2025 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $105.5M
2025 Global Air Volume: $160M
Primary U.S. Air Suppliers: American, Delta, United
Primary U.S. Hotel Suppliers: Hilton, IHG, Marriott
Primary U.S. Car Rental Suppliers: Avis, Enterprise
Primary Global Online Booking Tool: SAP Concur
Primary Global Payment Supplier: Citi
Primary Expense Supplier: SAP Concur
Global Travel Risk Management Supplier(s): Crisis24
Consolidated Global TMC: Amex GBT
For a second successive year, U.S-originating air volume at Becton, Dickinson and Co. rose sharply. Spend rocketed from $32.1 million in 2023 to $72.5 million in 2024 and then $105.5 million in 2025, taking it past pre-Covid levels. The trend is forecast to continue in 2026, soaring again to $135 million
The key focus for BD’s travel team in 2025 was transitioning to a hub service model across North America, Europe and Latin America, with a goal of driving simplification, standardization and cost reduction. The travel program uses artificial intelligence for reporting and analytics. Although it consolidates globally with American Express Global Business Travel, 12 percent of BD’s air bookings worldwide, and 3 percent in the U.S., are made directly with airlines.
BD is close to completing a long-term restructuring. In February 2026 the company spun off its Biosciences & Diagnostics business to combine with the business of Waters Corp. Along with two earlier non-core asset divestments and what it describes as 20 “strategic tuck-in acquisitions,” BD has emerged as a pure-play medical tech company with 60,000 employees. In its financial year ending Sept. 30, 2025, organic revenue grew 3 percent year over year to $21.8 billion. For the year ending Sept. 30, 2026, the company forecasts low single-digit percentage-point growth.
Despite its steep increase in air spend, BD’s fiscal year 2025 emissions from business travel plummeted to about 21,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from from 107,900 metric tons one year prior.