Business Travel News

This American Express GBT microsite makes you wonder how we'll be traveling for work in 2115.

This is another step on the road toward Wi-Fi access becoming a free and open utility, and a right. Until the laws catch up with the times it appears we can expect more battles like this for the foreseeable future.

Despite the competitive airline posturing, long haul flights out of LaGuardia could be good for most.

Be on the lookout for long-time business travel hubs to get even bigger and for the ever-growing hubs like India and Brazil to continuing proving they deserve larger slices of global business travel spending.

Lufthansa-type surcharges usually turn out to be a negotiating tactic in a bid to get a better deal from the all-powerful global distribution systems. Smart money says this battle will turn out in a similar way. Meanwhile, airlines around the world are watching this keenly to see who beats up on whom.

The rise of the sharing economy is a trend in business travel that won't get put easily back in the bottle, although it isn't for everyone. On the other hand, it is possible that Lufthansa's battle with the business travel community could get recorked and disposed with.

For first time Uber is now more popular among business travelers than taxis as a percent of all rides, a seminal moment if there ever was one for the business traveler transport economy.

Uber is the ultimate business travel app: Tell it to serve you right now, and it does.

Virtuoso is repositioning the role of travel agents from information providers to long-term travel consultants.

With big mergers come big responsibilities, and United's failures to make its Continental tie-up work on the back end is the horror story airline executives use to keep their children up at night.