Delta buys 75 Bombardier C series jets, options 50 more
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Canada's Bombardier has won a C$5.6 billion order for its C Series passenger planes from American airline Delta.
GBTA/VDR November meet opens for registrations
- MICE News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Registration is now open for the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Conference 2016 Frankfurt in partnership with VDR - the German Business Travel Association.
Hotbeds sold
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
European private equity firm Cinven and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (‘CPPIB’) have confirmed an agreement to acquire Hotbeds Group, the global provider of travel services based in Spain from Tui Group for a total enterprise value of EUR1.165 billion.
Staging Connections launches Briefcase app
- MICE News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Staging Connections has launched a mobile application 'Event Briefcase'. The app enables greater attendee engagement and is free when clients use Staging Connections for their AV and event services.
SilkAir adds A320s to two new destinations
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will launch A320 services to two new destinations, Vientiane and Luang Prabang in Laos 31 October 2016.
Grand Mercure becomes Sebel
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
AccorHotels will rebrand its Grand Mercure Apartments Twin Waters in Queensland 'The Sebel Twin Waters', effective 02 May 2016.
New vp GSM AP for CWT
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Was Mun Wong has been appointed vice president, Global Supplier Management Asia Pacific, for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) based in Singapore.
Female suicide bomber wounds 13 in Turkey
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
A suicide bomber has blown herself up in the Turkish city of Bursa, wounding 13 people in the latest attack to strike the country.
German airports, airlines crippled by 'warning' strike, France hit Thursday
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Hundreds of flights were cancelled at airports across Germany on Wednesday as public sector workers walked out in a 'warning strike' over pay.
Lufthansa alone cut 895 flights – 60 per cent of daily services.
Americans still carrying guns through airports
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Seventy-three guns, 68 loaded and 27 with a round in the chamber were confiscated by the USA's US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in a single week this month.
HNA acquires Carlson assets
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
A unit of China's HNA Group - HNA Tourism Group - is to buy Carlson Hotels for an undisclosed sum, (including Carlson's 51.3 per cent majority stake in Rezidor Hotel Group).
Best Western signs for four in Thailand
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Best Western Hotels & Resorts has signed a multi-hotel agreement with real estate developer A D Houses to manage four hotels under the ‘Best Western Plus’ brand in resort destinations across Thailand.
Qatar Air boosts IAG stake?
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 April 2016
Bloomberg says Qatar Airways has increased its stake in Madrid-based IAG to almost 12 per cent, up from an initial 9.99 per cent purchased last year.
