Linking the Travel Industry - Week 43

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 -

• Hawaiian Airlines signs a deal with Amazon to operate some of their prime flights. https://lnkd.in/e7vy_Apu
• The American Airlines distribution deals with all the major GDSs caused a lot of discussion this week. Apart from some, most of us saw this as extremely positive news and a very healthy approach by them on NDC content. I'll list two of the many posts on this:
  - By Darren from Navitas Solutions Ltd: https://lnkd.in/evXv-tT9
  - By Daniel Langhage from Oystin: https://lnkd.in/eAH8pEAi
• Feel good story of the week: There's good news out of Africa about the environmental attitude of most airlines there in this post by Juan from ForwardKeys - https://lnkd.in/ei6hn9AJ
• Who'd have thought and extra 4 inches can result in 30 extra seats on a plane! Dirk Singer from SimpliFlying brings us this story: https://lnkd.in/eyb3WS7t
• Would you sit in a middle seat if you could potentially win a lottery? Virgin Australia hopes so - they've launched a lottery but it's only open to those who sit in the middle seats on their flights. Ann posted about this: https://lnkd.in/epHDveFv
• The Lufthansa Group is optimistic about the uplift in travel, showing good recovery in their latest financials. https://lnkd.in/e4VeW-KX

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Chapters

• 1:23 Hawaiian Airlines signs a deal with Amazon to operate some of their prime flights
• 3:08 There's good news out of Africa about the environmental attitude of most airlines
• 4:45 Who'd have thought and extra 4 inches can result in 30 extra seats on a plane
• 6:39 Would you sit in a middle seat if you could potentially win a lottery?
• 9:34 The Lufthansa Group is optimistic about the uplift in travel, showing good recovery in their latest financials
• 10:47 The American Airlines distribution deals with all the major GDSs caused a lot of discussion this week
• 17:26 Bonus Stories