Transportation

Following years of commercial rental rate declines, Avis Budget Group CEO Ronald Nelson on Thursday reported a 2 percent year-over-year rise "in our... KEEP READING

American Airlines has discontinued its group discount program, effective May 1, and has eliminated its group and meeting travel sales team as the... KEEP READING

Forty percent of the U.S. traveling public now passes through expedited airport security screening lanes, due in large part to the expansion of the... KEEP READING

Air Canada passengers now are eligible for the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck program at U.S. airports, according to TSA. The airline... KEEP READING

Virgin Atlantic renewed a full-content distribution deal with Travelport, which indicated that its users would continue to have global access to all of... KEEP READING

Eurostar for the first quarter of 2014 reported a 6 percent increase in business-class passengers as "growing economic confidence has translated into... KEEP READING

The Airline Pilots Association confirmed that JetBlue Airways pilots voted to unionize. Citing results tabulated by the National Mediation Board, ALPA... KEEP READING

New Jersey Transit on May 1 will shut down rail service to Newark Liberty International Airport through mid-July in order to repair the AirTrain that... KEEP READING

A Russian travel management company has warned corporate clients that a new Russian law allowing the country's carriers to sell nonrefundable tickets... KEEP READING

Even without the leverage of the largest travel buyers, small and midmarket companies have opportunities for savings and sourcing strategies across the... KEEP READING

Asked to highlight a primary goal for 2014, many respondents to BTN's Small & Medium Enterprise Report survey cited their desire to contain travel... KEEP READING

An administrative court in Italy has ordered Emirates to scrap the Milan Malpensa-New York Kennedy service that it launched in October 2013. The TAR... KEEP READING

Alaska Airlines in March was the most punctual major U.S. airline, with an on-time arrival rate of 88 percent, according to FlightStats. On average,... KEEP READING

Lufthansa and its Germanwings subsidiary canceled "approximately 3,800 flights" scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, citing a planned... KEEP READING

EasyJet announced a deal to double its operation at London Luton Airport, the location of its headquarters. Under a 10-year agreement, the carrier could... KEEP READING