[ad_1] TripActions has acquired Scandinavian corporate travel management company Resia AB, further boosting its fast-growing footprint in Europe. Financial details were undisclosed.  The acquisition of the Gothenburg, Sweden-based Resia “significantly increased our marketshare in Scandinavia” and gives TripActions “Resia’s strong management team and deep market expertise” to help spur customer growth in the Nordic region,…

[ad_1] Kansas City, Mo.-based event management firm Bishop-McCann effective March 1 will acquire Overland Park, Kan.-based event management firm Onyx, the companies announced.  Financial terms were undisclosed.  The acquisition, Bishop-McMann’s second in just over two years, is a move to broaden its reach into incentive travel, according to the company. Onyx’s client list includes companies in the pharmaceutical, casual…

[ad_1] Partnership Travel Consulting has hired industry veteran Rick George as SVP of global technology solutions, the Cape Coral, Fla.-based corporate travel consultancy announced Monday. George has 15 years of sales leadership experience, most recently with travel data and virtual payments specialist Grasp Technologies. He also has served with TRX. PTC founder and CEO Andrew…

[ad_1] The waning of the U.S. spread of the omicron variant of Covid-19 appears to have spurred greater willingness to travel for business, according to a new survey of travel buyers, released Monday.  The share of member travel managers and procurement professionals surveyed Feb. 7-14 by the Global Business Travel Association who indicated their travelers…

[ad_1] Delta Air Lines and American Airlines were the two North American carriers with the best on-time performance for January 2022—a month beleaguered by flight delays and cancellations—according to Cirium’s monthly report. Just two-tenths of a percentage point separated the two, with Delta’s on-time performance at 85.3 percent and American’s at 85.1 percent. Globally, the carriers…

[ad_1] GlobalStar Travel Management has added World Travel System, a Japanese travel management company serving both corporate and leisure clients, as a partner in its global network, the company announced. WTS, which claims to be the largest international flight ticket wholesaler in Japan, aims to “drive new business, deploy technology, improve technology and really benefit…

[ad_1] The newly revamped loyalty program American Airlines announced in October 2021 is set to begin Tuesday, the carrier announced.  The key difference in the new iteration of the AAdvantage program is that elite-tier qualifications now will be tracked by one metric: loyalty points. One qualifying mile earned equals one loyalty point, according to the carrier. Members…

[ad_1] The U.S. extended-stay lodging tier continued its strong performance in 2021, according to a report released Thursday by The Highland Group. Compiled with the assistance of STR, the report analyzed 100 metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. With few exceptions, however, the strongest recoveries were in smaller markets, not often associated with traditional business…

[ad_1] Total air bookings by travel agencies on the Amadeus platform in 2021 were down 64.4 percent compared with 2019, though that was 91.9 percent higher than 2020, and bookings showed steady improvement each quarter last year, the company reported. In the fourth quarter, total agency bookings were just over half of fourth quarter 2019…

[ad_1] International Consolidated Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Level and Vueling, forecasts that it will return to profitability from the second quarter on for this year, despite the Covid-19 omicron variant having a negative short-term effect on the second half of the fourth quarter of 2021 and on the…