📊 Up to 40% of your travel budget is meetings & events — the half most CFOs can't see. Can yours?

Spotnana just bought TROOP to capture it. A new Skift study: only 20% of companies have a meetings department, 53% of event teams sit in marketing, and smaller meetings get misfiled as "travel." Here's how to pull the invisible 40% into view before your 2027 budget — and your CSRD file — has to exp

✈️ American just ended U.S. international first class — and your 2027 business-class policy is negotiating against a market that no longer exists

American ends Flagship First sales in November. Delta's premium cabin outsold main cabin for the first time last quarter. Corporate premium bookings +9–15% YoY. 8% of managers loosened premium policies — 2× last year, highest since pre-pandemic.

🚉 A €49.99 sleeper opens Brussels→Milan tomorrow and cuts a flight's CO2 by ~90%. Would your 2027 policy book it?

European Sleeper's new Brussels–Cologne–Zürich–Milan night train launches 9 September — 3 nights a week, couchette from €49.99, arrival before the workday. Rail is roughly a twentieth of a flight's per-passenger CO2, and CSRD Scope 3 Category 6 is now an audited number, not a footnote. The gap betw

⏱️ EES doubled Frankfurt's passport queue to 120 minutes — and ETIAS was just pushed to 2027.

Wait times at Germany's biggest hubs are 2× what they were last July, per airport data reported by the Financial Times. Amsterdam and Munich are already at the same point. The pre-travel authorization that was supposed to layer on top of this just slipped — meaning EES is the border reality your pr

🧾 A TMC hid ~£50M of overcharges inside monthly invoices. Could you catch it in yours?

Corporate Travel Management relisted on the ASX this week after a scandal that grew into a ~A$246M remediation bill. The audit that *cleared* its Australian accounts explained exactly why they were clean — costs there hit individual cards, so there was nothing to bury. It's 2027 sourcing season: th

💳 $6B in card-issuer capital just moved into travel supply. Your booking tool is next.

Skift's Q2 brief + BTN's payment-innovation package spelled out the same shift — the payment layer is consuming managed travel. Whoever owns the card feed owns the program.

🛂 The US just made $20K visa bonds permanent — and issuances from those 50 countries already fell 83%.

For any global company with employees from Nigeria, Cambodia, Ethiopia or 47 other countries, a US business trip now needs a $10K–$20K refundable bond posted before the visa issues. Your 2027 mobility budget just changed.

🤖 40% of employees admit faking receipts with AI. The average one is $100.

In 14 months, AI-generated fakes went from 0% to 71% of detected expense fraud — deliberately priced to slip past your auto-approval. Your controls were written for paper.

✈️ Southwest just told investors managed corporate revenue is +30%. On flat capacity.

The Q2 airline earnings said out loud what your finance team already suspects — your corporate contract is being repriced. Six weeks to RFP season.

📄 France stops accepting paper travel invoices in 12 days. Read this.

The September 1 e-invoicing mandate lands on every European travel program. Here's what changes, what breaks, and what to fix before Q4 close.

💸 GBTA just made the gap official: spend +7.2%, trips +1.3%. Read that again.

Business travel just crossed $1.71T. Trips barely grew. Your 2027 budget is already wrong.

🚀 Bonus issue: 7 things Travel Code shipped in August. #1 rewrites your travel policy in one prompt.

Not Tuesday. Not editorial. Just what we shipped this month — and why one of these matters most.

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🚀 We just put your TMC, expense tool, and corporate card in one ledger.

Travel + expense + Net-60 cards + AI agents, one platform. Scale plan 100% off for 6 months if you sign by Aug 31.

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✈️ Premium just out-earned economy for the first time — is your air policy built for the wrong cabin?

Airlines are re-cabining around your travelers.

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📊 Record spend, still 14% below 2019 — which number runs your program?

Nominal record. Real spend still trails. Here's what to manage.

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🏨 81% say leakage grew or held — and your RFP won't fix it

The growing half of corporate travel skips the RFP.

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🛂 The $250 US entry fee could switch on any week. Is your team exposed?

Signed a year ago. No launch date. Non-refundable. Here's who actually pays.

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The travel-manager role just split in two. Which half are you in?

BTN Intelligence surveyed 261 of your peers. 38% moved up. 38% got stuck. Same tool.

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53% of business travelers go off-policy. The fix isn't compliance — it's content

New Trip.Biz data: your OBT is the bottleneck

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Hotels spent $100M to beat OTAs over 10 years. OTAs won. Your hotel program needs an update

What Hilton's "Stop Clicking Around" actually changed — and what to fix in your policy

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BCD just shipped agentic AI to TripSource. 4 questions to add to your next TMC RFP.

The TMC AI race went live last week. Don't go to RFP unarmed.

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Premium cabins now out-earn economy. Your travel policy needs to catch up.

Delta's Q4 was the warning shot — what to change before your next RFP

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🚗 Uber just became a travel booking platform. Should you care?

🚗 Uber just became a travel booking platform. Should you care? Egor Travel Code June 02, 2026 Boarding Call 🚀 Uber spent 12 years watching Expedia book travel. Now it's doing it itself — and it took six months. This week we break down what Uber's hotel launch really

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✈️ The Paradox Breaking Corporate Travel

Business travel is booming. The people running it are panicking. Both things are true.