Upcoming Events

MAR 15

2010 NBTA Strategic Travel Symposium (NYC) (2 days)

MAR 21

2010 CASMA w/The Beat Live Tour (Montreal) (4 days)

MAR 22

2010 NBTA Mexico (Mexico City) (3 days)

MAR 30

2010 NBTA Europe Virtual Forum w/Jay (1 day)

APR 13

2010 NBTA Canada (Toronto) (2 days)

MAY 12

2010 ITM Annual Conference (London) w/Jay (2 days)

MAY 16

2010 ACTE Global (Chicago) (3 days)

JUN 06

2010 NYU Hospitality Conference (NYC) (3 days)

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	TheTransnational.travel
5Q With ATPI's Graham Ramsey BT Streamlines Hotel Negotiations With Bidders' Conference CWT Rolling Out New Agent Desktop, Explores Outsourcing With Amadeus Feds, USTA Plan Travel Promotion Act Implementation 5Q With CWT's Doug Anderson

	Management.travel
Total U.S. travel agency air sales processed through ARC in February rose 16.8 percent year over year, the highest such increase since January 2007... KesselRun Corporate Travel Solutions named former BCD Travel executive Dee Runyan as senior partner... The U.S. Travel Association created a "board member council" to "defend and promote" meetings, incentives and trade shows, co-chaired by Maritz Travel CEO Christine Duffy... Amadeus delayed the target date for general release of its Amadeus One agent desktop from the second half of this year to 2011... Continental Adjusts Thinking With New Exit Row Fees

	Procurement.travel
Republic Airways Holdings' James Reichart will oversee agency and corporate sales, and distribution across the Midwest and Frontier brands.... United Airlines' corporate customer revenue in February increased 13 percent year over, according to a presentation by CFO Kathryn Mikells.... Global distribution system hotel bookings in January 2010 increased 5 percent while average daily rate declined 1.2 percent to�$155.19�versus January 2009... Hyatt Hotels Corp. reported a net loss in fourth quarter 2009 of $12 million compared with a net loss of $142 million the year before... Hertz Global Holdings reported adjusted fourth-quarter net income of $23 million compared with an adjusted net loss of $73 million the year before...

Posted Apr 15, 2009

Secure Flight On Hold

We have talked about the new TSA Secure Flight program for several months now. The program was to begin in May and will require you to provide us with your full name as it appears on your government ID you use to board airplanes. In addition, you will also need to provide us with your date of birth and gender.

We now understand that this program will begin August 15, 2009.

We have undertaken a large update and enhancement of our internal profile systems to accommodate the storage of this very valuable and confidential information. We will be informing you on how we will comply with this TSA program as we move closer to August 15, 2009.

Robert Polk is CEO of Polk Majestic Travel Group in Denver. These insights are excerpted from Robert's weekly newsletter, From the Desk of Robert A. Polk.