The business traveller & hospitality

Google Flights is hoping to help budget conscious travellers unfazed by convenience and time to find low-cost flights with its new new feature that organises the cheapest flights for their destinations in a separate tab, per Simple Flying. According to the report, travellers who use search engines such as Google Flights, Expedia, and other aggregate engines usually […]

The East African nation of Rwanda has long been touted as one of the continent’s fastest-growing centres for business and commerce, having made impressive leaps forward over the past few decades to get to the place where it is today, writes Alexander Mitchell for Simple Flying. Under the authoritarian rule of Paul Kagame, many have […]

Most people would agree that they had never had a meal while flying that came close to the food served in a quality restaurant, begins this piece culled from Simple Flying. Apart from top airlines that go out of their way to provide fine dining for first and business class passengers, for the most part, […]

  Sade Williams/Business a.m. An enhanced collaboration between Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has been triggered by Olubunmi Kuku, managing director and chief executive of FAAN who believes this would strengthen and promote the sustainable growth of Nigeria’s aviation industry. Kuku, meeting with Kamil Alawadhi, IATA’s vice-president […]

Overselling flights is a global industry practice. On its face, overselling a flight might appear negligent if not fraudulent, and the travelling public is rightfully sceptical of the practice. In reality, the number of passengers displaced by oversales is minimal (as discussed later), according to this report in Simple Flying. Overselling flights allows airlines to keep prices […]

The British carrier opened its first lounge, the Clubhouse, in the early 1990s. Since then, Virgin Atlantic has opened and closed several Clubhouse lounges. Nevertheless, throughout its history, Virgin’s highly-rated lounges have set the standard for others to follow, writes Simple Flying Currently, Virgin Atlantic operates five Clubhouse lounges at major global airports across three continents. Clubhouse […]

Makes every seat bookable with points SkyTeam carrier Virgin Atlantic is completely overhauling its frequent flyer programme to provide even more opportunities for members to book seats using points and earn more points in premium cabins, per Simple Flying in this piece. A dynamic overhaul Beginning October 30th, members of the Virgin Atlantic Flying Club frequent flyer programme will […]

L-R: David Broz, senior vice president, aeronautical and airline affairs, Emirates; Zayyan Ibrahim, United Arab Emirates (UAE) consul general to Nigeria; Khalid Al Mannaei, chief executive officer, UAE VP office, political affairs; Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development; Adi Al Ghaith, senior vice president, commercial operations, Gulf, Middle East and Central Asia, Emirates; […]

1. Capella Bangkok, Bangkok 2. Pasalacqua, Lake Como, Italy 3. Rosewood Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4. Cheval Blanc, Paris 5. The Upper House, Hong Kong Phillip Isakpa Apart from Lake Como in Italy and Paris in France, the world’s top ten hotels in 2024 are located outside the usual suspect cities of Europe and North […]