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Silicon Valley and Tokyo Top List of Most Expensive Cities for Business Travel
Many seasoned business travelers anecdotally know that Tokyo is the most expensive city but now there’s hard evidence to provide it. Concur Technologies, a company that offers travel and expense management solutions, analyzed over half a billion individual purchases made by business travelers in 2011 totaling over $50 billion.
These expenses included hotels, meals, and entertainment and were submitted by 15 million road warriors employed by roughly 15,000 companies across the …
Starwood to Open Aloft in Cupertino
Starwood plans to open a second Aloft hotel in Silicon Valley next summer. Aloft is Starwood’s new brand and the Aloft Cupertino will be its second in the valley and its third in California.
The new hotel will feature 123 loft-like rooms with high-tech amenities. Starwood also plans to infuse the hotel with a social vibe, as it has done with other Aloft properties.
The Aloft Cupertino will be centrally located in …
2012 Buick LaCrosse eAssist Hybrid – Review
The Buick LaCrosse, new for 2010, is the automaker’s mid-sized luxury offering, and replaced the Buick Century and Regal as a 2005 model. It’s built on the General Motors Epsilon II platform that it shares with the Opel Insignia.
With its waterfall grille and signature portholes, it’s clearly a Buick, one that shows the influence of the 2007 Riviera concept coupe that Buick unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show. The front …
GlobeRunner: Dick Kreidel, Entrepreneur, Pilot, and Manufacturing Executive
It isn’t every frequent flyer who can say that he built his own plane. But Dick Kreidel can.
“In 1983 I built a LongEZ experimental aircraft that I keep in Southern California, and that I continue to fly,” says Kreidel, adding, “I also own an Aviat A1-C Husky that remains at my home in Montana for flying into remote backcountry areas in Montana and Idaho.”
It’s not surprising then, that Kreidel’s career …
American Airlines To Cut Chicago-New Delhi, DFW-Burbank Routes
American Airlines will discontinue service from Chicago to New Delhi, India, the airline’s longest route. The last flight from Chicago to New Delhi will be on February 28, 2012; the last flight from India to Chicago will be on March 1.
American has operated this route since 2005 with a three-class Boeing 777-200 aircraft.
American will exit the Burbank market on February 9, ending its Dallas-Fort Worth-Burbank route.
ANA to Launch 787 Dreamliner Routes to San Jose and Seattle
San Jose and Seattle will be the first destinations in the United States to see the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. ANA, the aircraft’s launch carrier, will begin service from Tokyo’s Narita airport to both locations some time in 2012.
ANA will be the only airline operating a San Jose-Tokyo route.
The first commercial Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight was in October of this year and the aircraft started to fly its first regular route, …
