Mobile Personal Assistant Now Available for iPhone Users!

We are excited to announce the beta-test of our new iPhone Mobile Personal Assistant. Any Travel-On client who has an iPhone and is utilizing our online profile and/or booking platform is invited to participate. Now you too can reap the benefits long enjoyed by our clients already using the BlackBerry Mobile Personal Assistant! Click to read more and get download instructions.

• Complete travel itinerary in mobile-friendly format
• Alternate flight search including policy indicators
• Maps and directions
• Weather
• Dining options based on your current location, favorite cuisine, and company policy
• Click-to-call technology to reach Travel-On, or car service (if permitted by company policy)
• And coming soon, the ability to book travel from your iPhone

More than 92% of business travelers utilize a mobile device as an integral part of their work/life management. Now iPhone users can have the function of TripIt, WorldMate, FlightStats, Weather.com, OpenTable, MapQuest, and more in one application.  Read more

Important information for customers returning to the United States

Effective immediately, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) is implementing temporary emergency measures at security checkpoints under the direction of Transport Canada.  These measures will affect all flights from Canada to the United States.

Currently U.S.A bound passengers are permitted zero carry-on bags.  Carry-on bag means items to which a passenger has access to during a flight, but does NOT include personal items such as medication or medical devices, small purses, cameras, coats, items for care of infants, laptop computers, crutches, canes, walkers, containers carrying life sustaining items, a special needs item, musical instruments, or diplomatic or consular bags.

For the latest information, please check the CATSA website before coming to the airport for your return flight. Read more

Mind-Reading Systems Could Change Air Security

Systems that aim to get inside an evildoer's head are among the proposals floated by security experts thinking beyond the X-ray machines and metal detectors used on millions of passengers and bags each year. Read more

New Rules on Flight Security Get Airline Groups' Support

Airline groups expressed support Monday for new U.S. rules that mandate tougher screening for passengers traveling to the U.S. from 14 designated countries and ease a requirement that all U.S.-bound passengers be subjected to enhanced screening measures. Read more

A look at the experts proposing ideas to change the future of US air security

The Associated Press spoke with a group of aviation security experts about how they would design change airline security in the United States. Read more

What to expect from full-body scanners

Full-body scanners — a virtual strip search, as some call it — are coming to Canada as early as next week, with 44 scanners slated to arrive in airports across the country within months. A new era of flying is upon us, one that requires air travellers to leave their modesty — along with sharp objects, liquids and gels — at the gate. Read more