Alitalia

Alitalia buyers confident of relaunch by December

MILAN - Investors bidding for Italian airline Alitalia are confident they can relaunch it by December 1 even though its pilots and flight attendants still reject the deal.

Business Travel

Buyers seek bag-fee fixes

Struggling to manage airline baggage fees, some travel buyers are beginning to change policies, leverage preferred status to shield travelers from the fees and find ways to estimate the expenditure fo

ITB Asia 2008 - October 22-24, 2008

Over 800 buyers registered for ITB Asia Singapore

(September 16, 2008) – Over 800 travel buyers have been qualified and confirmed as hosted buyers for the inaugural ITB Asia travel show, October 22-24 in Singapore.

Travel Manager Salary & Attitude Survey

Travel buyers rise in visibility, value for senior management

Tough economic conditions and travel industry changes have put business travel managers in a brighter spotlight in the past year, as senior managers have grown increasingly aware of and interested in

2008 Business Travel Survey

Buyers' prospects rise after hotels' strong '07

Travel buyers are beginning to see better negotiating opportunities as the seemingly insurmountable momentum propelling the hotel industry for the past few years begins to show signs of slowing, even though 2007 proved another banner year for hoteliers in terms of rate and revenue growth and profit.

Alitalia losing altitude fast

You know you're a troubled airline when even Aeroflot refuses to buy you

Rome - You know you're a troubled airline when even Aeroflot refuses to buy you.

Italy's national air carrier, Alitalia, spent much of 2007 searching unsuccessfully for a buyer. The airline is heavily in debt, loses about $1.6 million a day, is plagued by strikes and is saddled with an aging, fuel-guzzling fleet.