[ad_1] WestJet this summer will restart suspended regional routes, restoring its “complete network of pre-Covid-19 domestic airports,” according to the carrier. Service to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Fredericton, New Brunswick; Moncton, New Brunswick; Sydney, Nova Scotia; and Québec City, Québec will resume in late June, WestJet announced. The carrier suspended service to all five airports in November.…

[ad_1] Blacklane has raised €22 million (US$26 million) from existing shareholders, the company announced Wednesday. The global chauffeur service intends to use the new funds to support expansion into new city pairs in the U.S. and abroad, grow its new chauffeur-hailing service and invest in sustainability initiatives, such as offsetting its pre-2017 carbon emissions and…

[ad_1] Frankfurt, Germany-based serviced-apartment provider Acomodeo has integrated its corporate booking engine with Concur Travel, the company announced. This feature now allows users centralized access to Acomodeo’s portfolio of apartments. Currently, more than 761,000 professionally operated apartments in 162 countries can be booked via Acomodeo, and through individual agency services access is provided to a…

[ad_1] Travel consultancy Nina & Pinta has added hospitality industry veterans Michele Delgado and Shalini Iyer to its North American team. Delgado joins as a consultant and director of training and comes with more than 25 years of experience leading operations and client services teams, having most recently served as VP of branch operations for…

[ad_1] American Airlines has signed a five-year renewal agreement with Fareportal, the travel technology company behind online travel agencies CheapOair and One Travel. The agreement includes distribution of American’s new New Distribution Capability bundles, announced last month, according to Fareportal. American has been a partner to Fareportal since 2012, CEO and founder Sam Jain said. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Advito’s proprietary carbon-emissions tracking methodology has earned certification from the International Standards Organization, the corporate travel consultancy announced Tuesday. Dubbed GATE4, Advito’s methodology has been validated to meet the ISO 14064 and 14065 certification standards, both of which fall under the ISO’s 14000 series of environmental management standards. The name “GATE4” is short for…

[ad_1] Ethiopian Airlines is implementing a mobile health passport platform in partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The carrier is using the African Union Trusted Traveler Pass, a portal developed by the African CDC and the African Union Commission, which includes information about travel restrictions by country and a database of…

[ad_1] Pop-up hotel provider WhyHotel is preparing to fully open in the next few months plans in two new buildings, in Miami and Washington, D.C., the company announced Tuesday. Each location will offer more than 100 furnished units in newly built luxury properties.  The WhyHotel Midtown Miami will operate in the AMLI Midtown Miami building,…

[ad_1] Paying for travel in Europe has become more complicated following the introduction of mandatory cardholder verification known as Strong Customer Authentication. Use of a plastic card is now likely to require an additional procedure such as keying in a one-time passcode sent to the cardholder’s mobile phone.  SCA is straightforward for consumers but, when…

[ad_1] The American Hotel & Lodging Association supports the bipartisan legislation (H.R. 2104) introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives last week by representatives Bill Posey (R-Fla.) and Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) that would require the General Services Administration to set a floor for federal per diem rates for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 at those…