Washington, D.C. - The airlines' use of booking data received what one participant called a "curious" amount of attention from the U.S. Department of Transportation during a hearing last month with...

Cutting Out The Middleman? by John CaldwellRenting plates or entering the travel distribution system offers some distinct benefits for clients, especially as direct relationships with suppliers

Egencia by year-end plans to roll out new customized reporting and pre-trip approval capabilities that will allow clients to approve trips via handheld mobile devices.

In the most recent move by major hotel companies to woo elite members of their frequency programs to book repeatedly, Hilton Hotels Corp. last month introduced advance online checkin for travelers who...

Though bedeviled by the generally slow growth of meetings consolidation initiatives and acceptance of online third-party solutions as a key part of such programs, Web service providers are heartened...

A new PKF Hospitality Research analysis forecasted that hotel occupancy rates for 52 major domestic markets would dip 0.6 percent year over year in 2007, spurred by a 2 percent increase in new room...

US Airways has no plans to follow domestic competitors American, Delta and United in rolling out a premium-economy section, president Scott Kirby said last week here during the carrier's media day.

After radically cutting seat capacity on direct routes to and from the United States and Hong Kong last year, carriers have begun to put capacity back into the market, which has shown a rebound in the...

Speaking The Lingo The following glossary was recently developed by the National Business Travel Association's airline committee as a set of basic terms for negotiating multinational airline