Lufthansa renamed its Green Fare "Impact Fare" after a German court ruling and new EU rules that ban offset-based "carbon neutral" claims from 27 September 2026. If your company says it offsets business travel, here's what to check this week.
From 1 April 2027 the cheapest Club World ticket earns 200 bonus tier points per flight instead of 500. A fully flexible one still earns 800. Bookings made by 24 November keep today's rates. Here's what to tell your travelers before then.
From 1 January, a long-haul departure from a Dutch airport carries €74.81 in flight tax, up from €30.25 today. Parliament votes on 12 November on cutting that to €59.43. The departure date counts, not the booking date. Here's what to change in your 2027 numbers now.
Germany's finance ministry published new e-invoicing guidance on 15 October. From 1 January, larger German hotels must send business guests a structured e-invoice, and a PDF won't do. Train and plane tickets are exempt. Here's what to fix before the first January trip.
The EU's new air passenger rights law takes effect today. Compensation stays at €250–600, but the time to claim shrinks to nine months. Your policy should say who claims, who keeps the money, and where refunds go.
The EU's Entry/Exit System just turned one. More than 1 in 3 refusals were people who couldn't justify why they came, and 1 in 5 would have overstayed. What to give your non-EU travellers before their next Europe trip.
Live, timed pitches to judges and corporate travel buyers at the Javits Center — here's how it went.
Portugal picked Lufthansa over Air France-KLM for TAP on Wednesday. The deal won't close until 2028, and the last one took 40 months to reach corporate programmes. What to put in your 2027 airline contracts now.
Five unions representing pilots and cabin crew have called a national strike at French airlines from 17 to 21 October, at the start of the school holidays. Airlines only have to warn passengers 24 hours ahead. Here's what to sort out this week.
Long Lake closed its all-cash takeover of Amex GBT on 29 September, promising "agentic" tools and AI-assisted travel counselors. Nearly three in four other bidders walked away. Here's what to write into your TMC contract before AI changes how your travellers are served.
New Emburse data on $9.1 billion of company expenses: transportation is 11% of spend but accounts for 42% of this year's increase, and it's coming from more trips, not pricier ones. Industry ticket data says the opposite. Here's how to find out which story is yours.
GBTA's new poll: European travel sentiment made the biggest turnaround of any region since April, and 65% of Europe-based buyers now expect to spend more. Your 2027 hotel rates are being negotiated right now, on a year of soft European demand. Here's how to lock them in before the market moves.
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ARC's new print: US agency air ticket sales hit a record $9.8 billion in August, up 19% — but passenger trips rose just 5% and the average ticket hit $624, up 17%. The growth is price, not activity. Budget season starts now; here's how to build a 2027 line that survives it.
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This week an expense platform became one of the first finance connectors inside Claude, and a TMC shipped an assistant that books a round trip in under five minutes by chat. 92% of travel companies see the agentic upside; 16% are very concerned about the fraud. Before you hand an agent your data an
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Q2 airline earnings said out loud what your finance team already suspects — your corporate contract is being repriced. Six weeks to RFP season.
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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.