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24
OCT
2011

Economic Flux

Posted in Blog, The Wire by AirPlus Editor
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As the economy continues to loom uncertain, corporate travel managers are poised to take action to rein in costs if necessary.

Through the end of last year and the beginning of this year, industry experts were bullish on business travel, with business travel predictions for volume and pricing nearing or exceeding pre-recession levels.

 

 


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26
SEP
2011

Traveler Safety and Security

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Multiple recent environmental and human-created crises have spurred travel management policy changes.

As with most areas of travel policy, those that address issues of safety and are ever changing, as technology, employee demographics, a volatile economy and worldwide political, economic and environmental conditions continue to influence business travel.


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17
AUG
2011

August 2011: Ancillary Aggravation Eases

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Three years after the introduction of a broad swath of airline ancillary fees, corporate travel managers are still grappling with the best way to tackle such fees from a tracking and policy perspective, as well as the ongoing effects on supplier relationships.

According to the results of an AirPlus survey of corporate travel buyers, travel managers continue to have difficulty finding efficient and accurate ways to track ancillary fees. The process can be so overwhelming that nearly half (44 percent) are not tracking the airline ancillary fee data in any way. When it comes to expense reporting, 38 percent rely on travelers to include their ancillary fees manually in expense reports, while only 7 percent include fee menus in those tools and 15 percent have automated capabilities built into their expense reporting tools.


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