David Jonas is the Executive Editor at Business Travel News. With a focus on aviation, airlines, and the broader travel industry, he explores themes such as hospitality tech, business travel, and financial technology. David's work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Company Dime, TIER ONE ELECTRICAL SERVICES, and Business Travel Executive Magazine.
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By: David Jonas
American Express Global Business Travel in November marked a grim milestone for corporate travel buyers, reporting that carrier-imposed surcharges this year exceeded $2,000 for business class roundtrips to London Heathrow originating at New York JFK. Although added to international ticket prices (labeled as YQ or…
By: David Jonas
Health and security specialist International SOS partnered with AirHelp to support client travelers in obtaining compensation when their flights are canceled or heavily delayed. The alliance comes as the U.S. Department of Transportation, in the waning days of the Biden Administration, floats new rules to…
In a letter to The Independent, Thomas Soules says he’s “very disappointed” that Kristie Wang, his victorious opponent in the D4 City Council race, stated that voters she engaged with while campaigning “expressed a lot of interest in seeing our city move forward with its plan (downtown),” including Eden Housing.
The consensus among execs at airlines, travel management companies, global distribution system firms and other tech intermediaries is that NDC should become mainstream this year (if it hasn’t already). Not all buyers are like-minded. Industry metrics reflect a stall in momentum. Many corporate customers remain…
Did you ever check in to a room only to find someone was already there? That this is a “common” problem was one of several sobering observations by lodging security experts who spoke with The Company Dime on Monday. In addition, they said, safety and security…
By: David Jonas
Preferred agreements should never be signed and forgotten. To continuously improve their relationships, savvy corporate travel buyers and sellers commit to regular dialogue, including business performance reviews. These face-to-face meetings, often conducted quarterly with airlines, hotel companies and travel management companies, are integral to supplier…
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic don’t want American Express Global Business Travel to buy CWT. If they succeed in blocking the proposed $570 million acquisition, where does that leave CWT? Things may not be as dire as they once seemed. According to the…
By: David Jonas
Six Tripism clients are using the engagement platform’s new leisure component to build deeper supplier relationships and deliver favorable offers for personal trips. According to Tripism CEO Adam Kerr, it’s the right time to create a leisure experience because of the new ways people work,…
By: David Jonas
American Airlines has new deals with many of the corporate accounts that were most disadvantaged by its previous strategy and a few dozen of the largest corporate travel management companies, executives said. They presented this as evidence for ongoing corporate share recovery.According to AA, its…
TravelPerk on Tuesday announced it acquired Switzerland-based Yokoy in an all-equity deal alongside a $200 million infusion valuing TravelPerk at $2.7 billion. What’s Yokoy? Founded in 2019 as Expense Robot, the company changed its name in 2020 and began European expansion. It offers an AI-powered,…
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