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Hotels New Mission for Breakfast

Its not bad enough what a business traveler has to go through to get to their destinations with all the flight delays, waiting in airports, but they also have to endure some not so nutritious meals hotels are serving these days.

"The food that starts a business traveler’s day is particularly important. And the hotel industry is catching on, creating menus that emphasize health, renewal and, especially, a better grade of coffee. Hotel cooks are brewing coffee from organic sources and preparing healthier so-called functional foods. And though no hotel would be caught without bacon and eggs on its breakfast menu, increasingly the bacon is from pigs that were raised humanely and the eggs from cage-free chickens."

Read More: The New York Times

Airlines paying more attention to their business-class

Airlines these days are investing more money improving their Business Class where they receive most of their profits. Business travelers are regular customers of Business-class and travel anywhere from six to 12 times a year these fliers being 75 percent of the airlines customers.

"Ranked No. 1 is Singapore Airlines, which revamped its business class in the last year. In November 2006, the airline debuted a product that beats out any other airline's, according to Plaisted. For starters, the lie-flat seats are 30 inches wide—the roomiest business-class seats in the sky—and passengers have 1,004 choices of on-demand entertainment, a significant upgrade from the previous 405. Other luxuries include Givenchy toiletry kits; full-size pillows and blankets; cuisine designed by Alfred Portale, chef of Gotham Bar & Grill in New York City; and bathrooms that are 50 percent larger than average airline bathrooms."
World's best business-class carrier

Northwest apologizes to their passengers

Northwest Airlines CEO Doug Steenland apologized yesterday to their many passengers that were inconvenienced this summer by their flight cancellations — cancellations that he blamed mostly on increased pilot absenteeism.
Northwest promises to fix cancellation problems

Business trip can include family time

Business travelers took their family members with them on 14% of the 435 million business trips they went on last year, according to the most recent data of travel research company D.K. Shifflet & Associates, of McLean, Va which went up from 11% in 2000. Read more on USA Today.