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Britain's two biggest long-haul carriers have lined up behind a rival blueprint for Heathrow's third runway, piling fresh pressure on the airport's incumbent owners to justify their £49 billion expansion scheme.
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British Airways owner IAG and Virgin Atlantic back Arora’s alternative Heathrow third runway plan

By Ana Ives · May 25, 2026
 Lufthansa Group has refreshed its climate protection portfolio with a sharper tilt towards technology-led carbon removal, including its first backing of direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS), a move that signals where Europe’s largest network carrier sees the next decade of corporate aviation decarbonisation heading.
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Lufthansa Group bets on direct air capture in revamped climate portfolio

By Ana Ives · May 25, 2026
 As ITB China throws open the doors of the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre tomorrow, the world’s meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) sector is staring down a familiar but sharpening adversary: cost.
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Rising costs push global MICE sector towards premium clients and local supply chains

By Ana Ives · May 25, 2026
 Support for almost every under‑represented group of business traveller has gone backwards in the past year, with LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and younger employees among those losing the most ground, according to fresh research unveiled today by Business Travel Show Europe.
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Corporate travel programmes leave minority travellers exposed as DEI policies stall, new data warns

By Ana Ives · May 25, 2026
 The chancellor's "Great British Summer Saving Scheme" hands hospitality, attractions and bleisure travellers a short, sharp boost, and gives company-car drivers their biggest mileage uplift in years.
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Reeves slashes summer attraction VAT and lifts business mileage rates in cost-of-living package

By Ana Ives · May 21, 2026
 British companies are pouring money back into the road, the rails and the skies at a pace matched by almost no other major economy.
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UK ranks second globally for sharpest rise in corporate travel spending

By Ana Ives · May 21, 2026
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Sixteen cities, one summer: the business traveller’s playbook for World Cup 2026

By Ana Ives · May 19, 2026
 Edinburgh has fired the starting gun on the most ambitious experiment in tourism-tax democracy yet seen in the United Kingdom, with councillors agreeing this week to hand £2 million of Visitor Levy income directly to residents to spend on their own neighbourhoods.
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Edinburgh hands residents the keys to a £2m Visitor Levy windfall

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 The European Commission has unveiled a sweeping package of proposals designed to make it easier, and considerably less stressful, for business travellers to book complex cross-border rail journeys involving multiple operators, while sharpening consumer protection when connections go wrong.
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Brussels moves to make cross-border rail travel a one-ticket affair for business travellers

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 Ministers have confirmed they will press ahead with controversial plans to allow the mayors of England's largest city-regions to charge a tax on overnight stays, in a move that has reignited fury across the business travel and hospitality industries.
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English Mayors to gain overnight stay tax powers as government commits to visitor levy

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 The Civil Aviation Authority has set out four potential operating models for a third runway at the UK's largest airport, including the alternative £25 billion scheme proposed by hotel and property billionaire Surinder Arora.
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CAA clears runway for Arora’s rival Heathrow expansion plan

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 Business travellers facing the annual scrum of the school holidays should see border queues move a little more briskly this summer, after the Home Office confirmed that children aged eight and nine will be permitted to use the UK's e-gates from 8 July.
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E-gate access widens to younger children at UK airports in time for summer peak

By Ana Ives · May 14, 2026