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Citing the June 1 expiration of the American Airlines-Sabre 'stand-down' and possible Aug. 31 termination of AA's agreements with Sabre and Travelport, Carlson Wagonlit Travel informed clients it may need [...]

TRAVELPORT LTD. executives late last month raved about corporate travel demand during a conference call with investors and analysts about the company's fourth-quarter 2010 results, which included a $69 million [...]

American Airlines listings returned to Expedia as the companies last week announced a memorandum of understanding in which Expedia would use technology from a GDS to access the airline's direct [...]

Travelport executives last week raved about corporate travel demand during a conference call with investors and analysts about the company's fourth-quarter 2010 results, which included a $69 million net loss [...]

NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF CUSTOMERS visiting Frontier Airlines' website choose a higher-priced fare to obtain such benefits as seat assignments, free bag checks and full refunds, but this bundled approach still [...]

AMADEUS, ITA SOFTWARE, Radixx and Sabre are among several technology providers expected to respond this month to an Aer Lingus request for information on passenger service systems, including reservations and [...]

OFFICIALS WITH EXPEDIA AND ORBITZ this month highlighted strong performance and prospects in their corporate travel units, even as analysts and investors have picked up on a weaker outlook for [...]

Flight Centre USA in December announced it acquired full ownership of Garber Travel in Boston, paying $10.4 million for the 74 percent of the company it did not already own. [...]

The Global Business Travel Association (formerly the National Business Travel Association) last month welcomed as a 'positive step' the decision by American Airlines and Sabre Travel Network to postpone their [...]

FORTY-FIVE PERCENT of travel buyers polled last month said they were researching options for providing mobile travel management programs, while 19 percent already have such systems and 6 percent plan [...]

Travelport expanded claims in its lawsuit against American Airlines, first filed in early November, to include the accusation that by providing Kayak.com in January a 10% discount program that travelers [...]

AIRLINES AS PART OF corporate negotiations are tightening up on granting loyalty program elite status, a benefit that gained new value in recent years as such status exempted many frequent [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Travel industry analysts are recommending to corporate travel managers that moderate business airfare increases are in order for 1999, following what appears to have been a peak in [...]

Even as Asia/Pacific's standing as the golden realm of aviation expansion is being tarnished by the ongoing economic crisis, the fortunes of Latin America are rising. The International Air Transport [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Customers of Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are reviewing early drafts of a joint international zone fare program that soon would cover the entire route network [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Following the demise of low-cost, no-frills new entrants Air South, Western Pacific and Pan Am, it would seem the prospects of new entry in the airline industry are [...]

JAY CAMPBELL As corporate travel managers are asked by their information services departments to ensure that travel suppliers will beat the Year 2000 reprogramming deadline, speculation abounds about whether the [...]

AA, UA Join Forces, Continental Races To Forge Interlining Capabilities JAY CAMPBELL American and United Airlines last week announced they are working together on electronic ticket interlining and will make [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Redwood Shores, Calif. - In its first major air travel policy change in eight years, Oracle Corp. on March 26 took the rare step of mandating the use [...]

The corporate travel community last month welcomed the Department of Transportation's proposed guidelines on anticompetitive airline practices as a beginning toward a more equitable airline industry. The Association of Corporate [...]

American Airlines as of June 1 will no longer issue boarding passes before the day of travel. Corporate travelers who wish to board AA flights without stopping at a ticket [...]

Newest Domestic Alliances Stop Short For Fear Of Antitrust Lawsuits The latest pairings of gigantic domestic airline partners are leaving behind the very benefit to corporate buyers the alliance concept [...]

While Airbus, Boeing and other aircraft manufacturers over the past year have seen a surge in orders, there is little indication that air carriers, at least in the United States, [...]

Houston - Continental Airlines last week announced a new program designed to reward companies with air volumes of under $40,000 for their business. For every $1,000 spent on any ticket [...]

As we begin the third decade after deregulation, it appears that the hub and spoke system will grow stronger domestically and proliferate internationally because airlines and investors enjoy its profitability, [...]

SAS is planning a revolutionary net fare system for top corporate clients, a senior executive from the airline told Business Travel News last week. Under a proposal being studied internally, [...]

Now that US Airways has secured its hold on the shuttle, it's moving Rim Cuddihy into the cockpit with a flight plan aimed at expanding the franchise. US Airways last [...]

King of Prussia, Pa. - The long, strange trip has come to an end and finally it can be accurately said: BTCC is dead. The Business Travel Contractors Corp., whose [...]

When Global Business Travel Association members convene next month in San Diego, they will have before them one of the more interesting votes in memory. This isn't because of who [...]

IS ANYONE BUT Carlson Wagonlit Travel in the pole position on mobile travel management technology? That may depend on whether you consider Concur a 'travel management' provider. These two parties [...]

CONTINUING A THEME from their last earnings report, Amadeus executives on Feb. 27 described generally higher volumes but warned about macroeconomic challenges facing global distribution systems, including weak growth in [...]

Tech pundits like to label as 'dead' things that merely are as good as dead, like American Airlines' Direct Connect initiative. Not to be confused with the generic industry terms [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Although far less important to travelers than things like on-time performance and schedule reliability, in-flight productivity services - particularly in-flight laptop power outlets - continue to garner attention [...]

JAY CAMPBELL As corporate travel managers are doing what they can to mitigate the impact of what many consider an oligopolistic airline industry, the U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing [...]

JAY CAMPBELL The Star Alliance in 1998 will move beyond negotiations with existing customers to target 200 U.S. corporations for new multinational contracts, executives revealed at a recent press briefing [...]

MAJORS ROLL OUT NEXT-GENERATION YIELD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS JAY CAMPBELL The airline industry is in the process of upgrading to the next generation of yield management systems, designed to increase revenues [...]

SAS Offers Corporate Buyers Net Fares JAY CAMPBELL AND AMON COHEN The commission-cutting revolution has finally hit Europe full force - and it looks to be even bloodier and more [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Known in recent years for its aggressive corporate discounting, TWA is now doing its darndest to offer a product that complements those sales efforts. The airline announced in [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Houston - The success of corporate deals are a mixed bag for Continental Airlines, which this month told travel managers on its corporate advisory board that although negotiated [...]

JAY CAMPBELL Last week's American Eagle order of 67 regional jets and Continental Express' announcement to exercise options for an additional 25 nearly doubles the regional jets in service today. [...]

After an extensive 13-month request-for-proposals process, banking giant Citi selected Carlson Wagonlit Travel to consolidate travel management in 79 countries where it did not already use the travel management company, [...]

Travel automation provider GDSX last month unveiled TripLink, a new offering 'designed to protect and strengthen the managed travel model we have today' by capturing data on purchases made outside [...]

There are more temptations than ever for travelers to be noncompliant, and some anecdotes of companies testing open corporate travel booking policies, but there is scant research proving that managed [...]

A travel manager's travel manager, Kathy Kaden doesn't get hung up on differences between travel and procurement. She's too busy running the travel operation at fast-growing Cognizant Technology Solutions, attempting [...]