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What Delta Air Lines predicts for business travel after the Omicron variant
Blog Editor
January 18, 2022
For Delta Air Lines, the Covid situation isn’t as grim as it could be. Its outlook on Thursday issued along with its fourth quarter 2021 earnings report calls for a profit of roughly $400 million for the second half of this year, and its CEO Ed Bastian noted that would make Delta “the only major U.S. airline to achieve second-half profitability.”
On the move: The future of business travel
Blog Editor
January 11, 2022
As circumstances continue to evolve around the pandemic, so does the way we move, interact and do business. The travel industry, which impacts all the above, has encountered and embraced substantial change over the last several months. For business travelers, what was once commonplace — a ticket purchase, pass through security and stop by concessions — faced extended pause. For industry...
Online Travel Faces Lots of Unfinished Business in 2022
Blog Editor
January 11, 2022
Online travel has a ton of loose ends, questions to be answered, and fortunes to be won or blown, and these issues didn’t get resolved, of course, just because the Gregorian calendar spent its annual allotment of days on December 31.
Omicron is prompting new rules for international travel to the U.S.
Blog Editor
December 7, 2021
The rules of international travel are changing — again. The emergence of the omicron variant of Covid in southern Africa and its detection around the world has sparked a host of new travel requirements and, in some cases, outright bans — further complicating international trips that were just starting to pick up.
Onriva CEO Ready to Emerge from 'Stealth Mode'
Blog Editor
December 7, 2021
Business-travel-focused travel platform Onriva may not have the industry's highest profile, but it launched five years ago and reports inventory from more than two million travel suppliers and wholesalers. Chairman and CEO Vajid Jafri said he wanted to enter the industry with a splash, not a ripple.
US lifts international travel ban
Blog Editor
November 9, 2021
A rush of international travelers headed into the United States Monday as the COVID-19 travel ban ended and people from dozens of countries begin flooding in, more than 600 days since they were barred from entry.
The secret first-class seats offered by airlines
Blog Editor
November 4, 2021
International first-class suites -- the kind of double-bed-in-the-sky experiences that have been the stuff of travel dreams for decades -- have been on the way out for a while now. With the Covid-driven retirements of many older aircraft, and airlines skipping first class on newer planes in favor of better business class mini-suites, there are only a very few places left where this kind of...
CDC updates guidance, says unvaccinated foreign tourists under 18 will not need to quarantine
Blog Editor
November 2, 2021
Unvaccinated children visiting the United States will not need to quarantine upon arrival under the country's new travel rules, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
Business Travel’s Demise Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences
Blog Editor
October 28, 2021
In 2019, Jason Henrichs took 46 flights for business, traveling to cities where he stayed at hotels, dined at local restaurants, and sometimes even visited tourist attractions like the Liberty Bell. In 2020, he took just three flights.
American Expects Full Rebound of Business Travel by End of 2022
Blog Editor
October 26, 2021
American Airlines expects a full rebound of business travel revenue to 2019 levels on a monthly basis by the end of 2022, according to Robert Isom, president, speaking on a third quarter earnings call. He said that in his speaking regularly to top corporate customers, almost all have resumed domestic US business travel, to some extent. As companies return to the office and lift travel...
U.S. to lift Canada, Mexico land border restrictions in Nov for vaccinated visitors
Blog Editor
October 21, 2021
The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic curbs on non-essential travelers in place since March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.K. Pares Red List to Seven Countries in Bid to Encourage Air Travel
Blog Editor
October 18, 2021
The U.K. eased entry rules for 47 countries and territories that were subject to the tightest Covid-19 restrictions, in the latest step to shed travel curbs and revive tourism-dependent businesses.
Reimagining Travel Distribution by Lorraine Sileo
Blog Editor
October 14, 2021
It's 3Q 2021, and nearly every narrative has a "re" in front of it - which is practically unavoidable when describing the state of travel. Businesses refocus, travelers reassess, and hope is renewed. As some of us start to envision ourselves out of the pandemic, we reexamine the past and prepare for the next go-around. As a prefix, re- means "again", or "renew" so it seems fitting as we ponder...
Vaccination requirements are coming for air travelers
Blog Editor
September 30, 2021
It's a question of when — not if — vaccine requirements are coming for air travelers. Canada will start mandating vaccinations for travelers no later than October. Several cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean, have ordered that passengers over 12 get their shots. And now, the U.S. government is considering a vaccine requirement for airline passengers. In an interview last week, Anthony...
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