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PART I - CRS Customer Hearing - Welcome!

[8 min.] Business Travel Coalition Chairman Kevin Mitchell outlines the genesis, purpose and objectives of the CRS Customer Leadership Hearing conducted on 20 September in Brussels, Belgium and provides a high-level overview of the deepening concerns over how DG TREN is conducting its review of the CRS Code of Conduct. See related stories from the Wall Street Journal here and Business Travel Europe here.

PART II - CRS Customer Hearing - Keynote Address

[20 min.] Michel de Blust, Secrétaire Général, ECTAA, provides an overview of the EU CRS reform process and frames the problem with the Commission’s recent redefinition of what constitutes a Parent Carrier under the CRS Code of Conduct. The PowerPoint presentation can be accessed here.

PART III - CRS Customer Hearing - Witness Testimony

[2 hrs.] This is the main event were Witnesses provide opening Statements and Questioners persue various lines of inquiry. Jonathan French, IAPA, presides a Hearing Chairman. The Witnesses are Philippe Eydaleine, Air France Permanent Representative in Brussels and David Schwarte, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Sabre Holdings. In addition to Mr. French, the Questioners are Paul Tilstone, ITM, Christine R. Dunton-Tinnus, ACTE, Lorraine Mallinder, European Voice, Dirk Rogl, FVW and Stanley Slaughter, Business Travel Europe.

PART II - Canadian Travel Distribution (WestJet presentation)

[16 min] BTC conducted a Webcast on September 11 to update the industry on the problems travel management companies and corporate travel managers are experiencing in Canada with airfare fragmentation and the associated expensive workarounds. Low-fare pioneer WestJet made a presentation and limited-time offer to corporate travel managers. The associated PowerPoint presentation can be viewed here.

PART I - Canadian Travel Distribution (BTC presentation)

[18 min] BTC conducted a Webcast on September 11 to update the industry on the problems travel management companies and corporate travel managers are experiencing in Canada with airfare fragmentation and the associated expensive workarounds. Low-fare pioneer WestJet made a presentation and limited-time offer to corporate travel managers. The associated PowerPoint presentation can be viewed here.