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May 21, 2012 - 12:10 PM ET

IJet named co-founder and president Bruce McIndoe to serve as CEO and appointed travel and medical assistance veteran John Rose as COO. McIndoe succeeded Stephen Hoffman, who left the travel risk management and intelligence firm to "pursue other professional interests," according to iJet. Rose is charged with overseeing day-to-day operations and business development. His career has included 15 years at travel insurance and assistance firm Travel Guard Worldwide and a stint as a travel and information program director for the U.S. Department of Defense. IJet said the new appointments "follow four years of double-digit revenue growth for the company."
 

May 21, 2012 - 11:20 AM ET

Guild of Travel Management Companies chief executive Anne Godfrey confirmed plans to leave the association to become chief executive at Chartered Institute of Marketing. Godfrey told BTN that GTMC's executive council next week will begin the process of recruiting her replacement.

May 16, 2012 - 03:30 PM ET

Travel Leaders Corporate hired American Express veteran Angie Licea to serve as senior vice president of business operations and technology development, replacing Stephen Thomas-Shulere, who last year left the company to join Balboa Travel. According to Travel Leaders, Licea's 25-year travel industry career has included management positions at Amex and Rosenbluth International and stints at Thomas Cook and US Airways. She reports to Travel Leaders Corporate president David Holyoke and in an expanded role is tasked with "driving process improvement and increasing the operational efficiency and overall effectiveness of the company."

May 10, 2012 - 03:30 PM ET

Total U.S. travel agency air transactions processed through ARC in April 2012 decreased by 0.4 percent year over year, the smallest of three consecutive monthly declines. Total April air sales, including fares, taxes and fees, after marginally retreating in February and March, increased by 5.8 percent over April 2011 levels. Domestic U.S. airfare sales increased 5.5 percent but transactions fell by 2.2 percent. The situation was reversed for international flights as transactions rose by 4 percent while fare sales dropped 0.9 percent. ARC also reported that total passenger segments for the first four months of 2012 increased 0.9 percent year over year.

May 09, 2012 - 01:40 PM ET

Concur announced a duty-of-care service to help companies locate and alert travelers and employees in a particular region in an emergency. The service links a corporate human resources database with travel bookings and itinerary data to enable companies to communicate to those affected via email, text or voice calls, Concur president and COO Raj Singh told attendees at its user group meeting.

May 09, 2012 - 12:05 PM ET

Egencia Mobile now is available as a mobile website and an Android app, in addition to its pre-existing iPhone app.

May 08, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

The Global Business Travel Association appointed two travel buyers and two supplier representatives to a new advisory board for Asia. Buyer members are HSBC corporate business travel manager Jenny Ng and UBS Asia/Pacifc regional travel head Debbie Winston. Supplier members are Carlson Wagonlit Travel global business travel consultant Paul Boyle and Roger Pfund, Radius Asia/Pacific general manager for corporate sales and client services. According to GBTA Asia regional director Welf Ebeling, "Our first tasks as a group will be to establish the roadmap for education in the region and to identify a chairman to head up the new GBTA Asia advisory board in the long term. The network will be looking for further board members in the following months to be fairly represented in this ethnically and politically diverse region."

May 08, 2012 - 10:55 AM ET

Atlas Travel International enlisted SignUp4 for meetings and events online planning and management.

May 04, 2012 - 12:45 PM ET

AirTran Airways in April for a sixth consecutive month was the most punctual major U.S. carrier, with nearly 94 percent of its flights arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time, according to FlightStats. Alaska Airlines and US Airways tied for second, delivering 90 percent of flights on time. North American airlines aggregately posted an 81 percent on-time average, with Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and American Airlines performing above average, and United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Air Canada below average, according to FlightStats.

May 03, 2012 - 03:50 PM ET

STR projected average daily rates will increase by 3.8 percent at U.S. hotels this summer, nearing peak rates of 2008, while occupancy climbs 1.8 percent to 69 percent. STR COO Brad Garner said in a statement that additional leisure travel would add demand to already-strong corporate business travel demand, although the firm projects "very little contribution to the overall demand numbers from government transient and group travel" as well as "modest at best" inbound travel levels from the eurozone.