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Avanti West Coast partners with GoodMaps for accessible wayfinding – Business Traveller

16Dec

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Avanti West Coast partners with GoodMaps for accessible wayfinding – Business Traveller

Avanti West Coast has introduced new wayfinding technology to help visually impaired customers navigate stations independently. The rail operator has partnered with GoodMaps to offer the smartphone app at Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent, and Rugby stations on the West Coast Main Line. Customers can download the free GoodMaps Explore app for step-by-step guidance to specific locations within the stations including the ticket office, toilets, taxi rank, platform and refreshments. The technology works through image recognition technology, which identifies the user’s position when they hold up their device, enabling it to provide accurate directions. There are also features catering for a range of disabilities, including support for screen readers and the option to select step-free routes. Avanti said...

25hours Hotels partners with Soeder to stock sustainable toiletries – Business Traveller

11Nov

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25hours Hotels partners with Soeder to stock sustainable toiletries – Business Traveller

The 25hours Hotels brand has partnered with Zurich-based firm Soeder to stock its eco-friendly toiletries in its 15 hotels worldwide. Soeder produces organic skin products, which are 100 per cent natural in origin, containing ingredients such as Swiss honey, wheat proteins and cold-pressed organic oils. All components are sourced, developed and produced on-site in Soeder’s factory in Zurich, with the energy generated during the soap-making process harnessed to power the rest of the production line. Once manufactured, the products are packaged in refillable glass bottles. The products will be stocked in the hotels’ guest rooms, bathrooms and spa facilities, and will also be available to purchase in the 25hours shops. Soeder co-founder Hanna Olzon-åkerström commented: “The five-star hotels...

Neutral Fuels partners with Fairmont Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road on biofuel initiative – Business Traveller

10Nov

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Neutral Fuels partners with Fairmont Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road on biofuel initiative – Business Traveller

Dubai-headquartered Neutral Fuels, a company that collects waste cooking oil and transforms it into biofuel, has recently partnered with Fairmont Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road on the hotel’s latest sustainability initiative. Accordingly, Neutral Fuels will collect used cooking oil from the hotel and locally refine it into clean, renewable energy. The hotel will therefore not only minimise waste, but also further its green credentials. Neutral Fuels, which has operations in countries including Bahrain, Singapore and South Africa, besides the UAE, says that it is the largest producer of biofuel in the Gulf region. It added that from its inception in 2011 until Q2 2023, Neutral Fuels has directly been involved in a reduction of more than 54 million kgCO₂e for customers, including restaurant chain...

Lufthansa partners with Airbus and Munich airport for Power-To-Liquid fuel research – Business Traveller

23Oct

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Lufthansa partners with Airbus and Munich airport for Power-To-Liquid fuel research – Business Traveller

Lufthansa has signed a Letter of Intent with organisations including Airbus and Munich airport for “a broad-based research collaboration on Power-to-Liquid (PtL) aviation fuels”. The agreement – which also involves MTU Aero Engines and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) – is intended to accelerate the technology selection, market introduction and industrial scaling of PtL aviation fuels in Germany. PtL is considered by some to be the next generation of Sustainable Aviation Fuels, using regeneratively generated electricity, water and CO2 from the atmosphere to create a syngas from which sustainable aviation fuel can be produced. Lufthansa said that the collaboration would also include the testing of pure PtL (ie: without the addition of fossil kerosene) in order to gain knowledge for the a...

Loganair partners with Met Office and FLYHT to improve weather forecasts – Business Traveller

3Sep

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Loganair partners with Met Office and FLYHT to improve weather forecasts – Business Traveller

Loganair has joined forces with the Met Office and aviation hardware specialists FLYHT Aerospace to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and reduce flight emissions. The project will see all 13 of Loganair’s Embraer 145’s equipped with FLHYT-WVSS-II atmospheric water vapour sensors which will measure weather data for the Met Office. The airline’s Embraer fleet operates three to four flights daily across the UK. The sensors will routinely monitor environmental conditions around the aircraft during the flight and allow the airline to collect meteorological information. It is hoped that the project will increase the industry’s understanding of non-CO2 effects of aviation, such as the emissions of nitrous oxides and sulphur dioxide, which are estimated to contribute to around 48 per cen...

SaffronStays partners with Marriott Bonvoy

29Jul

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SaffronStays partners with Marriott Bonvoy

SaffronStays announced that select rental properties will be available on Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy starting July 27, 2023. Launched in May 2019, Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy is a curated and growing collection of 100,000+ premium and luxury whole home rentals located in 700+ prime destinations around the world. Leveraging Marriott International’s decades of delivering exceptional hospitality experience, each home is professionally managed and meets the company’s design, cleanliness, safety and amenity standards. It is also the only home rental offering to participate in the award-winning travel program Marriott Bonvoy, enabling members to earn and redeem points for all stays. Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy will feature SaffronStays’ homes in approximately mor...

Singapore Airlines partners with AirPortr luggage collection service at Heathrow T2 – Business Traveller

27Jul

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Singapore Airlines partners with AirPortr luggage collection service at Heathrow T2 – Business Traveller

Singapore Airlines has partnered with luggage collection service AirPortr at Heathrow Terminal 2. Customers living within the M25 perimeter can now have their luggage collected from their doorstep and transferred to Heathrow T2, where it will be checked in. Passengers can then bypass the baggage drop at the airport and head straight for security. The service starts from £28 for one bag pickup from central London (or £33 for two) and the service area is set to cover more locations after the summer period. Customers can book a collection time slot up until 24 hours before departure via the AirPortr website. Once they have checked in online, the luggage will be collected from the customer’s address (which can be a home, hotel or office) and vetted drivers will check all boarding passes and ...

SWISS partners with AirPortr for free luggage collections – Business Traveller

17Jul

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SWISS partners with AirPortr for free luggage collections – Business Traveller

SWISS has announced a temporary promotion enabling customers to have their luggage transferred from their home or hotel to the airport free of charge. The carrier has an established partnership with luggage delivery service AirPortr, with customers able to book a collection and transferral of their bags to either Geneva or Zurich airport. And a LinkedIn post by AirPortr’s CEO Randel Darby confirmed that the service is being offered free of charge until the end of August. The promotion is limited to 500 bags per day, for collections “from addresses all over Switzerland directly onto departing flights, without any additional cost to the customer”, and is valid for all SWISS departures from Geneva or Zurich between now and 31 August. Customers should use the code FLYSWISSSUMMER23 when booki...