Profiles In Travel Management: Aflac Travel, Mtgs. Strategy Ducks Easy Categorization - 2010-06-01
06/01/2010
Aflac's corporate travel program has a split personality. While the insurance company brought its meetings and travel programs under the same roof long before it became popular, it also has gone against current conventional wisdom by maintaining a rent-a-plate agency configuration and shunning the ...
Survey: Big U.K. Corps. Flying Less
03/16/2011
Many of the largest U.K.-based companies during the past two years have used senior manager mandates to cut the number of flights they take for business, and representatives from some agreed that doing so need not harm profits or competitive positioning, according to a new report.
The 25 Most Influential Executives Of The Business Travel Industry Of 2010
01/24/2011
The 25 Most Influential Executives of 2010 is Business Travel News ' 26th consecutive annual effort to identify the executives who most directly drove those changes, who forced the industry to take notice of and react to their decisions.
On The Horizon: PwC Sees U.S. Hotel Supply Squeeze Driving Up Rates
11/29/2010
U.S. hotel industry growth will soon shift from occupancy-driven to rate-driven, according to a forecast issued this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Hospitality & Leisure Practice that projects U.S. average daily rates to increase by 4.8 percent year over year in 2011.
Delta Sells Mesaba, Compass Regional Airlines
07/01/2010
Delta Air Lines today unloaded for more than $82 million two regional airline subsidiaries that it picked up during its merger with Northwest Airlines, though the carrier said it would continue to use both Mesaba and Compass Airlines as regional affiliates. The carrier said it would use the ...