Air Berlin's entry into the Oneworld alliance will confirm its status as a serious business airline, its UK and Ireland general manager Titus Johnson believes.
Air France and Lufthansa stand to gain multi-million Euro windfalls when Amadeus, the Madrid-based Global Distribution System floats on Spanish stock exchanges later this month.
The US-based Business Travel Coalition is warning of proposals by American Airlines to move to a system which means more of its selling costs are passed on to the user.
British Airways will use Madrid as an expansion point in the absence of spare runway capacity at Heathrow following its merger with oneworld partner Iberia.
"Sexy" technology like the iPhone will soon be an everyday part of the corporate travel process, a panel at the Business Travel Show and Meetings predicted.
Airlines are only beginning the process of "unbundling", with more radical changes to how travel is bought still to be revealed, the Business Travel Coalition predicts.
Flybe plans to introduce mobile phone check-in later this year and warned that the tactic of growing revenue through ancillary sales may attract the attention of legislators.
