AIRPLUS AND PEW RESEARCH CENTRE: SURVEY OF US CORPORATE TRAVEL BUYERS
WHAT FUNCTIONS ARE YOUR TRAVELLERS USING ON THEIR SMARTPHONES?
Receive travel alerts (eg flight delays) Check destination information Use as boarding pass
Use to change travel arrangements Provide GPS data for tracking systems Capture data for expense claims
Contact travellers/travel manager via social media Use to pay small travel expenses Other
83.5% 81%
67.1% 45.6% 38%
35.4% 27.8% 6.3% 5.1%
WHAT ARE TRAVEL MANAGERS' RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING MOBILES AND APPS?
Contribute to smartphone/app strategies Source/negotiate/purchase mobile travel tools Research/recommend travel tool purchases Manage use of approved tools
Analyse traveller use of mobile apps Damage control
No responsibility for smartphones/apps Other
Source: Airplus International
26.7% 20% 32% 24%
26.7% 5.3% 52% 5.3%
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£10.2 billion The amount High Speed 1 (HS1) will eventually have cost the taxpayer over the next 60 years. Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, claimed the root of the problem was the “inaccurate and wildly optimistic forecasts for passenger numbers” when the line was being planned and when the Department for Transport restructured its deal with the contractor.
£4.8 billion The amount paid out of the public purse – so far – to service and repay debts incurred in building the HS1 rail link.
66% and 33% The amounts by which passenger- demand forecasts – by contractor London and Continental Railways and the Department for Transport respectively – were out.
1996 The year in which London and Continental was awarded the contract to build HS1, and…
1997 …the year in which it was realised that Eurostar UK’s revenues were nowhere near enough to pay for the scheme.