U.S., March 20 -- Fifteen business travel management companies, who belong to the Focus Travel Partnership consortium, are pooling resources to provide an emergency repatriation service for any travelers urgently wanting to return home to the UK, called 'Helping You Get Home.'

Focus Travel Partnership CEO Abby Penston said: "The travel landscape is incredibly complex at the moment. With airlines canceling routes and grounding aircraft due to the rapidly changing government advisories, our partners are telling us that they are experiencing a surge in demand from consumers, who are finding it difficult to make their own travel arrangements and are needing to return home. Many of these requests are not easy to fulfill, but our partners, who...