Summer Travel Alert: Allow More Connection Time
There are a lot of mis-connects causing great inconvenience and long airport stays for travelers. Please discuss this situation with your travel agents and encourage them to allow you to book flights with a longer connecting time. This extra hour or two "insurance" built into your connection could save them many hours in the long run.

A Return Trip to Travel Agents
July 10, 2007 - Mark Naples, a Center City media consultant, was at his wit's end this spring trying to arrange a unique honeymoon in South Africa. As someone who travels 200,000 miles a year on business, Naples thought he knew how to efficiently book trips the modern way, on a computer.

Coming Soon: E-Z Pass For Airport Security
20 Major Airports Expected To Have Special Security Lines For Registered Travelers In 2008
July 12, 2007 - The registered traveler program, conceived after 9/11 as a way to speed frequent fliers through airports' long and unpredictable security lines, is finally gaining national momentum.

TSA Announces Pilot of Multi-View and High-Definition X-Ray Machines at Security Checkpoints
July 11, 2007 - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today unveiled plans to begin testing advance technology (AT) X-ray machines, including multi-view and high definition X-rays, at security checkpoints in the coming weeks. These new tools will provide greatly enhanced explosive detection capabilities for carry-on baggage.

Feds to Consider New Rules for Airlines That Bump Fliers
July 10, 2007 - Bumping a passenger from an overbooked flight could cost U.S. airlines more than $1,200 under new rules federal transportation officials are considering.

The Job Less Traveled: Workers Seek Relief From Business Trips
July 12, 2007 - Rich Gee was deep into negotiations with a prospective employer for an executive marketing job when he dropped a small bomb: Could the company, he asked, be "flexible on travel?" -- code for reducing business trips.

The Downgrading of Business Travel: Companies' attempts to combat rising price tags on trips leaves employees unhappy
July 9, 2007 - For many professionals, business travel used to come with certain perks -- a posh hotel, a lavish meal, mini bar raids and maybe a pay-per-view movie before bed. But, with hotel rates skyrocketing and companies clamping down on spending, business travel is becoming increasingly bare-bones, even a tinge humiliating.

Five Star Travel: Business And Pleasure
July 10, 2007 - We’ve all heard of the lucky employee whose latest sales conference was held in Cancun, Barbados or Puerto Rico. How can these meetings be work if the attendees come home with a tan?

Corporate Travel World 2007 Reporter's Notebook--PwC: Hotel Rate Hikes Have Peaked
July 11, 2007 - Hotel rate increases will be hefty after travel buyers' negotiations later this year, but not on the same scale as in 2006, PricewaterhouseCoopers' hospitality and leisure group principal Bjorn Hanson told buyers and suppliers gathered here for Business Travel News' 23rd annual Corporate Travel World conference. Travel buyers, meanwhile, said they are struggling to maintain the integrity of their corporate hotel programs.

Guaranteed Hotel Rate is God only if the Rate Itself is a Bargain
July 12, 2007 - Hotel chains and tour operators often promote foreign prices -- especially in Europe -- as "guaranteed dollar rates." The implication, of course, is that all guaranteed rates are somehow a good deal. That's not the case: What matters is how much the hotel costs, not whether the price is guaranteed.

Amtrak teams up with luxury company to offer new kind of service
July 10, 2007 - Mahogany interiors, five-course meals and personal butler service will be available on several Amtrak routes starting this fall, as the national passenger railroad embarks on a new partnership with GrandLuxe Rail Journeys.