| For
purchasing, the next strategic sourcing opportunity in travel is meetings
management
Mar. 13, 2008 - At Genzyme Corp., Ray Mazzoleni counts corporate travel
as one of his purchasing responsibilities. Under that umbrella falls
meeting planning. For this spend category, Mazzoleni's role as corporate
purchasing manager for services is to review agreements with hotel
properties that the Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech firm contracts
with for meetings and to select suppliers that provide meeting services
for larger events the company holds.
Travel
execs suggest ways to cut costs
Mar. 5, 2008 - Travel managers facing rising costs and tightening
budgets learned of ways to control spending at a meeting of the Association
of Corporate Travel Executives in Boston yesterday. ACTE holds these
regional meetings called Executive Forums annually.
Southwest
Grounds 44 737s for Checks; Shares Fall
Mar. 13, 2008 - Southwest Airlines Co., facing a federal fine for
possible maintenance violations, grounded 44 Boeing Co. 737s until
it could verify that they underwent required inspections. The shares
fell the most since 2002.
IATA
attacks higher landing charges at British airports
Mar. 12, 2008 - The International Air Transport Association on Wednesday
attacked the decision by Britain's independent aviation regulator
to allow airport operator BAA to significantly hike landing charges.
No
Heathrow runway? Stop flying
Mar. 4, 2008 - The objectors to the Heathrow expansion are hypocrites
if they plan to use planes as normal.
US
Airways reaches tentative pact with machinists union
Mar. 13, 2008 - US Airways Group Inc. and the International Association
of Machinists and Aerospace Workers have reached a tentative agreement
that would move all US Airways' maintenance-related employees to one
labor contract.
Airlines
tackle wheelchair need
Mar. 12, 2008 - Ellen Brehm, a retired nurse who walks with cane,
was stranded last September after flying home from California following
the annual trip she's been taking with college friends since 1947.
SLC airport's
test of faster security lines declared success
Mar. 11, 2008 - A trial program to more quickly move passengers through
security at Salt Lake City International Airport has worked so well
it will be expanded to six more airports by the end of April, then
possibly to the rest of the country. |
You
may have spoken to Jenny Pastorek in Travel-On’s accounting department
to get a copy of an invoice or some information about a bill. Jenny
got to have a little fun last week when she was sent by Travel-On with
a group of young adults from the Jewish Day School to chaperone them
through the Amsterdam Airport and make sure that they made their connecting
flight to Warsaw, Poland. After the kids were safely aboard, Jenny
had a few days to explore beautiful Amsterdam. Jenny enjoyed sightseeing
and sampling the myriad of Dutch foods.
