Marriott To Upgrade Onsite Hotel Technology
08.07.2008 -- Marriott International this week announced an agreement with AT&T Inc. to provide converged networks for voice and data transmission for its properties. Following the prototype at Marriott's recently opened Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, the service merges multiple technology applications at properties—including guest wired and wireless Internet access, such communications services as video on demand and voice-over-Internet telephony, and staff communications tools—onto a single managed LAN service-provider model.
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British Airways Names New Americas Head
08.07.2008 -- British Airways today announced the appointment of Simon Talling-Smith as executive vice president of the Americas, replacing Robin Hayes, who left the company to become JetBlue Airways' executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
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Changes Persist At HRG Consulting As Flint Announces Departure
08.06.2008 -- Mega travel management company HRG today announced that Ian Flint, head of its global consulting unit, will leave the company this month "to pursue a new business venture." HRG consultant Mike Orchard is now overseeing the consulting division.
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Study Contends Lending Troubles Slowing U.S. Hotel Development
08.06.2008 -- While the total U.S. hotel construction pipeline has reached record levels, development is beginning to slow, according to a recently released report by hotel real estate research firm Lodging Econometrics.
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Missing Laptop Spurs TSA Suspension Of Clear Reg. Traveler Enrollments
08.05.2008 -- The Transportation Security Administration last night said it is suspending new enrollments in Verified Identity Pass' Clear Registered Traveler program after a company laptop containing records of 33,000 customers went missing from San Francisco International Airport on July 26.
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Delta To Offer Fleetwide U.S. Internet Access
08.05.2008 -- Delta Air Lines today said it is embarking on a fleetwide rollout of inflight Internet access across its mainline domestic network through a partnership with Aircell. The companies plan to outfit more than 330 aircraft for wireless broadband by summer 2009, representing the largest rollout of inflight Internet to date.
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Enterprise COO Adds President Title
08.04.2008 -- Enterprise Rent-A-Car today announced the appointment of Pamela Nicholson as the company's president. Nicholson also will continue her role as Enterprise's chief operating officer and as a member of the board of directors of Enterprise's parent company Crawford Group. Donald Ross, Nicholson's predecessor, will continue with the company as vice chairman.
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Frontier Secures Alternate Financing Deal
08.04.2008 -- Frontier Airlines today said it found a better debtor-in-possession offer than the $75 million deal announced late last month with private investment firm Perseus LLC. Frontier said it plans to move forward with the alternative deal with Republic Airways Holdings, Inc., Credit Suisse Securities, and AQR Capital, which are offering the carrier up to $75 million in DIP financing "with an immediate firm commitment and funding of $30 million."
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BTN Names Northrop Grumman's Chang Travel Manager Of The Year
07.30.2008 -- Business Travel News last night named Janice Chang, Northrop Grumman corporate director of travel, meetings & special events planning, its 2008 Travel Manager of the Year.
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United Ends CWT Preferred Relationship
07.30.2008 -- United Airlines has terminated its preferred relationship with Carlson Wagonlit Travel amid efforts to trim agency incentive expenses through restructuring all of its agency deals.
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Delta Doubles Second-Checked-Bag Fee
07.30.2008 -- Delta Air Lines plans to double its second baggage fee to $50 beginning Aug. 5, the carrier announced yesterday. The new fee is effective for travel purchased after July 31.
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Amex Buys 13 Percent Stake In Concur
07.29.2008 -- American Express today announced that Amex has taken a 13 percent equity stake in Redmond, Wash.-based booking and expense firm Concur Technologies through the purchase of 6.4 million shares of newly issued common stock worth $251 million in cash.
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Fuel Costs Demand Legislative Action, Sabre CEO Tells NBTA
07.29.2008 -- Sabre chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland urged National Business Travel Association International Convention & Exposition attendees to press lawmakers to address the current fuel crisis, and fast.
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CWT Drops MeetingsLogic Tool, Signs Global Deal With StarCite
07.28.2008 -- Carlson Wagonlit Travel today announced a three-year agreement designating meetings management technology company StarCite, as a global preferred technology partner for meetings and events globally. The agreement with StarCite coincides with the phaseout of CWT's MeetingsLogic meetings technology solution.
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Frontier Seeks Court OK For New Majority Investor, Ends Standbys
07.25.2008 -- Frontier Airlines today announced that private investment firm Perseus LLC has agreed to buy a majority stake in the company and will provide additional financing pending bankruptcy court approval. The carrier also hiked change fees and eliminated its current standby policy.
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TSA Loosens Registered Traveler Reins, Eliminates Security Fee
07.24.2008 -- The Transportation Security Administration today said it would abandon its 20-airport cap on the number of Registered Traveler national programs and shed its $28 fee for conducting enrollee threat assessments, saying the program will shift from "pilot" mode next week.
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Starwood Lowers Annual Revenue Forecast As Quarterly Profit Drops
07.24.2008 -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide today lowered its annual revenue expectations as it reported a 16.4 percent drop in its profit for the second quarter of 2008.
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Higher Airfares, More Restrictions Offset Slowing Corp. Travel, Carriers Claim
07.23.2008 -- The top brass at major domestic airlines during second-quarter earnings calls in the past week acknowledged a slight slowdown in business travel traffic, but many noted that growing yield, declining capacity and new fences built around business fares are lifting revenue to offset any traffic deterioration.
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American Express Reports Strong Corporate Travel Sales Growth
07.22.2008 -- American Express late yesterday reported a 17 percent year-over-year increase to $6.2 billion in global corporate travel sales for the second quarter, which ended June 30. Despite prevailing economic conditions, the company increased its global corporate travel sales after a slight quarterly decline in the first quarter of 2008.
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Menkes's PTC Joins With Corporate Solutions Group On Hotel Solutions
07.21.2008 -- Former corporate travel buyer and Eos Airlines executive Andrew Menkes' recently reborn travel management consulting firm Partnership Travel Consulting today announced an agreement with The Corporate Solutions Group to sell hotel analytics and commission collections services from provider Hotel Solutions directly to corporations.
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