Linking the Travel Industry - Week 34

Linking the Travel Industry is a business travel podcast where we review the top travel industry stories that are posted on LinkedIn by LinkedIn members.  We curate the top posts and discuss with them with travel industry veterans in a live session with real audience members.  You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com and registering for the next event.

Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah.

Stories covered on this session include -

• Pedro Castro tells us how Ryanair - Europe's Favorite Airline once again managed to get a multi-million euro advertising spend reduced to almost nothing and still achieve the same results. https://lnkd.in/dH-zqVmU
• ATPCO pulled a surprise out of their hat, announcing significant developments in their relationship with Southwest Airlines. https://lnkd.in/d2Ws3m4B
• We are seeing many of the familiar flight routes re-opening such as Manchester Beijing resumes. https://lnkd.in/dqa2QZZ7
• Pictures & videos of passengers having to walk miles underwater in the Eurotunnel after a train broke down certainly did not help our industry this week. https://lnkd.in/dRpNgE8W
• Here is an #NDC story we should all take note of. Why? Because it delivers what the real customer needed. Jeff Kurn from Visa rightfully celebrates the hard work Kim Hamer did to deliver what we all want NDC to be about. https://lnkd.in/d7MVRJ6Z
• Even the busiest airport in the world still manages to keep passengers united with their bags. Heathrow and AMS airports could learn a few lessons here according to Harvey. https://lnkd.in/dJYJ_KTr
• The change Google made in it's calculations of carbon emissions on flights caused a lot of controversy. This post from Beth Dooley has a great graphic on it showing you the differences in the old and new way of their calculations. https://lnkd.in/dgMttDj9
• ...and adding fuel to this fire is none other than John Oliver, hosting a segment where carbon offsetting is seriously questioned. This post by Shashank tells us more: https://lnkd.in/d7K_g2jp
• Plus Bonus Stories

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