Pick your seat mate using LinkedIn and Facebook

Corporate travellers flying KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will be able to view other passengers’ profiles on LinkedIn and Facebook before selecting their seat when checking in online.

Called ‘meet and seat’, travellers will be able to seat themselves next to a potential client for a soft in-flight pitch or set themselves up on a blind date with someone

Traveller spends $AU62,000 on duty free wine

Duty-free alcohol is one of the great perks for corporate travellers on international routes, but not everything on the shelf comes cheap.

Just before Christmas, a traveller at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport spent 50,000 euros or $62,000 Australian dollars on six bottles of premium wine.

The half-dozen included a bottle of Romanee Conti 1995, a Chateau Margaux

BCD Travel welcomes Jon Marshall as Head of Sales & Client Services

BCD Travel has announced the appointment of Jon Marshall to the position of Head of Sales and Client Services.

Jon, who is based in Melbourne, will be responsible for developing and maintaining the account acquisition and service strategies for the corporate travel company. He was previously State Manager Victoria for Etihad Airways and brings extensive experience in the travel and aviation fields,

Tips from BCD Travel

Engage travelers and yield better-than-policy results through social enterprise

Miriam Moscovici, senior director of Emerging Technologies for BCD Travel, says social enterprise can help your travel program leverage the wisdom of the crowd while engaging travelers.