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Airline joint ventures, alliances becoming more commonplace | April 2012

While the airline industry remains a highly competitive market, more and more airlines around the world have been finding ways to work with one another via joint ventures (JVs) and alliances, for their mutual benefit and to ensure their long-term viability. Today, these three alliances account for more than 60 percent of total passenger traffic. It is due to this increased activity that the CWT Solutions Group provides this update and related recommendations to assist travel buyers when working with airlines in an alliance or JV capacity.

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Is your company resourced to provide complete duty of care to its traveling employees? | March 2012

The world today continues to get smaller. Companies have and continue to expand well beyond single-country operations and are offering their products and services to an ever-widening worldwide marketplace. With these new opportunities for business—and business travel—come new and increasing risks to traveling employees and their companies. With so many companies expanding in less-developed and higher risk countries, travelers may not be familiar with the cultural nuances & infrastructure limitations, let alone heightened security risks, tensions, local adverse weather hazards, or even natural disasters that can adversely affect a trip, putting the safety and security of travelers at risk.

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