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Airlines
A range of differing responses to the Ethiopian Air disaster involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 is making it hard for travel advisors.
Allan Leibowitz, Skift | 6 years ago
Business Travel
CWT has grand designs on how it can improve the traveler experience. The future isn't here yet, but progress seems to be happening in the background.
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago
The future isn't here yet, but at least big travel management companies like CWT have come to realize the importance of improving the experience of actual travelers instead of focusing on travel managers alone.
Now we've got Amex GBT, BCD, and CWT: an alphabet soup worthy of a sector that relies on bromides and buzzwords over substance.
Just half of the companies polled for this survey manage their meetings with the help of a travel management company. This represents a big opportunity for companies to save money and travel management companies to help provide oversight and transparency.
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago
GetGoing found a crowded field in consumer travel, wisely privoted toward B2B, but now has to prove that its corporate-booking tool is truly different from those of more-established competitors.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago
Online Travel
The rise in independent booking is easy to understand when understanding the sophistication and user experience available on consumer apps in comparison to still clunky business travel tools.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago
There are big bucks at stake as CWTSato Travel and Concur battle it out over government travel contracts. CWT recently got bragging rights by landing the DOT contract, and the Department of Commerce is a possibility, as well.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago
Announcements
CWT characterizes its 2013 financial performance as "strong," but even excluding the impact of U.S. government sequestration the company's sales volume and transactions were flat.
