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SAP's Ralph Colunga, a Business Travel Hall of Famer and a former BTN Travel Manager of the Year, is preparing for retirement after spending the past four decades in the business world, most of it in the travel industry. Acknowledging this impending change has resulted in a lot of reflection for him. 
American Airlines and JetBlue have taken the next steps to wind down their Northeast Alliance, the carriers announced Friday. The dismantling comes after JetBlue last week announced it would not appeal the May 19 ruling by the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts requiring the agreement to end.  
Corporate accommodation platform AltoVita has expanded its network to include 7 million units across 35,000 global locations via a new curated accommodation platform that includes both hotels and extended-stay lodging, including serviced apartments, aparthotels and vacation homes.  
A Netherlands court has reversed an April decision and will let the Dutch government reduce the number of flights allowed at Schiphol Airport in order to reduce noise, according to a Friday filing with the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.  
CWT in recent weeks announced a "strategic partnership" with travel technology supplier Spotnana to make its tech stack available to the travel management company's customers. CWT chief customer officer Nick Vournakis spoke with BTN's Michael B. Baker during the recent Business Travel Show in London about CWT's strategy in driving that partnership as well as where the travel recovery stands and CWT's progress in pushing a new pricing model. 
April U.S. flight operations for the 10 reporting carriers were up 3.4 percent year over year to nearly 567,900 but were down 3.6 percent from March 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Air Travel Consumer Report, released Thursday.   
Judges at the Business Travel Show's Innovation Faceoff selected traveler identity network Travlr ID as the winning technology, calling it a potential game-changer for "a long-standing issue and legacy pain" in the travel industry.