Linking the Travel Industry - Week 37

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 -

• Rolls-Royce terminates their working arrangement with Boom Supersonic, raising speculation by some about the future of this project. Paul Perera asks some pertinent questions: https://lnkd.in/ejpUv4jA
• Lufthansa wants 20,000 more employees by the end of next year. I spotted this in a post by Rudy Horn from United Airlines. https://lnkd.in/eXBE-ZhP
• Staying with LH, they signed a deal with Amadeus to provide #NDC content by Q4 2022 in what Felix Dannegger suggests will come with different commercial models. https://lnkd.in/eqQuVf7a
• And in even more Lufthansa news, the German government is selling it's stake they required in it during the most recent bailout. Kaan Kaymak from Turkish Airlines provided us with a link to this story: https://lnkd.in/eD5yWyju
• UK domestic holiday giant Centre Parks received fierce backlash from their decision to close their parks during the Queen's funeral. Suzanne Lugthart posted about this PR fiasco: https://lnkd.in/edWns98c
• TAP Air Portugal is going up for sale. They only recently had Christine Ourmières-Widener appointed as CEO. I saw this in a post by Jorge Díaz: https://lnkd.in/edX5P4X4
• AMS Schiphol Airport CEO Dick Benschop steps down as the airport continues to struggle with long lines and flight cancellations caused by a staffing shortage. Nick Careen from IATA posted about this: https://lnkd.in/eP5X3HFM

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Chapters

• 1:29 Rolls-Royce terminates their working arrangement with Boom Supersonic
• 3:50 Lufthansa wants 20,000 more employees by the end of next year
• 7:05 LH signed a deal with Amadeus to provide NDC content by Q4 2022
• 11:57 In more Lufthansa news, the German government is selling its stake they required in it during the most recent bailout
• 14:07 UK domestic holiday giant Centre Parks received fierce backlash from their decision to close their parks during the Queen's funeral
• 16:29 TAP Air Portugal is going up for sale
• 20:07 AMS Schiphol Airport CEO Dick Benschop steps down as the airport continues to struggle