile tool that validates health requirements for travelers, the carrier announced.
U.K. Says It Will Ease Quarantine for U.S., Other Arrivals
The United Kingdom this summer will begin to allow fully vaccinated travelers from the United States and other countries on the U.K.'s "amber list"...
Delta Adds At-Home Covid-19 Testing Option
Delta Air Lines has added a new Covid-19 home testing option for international travelers via a partnership with home healthcare technology provider...
Tripbam: Corp. Hotel Rates Set to Hit 2019 Levels by Year-End
Current business travel volume is about 30 percent of 2019 levels, and average daily hotel rates remain lower as well but are increasing, according...
Survey: U.S. Financial Execs Project Business Travel Rebound
More than one-third of the U.S. senior financial executives project their companies will restore pre-pandemic levels of business travel by the end ...
AmTrav, Emburse Join Forces for Travel Expense
Booking and travel management provider AmTrav and corporate expense management and payment specialist Emburse have partnered on an automated receip...
Convene Enhances Its Virtual Offerings
Meeting space provider Convene has enhanced its virtual meeting product launched last year, the company announced. Now dubbed Convene Studio, the s...
Qatar to Increase U.S. Service This Summer
Qatar Airways is increasing its network to the United States over the next month, the carrier announced.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Calls Corp. Travel Restart 'Top Priority,' Details Few
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Wednesday said that restarting business and international travel was a "top priority" of the federal go...
Southwest EVP Jordan to Succeed Kelly as CEO in 2022
Longtime Southwest Airlines chairman and CEO Gary Kelly next year will step down as chief executive officer, and Southwest EVP of corporate service...
CTM Restructures, Debuts New Global Business Units
Australia-based travel management company Corporate Travel Management has unveiled an organizational restructuring following its 2020 acquisitions ...
Delta, Kenya Airways Add More Codeshare Flights
Delta Air Lines and Kenya Airways have expanded their codesharing agreement to cover a total of 39 cities in Africa and North America.
AHLA Relaxes Mask Guidance for U.S. Hotel Employees, Chains Following Suit
The American Hotel & Lodging Association has eased its Safe Stay guidelines regarding mask wearing for U.S. hotel employees In response to updated ...
FCM to Launch New Platform in China
FCM will roll out a new proprietary travel technology platform in China, with plans to begin piloting the system with corporate clients in July, th...
Norwegian Names Geir Karlsen CEO
Norwegian Air Shuttle has announced that CEO Jacob Schram would be replaced by current chief financial officer Geir Karlsen, effective immediately....
TAMS Chooses Six Inaugural Incubator Participants
The Travel and Meetings Society incubator committee has chosen the first six participants for its startup program, confirmed committee co-founder a...
STR: U.S. Hotel Recovery Accelerates in May
All three key performance metrics for the U.S. hotel industry—occupancy, average daily rate and revenue per available room—improved from April and ...
Concur Survey: Travelers Want Post-Pandemic Policy Changes
As business travel begins to resume in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the vast majority of travelers are willing to get back on the road, but t...
GBTA Survey: Many Cos. Traveling or Plan To Soon
More than two in five member companies surveyed this month by the Global Business Travel Association already have restarted nonessential domestic b...
Egencia Adds Rail Option Alert to Booking Display
Egencia has developed a new display tool to show business travelers and agents the availability of rail options when booking short-haul flights....
New HRS Payments Growth Chief Knackstedt Sees Opportunity In Recovery
When corporate travel industry veteran Kurt Knackstedt recently took over as chief growth officer for HRS's Payment Solutions business unit, it bec...
Star Alliance, SITA, NEC Unite to Expand Airport Biometric Tech
The Star Alliance has signed an agreement with airline IT provider SITA and technology firm NEC Corp. to expand the use of airport biometric proces...
Flight Centre Partners with HotelHub
Flight Centre Travel Group has signed a deal with aggregator technology specialist HotelHub to provide booking content for Flight Centre's travel m...
Troop Partners with Riskline for Destination Safety, Security Data
After partnering with Thrust Carbon earlier this month for meetings emissions data, meetings technology provider Troop has partnered with security ...
Southwest Resuming Operations After Glitch Causes Ground Stop
Southwest Airlines reported that it was "resuming normal operations" on Tuesday afternoon after a technical issue led the Federal Aviation Administ...
Air Canada Plans Domestic Route Growth for Summer
Air Canada plans to rebuild its domestic network to cover a total 50 Canadian airports over the summer, including restarting several seasonal route...
U.S. Travel: 35 Percent of U.S. Businesses Engaging in Travel
About 35 percent of U.S. businesses are currently engaged in any business-related travel, said U.S. Travel Association president and CEO Roger Dow ...
Copa Increasing U.S. Network in June
Copa Airlines this month is adding frequencies on six routes to the United States from Panama.
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