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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)

JUN 16

2010 Business Travel Market (2 days)

News Feeds

	TheBeat.travel blog

	TheBeat.travel news
FEATURE: Massivegood Participants Take Steps Ahead Of June Corp. Travel Launch TRX To Delist From Nasdaq GDSX Releases Mobile Pre-Trip Approval App, Deloitte To Test TMC Travizon Building Mobile Security App ASTA Asks BA To Delay Agency Net Fare Program

	TheTransnational.travel
5Q With ATPI's Graham Ramsey

	Management.travel
Continental Airlines starting in the fall will charge for food in economy class on domestic flights less than six hours.... TRX will leave the Nasdaq by the end of this month partly because of its inability to meet requirements for a minimum $1 share price and $2.5 million in equity... 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...

	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 Jul 15, 2009

2009 FAA Bill - NextGen

Yesterday this bill moved up the proposed date for NextGen being fully implemented from 2025 to 2018 at an estimated cost of $40,500,000,000 (it looks bigger if you show it in purely numbers) or about $133 per every single person in the US. This is just for funding in 2010 and 2011. That is about 12 times Garmin's annual revenues (I'm not advocating a BUY here... just having fun with the numbers, but I got in at $23.65) ...

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David LeCompte

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Posted Sept 26, 2008

McCain, Obama And Business Travel Issues

At this week's inaugural edition of The Beat Live in Cleveland, attendees got a healthy (or, at least, large) dose of politics as The Beat's Jay Campbell presented results of The Beat's Election '08 Reader Poll and consultant Tom Wilkinson took the audience through a rundown of the two presidential candidates' positions on issues related to business travel. Linked below, the presentations built upon The Beat's recent three-part series on McCain, Obama And The Issues.

"The News," presented by Jay Campbell (PDF)

"The Views," presented by Tom Wilkinson (PDF)