Pursued for nearly five weeks, TripActions on Wednesday declined to answer basic questions about its own survey. That’s not something you often see in this line of work. Republished by some trade publications, the findings included that millennials see travel as a job perk and don’t care about loyalty programs; it takes more than an…
Freebird hired as senior vice president of sales Mike Daly, a corporate travel veteran who left Deem after 13 years. Three-year-old, Cambridge, Mass.-based Freebird offers flight disruption protection through travel management companies. When flights are disrupted, Freebird looks for better ways to get customers to their destinations and pays for new tickets from revenues derived from…
Well-funded startup Lola last week announced its Lola Works small business platform featuring reporting, team collaboration and policy and spending guidelines with “wiggle room.” The features could have some appeal, but Lola’s bigger challenges remain unresolved. One, how will it find customers? Two, can it compete for said customers without offering the airline that carries the…
Sometimes the things we write about peter out. Sometimes more developments happen, but they don’t warrant an entirely new article. In other cases, something unexpected or counterintuitive is noteworthy in its continuance. Hence, the Updates post. Click to jump to info on the latest from a rare collegiate program focused on corporate travel, enhancements for Travel and…
[UPDATE, March 7, 2018: Lola introduced a small and medium-size business platform featuring reporting, team collaboration and policy guidelines with “wiggle room.”] [UPDATE, Jan. 30, 2018: American Express acquired Mezi.] [UPDATE, July 12, 2017: Mezi announced profile and dashboard functionality — and partnerships with Adelman Travel, Casto Travel and W Travel — as part of…
Did today’s blizzard in the Northeast wreck your travel plans? There are a number of developing services that can help corporate travelers avoid such problems. A first step may be knowing the likelihood that a flight could be disrupted before booking it. Flightsayer, a service from Resilient Ops, presents a score for each flight where 1…
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