CORPORATE TRAVEL NEWS

Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s biggest conference, begins next week in Barcelona, where more than 100,000 people are set to see the latest smartphones, artificial intelligence devices and autonomous drones exhibited by roughly 2,300 companies.The event is also the industry’s largest networking opportunity for executives, bankers, analysts and the like to talk shop ...

Qantas partner Malaysia Airlines will boost its Adelaide-Kuala Lumpur flights to five services per week from July as the airline continues its Australian growth.From July 5 2018, the airline’s fifth weekly flight will depart Kuala Lumpur at 10:20pm on Wednesdays – running as MH139 and arriving at 7am the following morning – with the Adelaide-KL leg returning on Thursdays as[…]

Passengers travelling in business class or first class with Delta Air Lines can now earn more Velocity points for every mile they fly on a range of fares, including when booking their flight as a Virgin Australia codeshare journey on a VA flight number.On those VA-coded tickets, purchasing any seat in first class with Delta now provides two Velocity points[…]

Fasten your seatbelts for a flight from Tokyo to Paris which never leaves the ground.That's exactly what 12 passengers did at Tokyo's novel First Airlines virutal reality centre, where they relaxed in first and business-class seats......  and were served four-course dinners.En route, donning VR headsets provided immersive 360-degree virtual reality tours of the City of Lig...

Singapore Airlines will preview its all-new regional business class seat on March 28, with selected members of the airline's elite PPS Club frequent flyer tier among the first to see them and sit in them.The Star Alliance member will follow the delivery of its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner into Singapore that morning with an invitation-only soiree at Changi Airport's private[…]