Planet VPN Issues Business Travel Wi-Fi Security Guidance as Corporate Travel Budgets Rise in 2026

Bucharest, Romania, August 18th, 2026, FinanceWire

Global corporate travel budgets are projected to grow roughly 5% this year, and a string of recent incidents is pushing security teams to revisit how they protect employees connecting from the road.

Planet VPN is highlighting growing cybersecurity concerns as global corporate travel budgets are projected to rise roughly 5% in 2026, while hotel booking volumes are expected to increase 6.3%, according to a recent Morgan Stanley AlphaWise survey. As business travel rebounds, companies are placing renewed attention on the security risks employees face when connecting to public and unfamiliar networks outside the office.

Airports, hotel lobbies and conference venues remain among the most heavily used public Wi-Fi networks in the world, and cybersecurity researchers have repeatedly flagged them as common points for traffic interception and so-called “evil twin” attacks, in which someone sets up a lookalike network to intercept traffic from unsuspecting travelers logging into corporate accounts.

The risk is not theoretical. On August 11, 2026, Delta confirmed that an unauthorized Wi-Fi network briefly appeared on a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta, one day after the DEF CON security conference wrapped up in the city. The rogue network, styled to look like the plane's real onboard Wi-Fi, disrupted the legitimate service for roughly 30 minutes and was reportedly built to harvest login credentials from passengers who connected to it. Delta said no aircraft systems were affected and notified federal law enforcement; the incident was widely read in the security community as a live demonstration of how easily a convincing fake network can be stood up in a crowded travel environment.

The renewed travel volume, combined with incidents like the Delta flight, is prompting some corporate IT and security teams to revisit remote-access policies for staff on the road, including tightening rules around which networks employees can use to reach company systems and, in some cases, requiring a VPN connection by default rather than leaving it optional.

Consumer and business VPN providers are among the companies reporting renewed attention from corporate users ahead of the year's travel season. Planet VPN, a VPN provider headquartered in Romania, is one such service, positioning itself around a no-logs policy and RAM-only server infrastructure that it says leaves no persistent record of a user's connection once a session ends.

Security researchers generally advise travelers to treat any network they do not control as untrusted by default, avoid entering credentials on networks that require odd sign-in steps, and rely on a reputable VPN or their company's own remote-access tools rather than whichever open network is closest at hand. For a security layer that many travelers already have access to but rarely turn on, it remains one of the simplest changes available heading into a busier travel year.

Beyond turning on a VPN, security teams point to a handful of habits that catch most of the remaining risk: disabling auto-join for open networks so a device doesn't silently reconnect to a familiar-looking name, double-checking a hotel or airline's official network name at the front desk or gate rather than trusting whatever appears first in a Wi-Fi list, turning off file sharing before connecting to any public network, and treating multi-factor authentication prompts that appear unprompted as a signal to stop and verify rather than approve. None of these require special technical knowledge, which is part of why researchers keep repeating them — the gap is usually awareness, not access to the tools.

About Planet VPN

Planet VPN is a Romania-based VPN provider focused on helping users secure their internet connections on public and untrusted networks. The service promotes a no-logs approach and RAM-only server infrastructure designed to minimize persistent connection data.

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