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- Canadian companies for 2008 expect "mild growth" in business travel costs, primarily from larger volumes...
- American Airlines named 12-year company veteran Kurt Stache vice president and general sales manager...
- Lufthansa will buy 19 percent of JetBlue...
- Air China and Shanghai Airlines officially joined the Star Alliance...
- Continental Airlines now can tally for "contracted corporate customers the carbon emissions associated with their business travel...
- Several U.S. states petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt "global warming regulations for aircraft...
- Air France-KLM and AP Holding submitted non-binding proposals to acquire a majority stake in Alitalia...
- Hertz Global Holdings named Robert J. Stuart as senior vice president of global sales...
- The National Business Travel Association's 2009 hotel request for proposals template includes "information sharing related to hotels' green initiatives and dynamic pricing...
- AMR Corp. said it plans to sell regional carrier American Eagle...
- The Internal Revenue Service raised the standard mileage rates for use of a car to 50.5 cents...
- The Policy Enforcers
Managing costs ranks among the highest priorities for improvement, cited by 40 percent of 214 senior financial executives polled by CFO Research and Ariba in February. The... - On Benchmarking: Legal, Practical Complications Make Air Pricing Comparisons Wrong, Worthless
A travel buyer walks into a hardware store and asks for a quarter-inch drill bit. The clerk quickly fetches it, wraps it up and sells it, and the buyer walks out, a seemingly... - Integrating Outside Experts: Embedded Agency Personnel Help GlaxoSmithKline Manage Globally
Recognizing it does not have subject-matter expertise in travel management operations, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline decided to enlist support from the travel agency... - Finding a Flexible Fit: Levi Pieces Together Global Approach
With the reach of a global company but the travel resources of a mid-size one, leading jeans and sportswear manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. is relying on a procurement initiative... - BMS Automates: Integrates Ariba, SAP, CWT and Amex to Bill and Track Travel
Bristol-Myers Squibb is in the midst of globally rolling out a new electronic procure-to-pay process for non-employee travelers in an effort to increase efficiency and reduce... - Benchmarking Mastery: Scores of New Ways to Measure Travel Emerge
Is it envy, the drive for continuous improvement, or simply the need to frame data in context that has prompted the surge in corporate benchmarking? Perhaps it's a bit of all... - Communicating Policy: Chevron Expands Online Training
Recent research shows that as supplier prices continue their upward march, corporations are seeking greater compliance to ever-tighter travel policies in an effort to improve... - Research Reflects Importance of Policy: Surveys Portray Compliance as Both Great Challenge and Vital
A raft of research during the past two years points to travel policy compliance as a vital element of corporate travel programs, and one on which corporations increasingly are... - Value of a Card: Travel, Procurement Card Spending, Buyer Benefits Grow
Such corporate card perks as insurance, rewards or discounts may be nice, but corporations are increasingly focusing on the savings that card programs can generate. From travel...
