[ad_1] Extended-stay hotel company Extended Stay America has added benefits to its Extended Perks loyalty program, including discounts and member rates, the company announced Tuesday. Program members now receive an instant 10 percent discount when booking their next stay, a company spokesperson told BTN by email, as well as an exclusive member rate and free early…

[ad_1] RwandAir on June 27 plans to launch flights between Kigali, Rwanda, and Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, the carrier announced Monday. The route will operate three times weekly on each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Last week the carrier also announced a codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Travel managers in Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa project higher budgets and corporate travel volumes above pre-pandemic levels this year, according to Cvent’s recently published installment of its Travel Manager Report. The study, which complied results from 250 travel managers in Asia, 100 in Australia and 150 in the Middle East in…

[ad_1] Lufthansa Group in coordination with its subsidiary Lufthansa Process Management in late March signed on to use ATPCO’s Express Contracts tool, BTN has learned. The tool, developed by ATPCO in partnership with Volaro, streamlines the implementation of negotiated contracts between an airline and its corporate travel clients. The carriers in the group that will…

[ad_1] James Parkhouse, chief executive officer of travel management company Agiito, has left the business, it was revealed on Friday. Parkhouse had been CEO of Agiito—and Capita Travel & Events in its previous guise—for more than 15 years. In a post on LinkedIn he said it had been a “privilege to build one of the…

[ad_1] Andreas Slettvoll is CEO of Norway-based carbon data reporting and management platform Chooose. In Europe, business travelers comprise about 12 percent of total passengers but are responsible for 30 percent of emissions. And yet, there is a desire among corporate travelers to lessen their impact on the environment. According to a survey conducted by Wakefield Research and…

[ad_1] Marriott International has been fined $225,000 by Pennsylvania’s attorney general for failing to comply with a 2021 settlement to prominently disclose resort and amenities fees, the state attorney general’s office announced Wednesday. The November 2021 settlement required Marriott to make changes to its fee displays in the following nine months. The latest agreement between the hotel company…

[ad_1] Delta Air Lines reported first-quarter record revenue of $12.8 billion, a 36 percent increase from $9.3 billion a year prior, according to the carrier. It also was 14 percent higher than the first quarter of 2019 on 2 percent less capacity, Delta president Glen Hauenstein said during a Thursday earnings call.  Business travel improved…

[ad_1] Air Canada on Oct. 28 will launch service between Vancouver and Dubai, the carrier announced Thursday. The route will operate four times weekly using Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft with three cabins of service: signature class, premium economy and economy.  [ad_2]

[ad_1] The Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance—which includes corporations such as Bank of America, Boom Supersonic, Boston Consulting Group, JPMorgan Chase and Meta—plans to purchase sustainable aviation fuel certificates at scale, the organization announced last week.  The alliance members are purchasing SAF certificates linked to 850,000 gallons of high-integrity SAF, which is produced by World Energy…