The rumors had been thick about a coming restructuring of Air Berlin and now it’s official. Air Berlin has made a press release that significantly shrinks the airline and refocuses it. The airline will give up its tourist business, focus on its hubs in Berlin and Duesseldorf and wet lease a number of its planes […]
Marriott has finally received the approval from Chinese regulators for their proposed acquisition of Starwood, making the largest hotel company by rooms managed (Wyndham Worldwide is larger by the number of hotels), surpassing both Hilton and Intercontinental by a good margin. Marriott now has 30 brands with more than 5,700 hotels and 1.1 Million rooms
Asia is home to some of the best airports in the world, including Singapore’s Changi airport, regularly voted “best in the world”, and Seoul’s Incheon. With the rapid growth of air travel to and around airport, the pressure on existing infrastructure is ongoing and there are construction and expansion projects going on around the region.
Despite Manila’s rapid growth over the last few years and a population of over 12 Million people, you don’t find as many hotels as in other Asian cities and prices are higher than in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur for similar accommodation. And if you are looking for American chains to earn or redeem reward points,
Recently, United announced their new Polaris Business Class with pod-like, fully-flat business class seats in a 1-2-1 layout with lots of new amenities in the air and on the ground. Now, Delta is trying to top that with the launch of an industry first: Business Class Suites with doors previously only found in the First
When travel bloggers talk about their favorite hotel rewards program, you hear a lot about the Starwood Preferred Guest or Marriott Rewards programs, but when US News & World Report Travel tallied up their scores, Wyndham Rewards won the number 1 spot! After causing a stir last year when they through out complicated award tables and
As I have reported before, low-cost carriers are continuing to add long distance routes to their networks, bringing more competition to international air travel and (hopefully) bringing prices down for the average traveler! This week, you can find new routes by low-cost carriers Air Asia. There are also new routes announced by China Airlines (not
This week’s edition of Travel News is looking at hotel news across Asia: The US budget hotel chain Red Roof Inn is expanding to South East Asia and Japan, with the first hotel opening now. And it appears that hotel prices in Myanmar have stopped their relentless climb since the opening of the country. Find
This week’s Travel News has updates on new airline routes to Asia, still the fastest growing region for air travel. With new choices of carriers and more competition on existing routes, we can expect prices to stay competitive.
The airline market has been growing in the last few years in leaps and bounds. And despite worries about overcapacity, the big plane manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, are taking in new orders and mergers continue in the industry! Read on to find out the latest news from the industry!
This week’s Travel News brings you new airline routes around the world: Scoot is planning to start service to Europe in 2017. Eva Air is starting a daily service to Paris. And Turkish Airlines might start flying between Bali and Australia – lots of new options to fly, always a good thing for travelers!
This week’s Travel News brings you some travel and technology news. While most travelers just want to fly from point A to point B, some enthusiastic flyers enjoy to fly no different planes and its exciting to see new planes enter service. Recently, Swiss Airlines received the world’s first Bombardier C100 passenger jet and Chengdu