Top 5 noise-cancelling headphones
By Grace Nasri at FindTheBest One of the most irritating things about business travel – of air travel in general, really – is flying when your seatmate is a crying baby or a non-stop chatter and you’re...
View ArticleCrowd control: Is London travel-ready for Summer 2012?
London Assembly’s transport committee grilled London and Olympic travel executives on Tuesday about what Transport for London (TfL) calls “100 days of extraordinary operation,” a period which includes...
View ArticleA borderless future: Transforming the customer experience in the rail industry
By Anne Pruvot, infrastructure & transportation services, Accenture By 2019, the EU’s rail traffic will be deregulated. What issues does this raise for the operator and their customers? Imagine...
View ArticleHow much for that hotel room?
Released today, Hotels.com’s Hotel Price Index (HPI) shows increased corporate demand has sparked sizeable room-rate rises in certain hotspots. Though hotel rates in the first six months of 2011 rose...
View ArticleThe golden age of aviation?
It is 1963. Transatlantic flights are a commercial possibility for the affluent and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. Their pilots, mostly war trained, are rock stars. Passengers fly with...
View ArticleCathay Pacific launch in-flight audio books
At a travel industry dinner a couple of months ago, I was sitting next to the boss of a large book publisher. During the course of the meal, we agreed that airlines’ movie/music/games-centric...
View ArticleBusiness aviation to embrace Air Passenger Duty
By Adam Twidell, CEO, PrivateFly.com The opinions expressed are his own. The Chancellor shouldn’t drag his heels on the timings around APD for business jet flights in the UK In Chancellor George...
View ArticleGreat British pubs, but is UK Plc no place for the public house?
Pubcos, regulations and shiny globalisation might be enemies of the ‘local’ – but the perfect British pub is still out there British pubs and brewery group Greene King are doing well this year. Asked...
View ArticleTop 10 airport touchdowns
A tiny airstrip in the Outer Hebrides topped a list of the most stunning airport landings in a poll out today The survey* of 1,000 travel fans and pilots, conducted by the private jet hire booking...
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Travel shorts: Edifice Luxe
The latest in an occasional series of short stories written by business travellers, fictionalising their globe-trotting experiences Edifice Luxe by Genny Briar Genny Briar From: Scott...
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