Baltic Tours

Buying Business Travel | February 05, 2020

BCD Travel has acquired the business travel and meetings and events activities of its long-time Milan-based Italian partner Ventura Spa. As a result of the purchase, Ventura Spa will operate as a newly-formed company called BCD Travel Italy, which will offer corporate travel, meetings and events and travel consolidation services. Founded in 1977, Ventura Spa became a BCD partner in 2006. With annual sales of around US$400 million and 380 staff, the new company will maintain its offices in Milan,...

Cruise

Ultra Cruise | January 10, 2022

GM announced this week that its next-generation hands-free driver assist system, Ultra Cruise, will be powered by a scalable compute architecture featuring system-on-chips developed by American semiconductor company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. GM will be the first company to use the Qualcomm Technologies' Snapdragon Ride™ Platform for advanced driver assistance technology, which features an industry leading 5-nanometer Snapdragon™ SA8540P SoC and SA9000P artificial intellig...

Airlines and Airports,Industry Outlook

CNX and New Frontier | November 08, 2022

CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) and New Frontier Aerospace, Inc. (NFA) announced the companies have entered into an agreement, facilitated by Anew Climate, LLC (Anew Climate), to utilize abated methane emissions to fuel net carbon neutral ground and flight tests of NFA's hypersonic vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. NFA is developing next generation aircraft that can deliver passengers and cargo anywhere on the planet ten times faster than today's jets, whi...

Commercial Travel, Airlines and Airports

TA Connections | February 20, 2023

TA Connections, a FLEETCOR company and a market leader in end-to-end solutions for airline operations, recently announced that it deliver its new re-ticketing service for distressed passengers to easyJet, a leading European low-cost airline. TA Connections' innovative ticketing technology enables easyJet to promptly rebook passengers facing travel disruptions on alternate airlines using an automated system that provides visibility into the available flight inventory. TA Conn...