Business Travel Tips

Priority Club has just launched a Facebook-exclusive offer. Fans of Priority Club Rewards Facebook page who register starting May 14, 2012 earn 1,000 points or 200 miles every qualifying night.

This early registration ends June 1, when regular promotion registration for this same offer will begin.

The promotion allows to earn up to 20,000 points or 4,000 miles after 20 nights by September 3, 2012.

To participate in this promotion, registration is required and you have to be a Priority Club Rewards Facebook fan and a Priority Club Rewards member. Registration page is here.

According to the annual summer forecast by Airlines for America, a trade group representing major U.S. airlines, international flights will be full next summer.

Airlines for America estimated that 26.8 million people in the U.S will make international flights next summer, up from 26.3 million passengers of the same period last year. In the effort to adapt to current economic challenges, airlines are reducing the number of seats available to travelers, so that will result in international flights likely packed this summer.

The trade group, also estimated that the number of passengers who will fly on domestic routes inside the U.S. this summer — 179.4 million — will be nearly unchanged from last year.

U.S. airlines will carry a total of 206.2 million passengers this summer, with the seasonal peak expected in July, when flights will likely be more than 85% full.

Southwest Airlines will begin service between Boston Logan and Nashville International starting Aug. 12, 2012.

The carrier will offer one daily nonstop roundtrip flight on its new route.

Boston Logan – Nashville will be the Southwest’s sixth non-stop route from Boston Logan — the other destinatiuons Southwest serves from Boston include: Baltimore/Washington, Chicago Midway, Denver, Phoenix and St. Louis.

Full body scanners could soon be rolled out to European airports. Aviation experts are expecting the scanners to be approved by the European Commission for permanent use, based on the recent study from the EC’s Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR).

The study says that back scatter body scanners are safe based on tests showing as the radiation doses were very low compared with other radiation sources received during the flight.

The report concludes: “In view of the low doses from back scatter security scanners there is no scientific basis to separately consider potentially vulnerable groups [...]. Cumulative doses are very likely to remain below the constraints with back scatter scanners even for frequently scanned individuals”.

However, last November the European Commission stopped new trials of back scatter scanners over fears they could expose the passengers to doses of harmful radiation.

Delta Air Lines announced it will extend its non-stop service between Detroit and Paris from seasonal to year-round.

It had originally been scheduled as a seasonal service, beginning June 1st and ending in August.
The service will offer two daily round trips between Detroit and Paris Charles de Gaulle.

Delta says the flights will be operated using three-class Boeing 767-300ER jets — with a total of 210 seats, including 36 BusinessElite seats, 31 in Economy Comfort and 143 in Economy — from June through October.
The airline will use 298-seat Airbus A330-300 jets for fall and winter schedule.