NYC To Test Southwest Effect
12.08.2008 - Southwest Airlines' plan to make its New York City debut through the purchase of 14 slots at LaGuardia Airport has spurred corporate travel buyers' hopes that the carrier's presence will lower fares in the biggest U.S. business market.
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Profiles In Travel Management: UnitedHealth Adds Heavy Dose Of Travel Technology
12.08.2008 - UnitedHealth Group this year implemented a new online booking system in conjunction with pre-trip authorization and ticket tracking tools, which the company estimates, along with the three-year renewal of its travel management company contract with American Express Business Travel, would save several million dollars this year.
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Demand Drop Hits Convention Hotels Hard
12.08.2008 - Convention hotels' revenue and rates are faring worse than those of the overall hotel industry, according to recently published data from Smith Travel Research, and reduced group booking demand in 2009 will bring further declines. This will mean better pricing for buyers, although convention hoteliers are likely to take an even more hard-line approach on such terms as cancellation clauses and food and beverage minimums.
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No Reset For 2009 Travel Budgets
12.08.2008 - All signs are pointing to a corporate travel budget hangover that will last well into 2009. Unlike in previous years, many companies won't reverse year-end cutbacks and recharge travel budgets, because they don't expect business to pick up in the first quarter.
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One-On-One With Sabre's Martin Cowley: Sabre Employs EMEA Growth Strategies
12.08.2008 - Martin Cowley, Sabre senior vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, spoke with BTN editor-in-chief David Meyer at October's Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Rome about Sabre's prospects for growth in Europe. Cowley took on his current role about one year ago, after a career that includes nearly 20 years at Cathay Pacific.
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Buyer's Choice: Best In Region Vs. One Tool
12.08.2008 - Global travel buyers face a dilemma: Either satisfy local demand by choosing the best booking tool in each region or insist on implementing a single tool to reap all the benefits of consolidation. Even as tools popular in Europe struggle to grow marketshare in the United States, European travel managers are showing continuing, if not increased, resistance to U.S. booking tools (BTNonline, Nov. 24).
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BTN Special Research: Benchmarking Europe's Biggest
11.17.2008 - The second annual Business Travel News/Association of Corporate Travel Executives European benchmarking report builds on a baseline of data and provides a vivid snapshot of the travel buying and management habits of major corporations that each spend more than €20 million—and, in most cases, considerably more than that—annually on European-booked air travel alone. Sponsored in part by Travelport and ACTE.
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Financial Fallout Flips '09 Forecasts
11.17.2008 - Revised and recent pricing forecasts from analysts and travel management companies project a more favorable environment for business travel buyers in 2009 than previous predictions. The newer outlook follows a reversal of fortune, as business travel demand deteriorates and oil prices moderate.
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One-On-One With British Airways CEO Willie Walsh: Corp. Cutbacks, Carrier Pacts
11.17.2008 - British Airways CEO Willie Walsh this month spoke with BTN senior editor Jay Boehmer to discuss premium travel, the nature of corporate client cutbacks and the status of new business agreements with other carriers.
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U.S. Tools Meet European Resistance
11.17.2008 - Facing sustained criticism from European travel managers that their products remain inadequate for the European marketplace, United States-based booking tool providers GetThere and Concur Cliqbook say they have improved rail sourcing capabilities and added other content not available through global distribution systems.
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Credit Crunches Corp. Cards
11.17.2008 - Tightening credit availability as a result of the global financial crisis could hinder corporate travel and entertainment card negotiations, particularly for small and midmarket companies looking to implement new programs. Simultaneously, the crisis could bring new opportunities for buyers, with consolidation giving some bank players new strength in the market, the potential for banks to focus more on the corporate credit side of their business and new opportunities with alternatives to traditional corporate cards.
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11th Annual Airline Survey: Continental Edges Out American For BTN Survey Honors
11.17.2008 - Corporate travel buyers this year conferred on Continental Airlines the highest marks in overall performance for negotiating and delivering airline services. The carrier dominated only two of nine categories measured in Business Travel News' 11th annual survey, but consistent performance across the board put the carrier in a position to edge out American Airlines by four hundredths of a point.
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BTN Special Research Issue: The 2008 Corporate Traveler
10.20.2008 - It has been six years since Business Travel News last took the measure of corporate travel policy compliance, service expectations and technology use, along with business travel buyer insight on policy compliance and traveler behavior, and what we have found in 2008 shows marked differences from our last and previous studies: Frequent travelers are taking fewer trips and spending fewer nights on the road than in the past, but they are following their companies' travel policies more than ever. Sponsored in part by American Express Business Travel.
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Financial Crisis Ices Corporate Travel
10.20.2008 - Fueled by a financial crisis that continued to broaden this month, many companies have enacted further plans to cut trips and draw down travel budgets. As some travel buyers instituted across-the-board travel freezes or flying reductions, others have further tightened the screws on policy and ramped up enforcements to shave costs.
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One-On-One: TSA Administrator Kip Hawley Preps His Final Initiatives (With Web-Only Excerpts)
10.20.2008 - Kip Hawley, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, spoke with BTN senior editor Jay Boehmer this month to discuss the state of transportation security, and the soon-to-be-implemented Secure Flight passenger prescreening system.
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Booking Tools Automate Ticket Changes
10.20.2008 - Online booking tool providers during the next several months plan to add capabilities that automatically process air ticket voids and exchanges, which could reduce service fees and processing times and offer greater price accuracy and transparency at the point of sale. As a result, travel buyers who long have awaited more robust automation of online ticket changes could push online usage even higher and significantly reduce their corporations' unused ticket liability.
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BTN Bestows Int'l Honors On Intel
10.20.2008 - Business Travel News this month named Intel global strategic sourcing mobility manager Megan Stowe the 2008 International Travel Manager of the Year during the opening session of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Rome.
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Marriott To Export E-Folio Data Capabilities
10.20.2008 - This month, Marriott International confirmed that it is poised become the first multibrand company to extend its electronic folio data capabilities outside of the United States as it upgrades and furthers the international integration of its property management systems.
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