While the recent negotiations between Northwest Airlines and Sabre Holdings Corp. proved interesting (BTN, Sept. 6), what I found most intriguing was the reaction from the travel agency community and...

United Airlines in a Thursday earnings announcement expressed disappointment with its industry-lagging third-quarter revenue performance. The carrier attributed the lag to incorrect revenue management...

Lufthansa Group reported a net loss of €216 million (US$303 million) for the six months ended 30 June , reversing the €381 million profit achieved in the month earlier period. The Passenger Airline...

Meetings management programs are under a lot of pressure to prove their value. They could be mature programs that have been delivering savings and compliance for years or newer programs led by marketing...

Buyers who negotiated 2009 rates in rosier times for hoteliers now have new opportunities for savings with targeted renegotiations, as some hotel companies have implemented mechanisms to adjust...

To manage a meetings program effectively at a small or midsize enterprise is to balance competing concerns. Organizations of this size generally want to control meetings costs while documenting a return...

The European Union's official data privacy watchdog delivered a stinging criticism of a proposed European Commission strategy for transmitting air passenger data bit.ly/cHV7ei to the United States and...

GSA adjusted upward by 10 percent to $77 the standard reimbursable per diem for hotel rates, effective Oct. 1 for fiscal year 2011 bit.ly/cVik0E . Among the 378 "nonstandard" locations,...

Federal, corporate and public scrutiny of meetings, events and incentives has now reached unprecedented levels. Fueled by new regulations and a bill that proposes to ban events for firms that accepted...