Business Travel News

Business travel is a natural extension of Booking.com's already giant leisure business. If it really takes hold, though, the company will have to treat it as much more of an entity in its own right than as merely a convenient add-on.

The Ryanair and Spirit-ification of flying is almost complete.

The British millennials value traditional travel agents more than American millennials, but still a large majority have moved away from it, which shows in the number of shuttered high street travel agent store fronts over the last decade or so.

Radical change though it may be, the legacy carriers could do worse than learn a few lessons from the type of loyalty Southwest has generated.

There are hints that while millennials have largely moved away from traditional travel agents, there are use cases that require them and sub-cultures that will continue to use them one way or the other.

It looks like it's a lose-lose for U.S. employers who are stingy with their vacation policies, and overworked employees eventually have the last laugh when they receive their vacation compensation payouts when they leave their companies.

Is ignorance bliss? When it comes to the reinvention of loyalty it can help make things go down easier.

Loyalty is no longer about outsmarting the system to earn points. It's about spending money, first and foremost.