Linking the Travel Industry | Feature Story: Mastercard takes a stake in Sabre

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 -

• easyJet and Rolls-Royce make history with the world’s first run of a modern aero engine on green hydrogen. 
• Gatwick Airport gets a boost with British Airways significantly expanding international routes from there.
• oneworld Alliance is keen to get China Southern Airlines signed up.
• In a mostly digital and virtual world, there is news that Emirates opened a physical store.
• Mastercard takes a stake in Sabre Corporation owned Conferma Pay. We hear from the CEO at Conferma - Martin Cowley.
• Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline does not appreciate Scott Kirby from United Airlines calling LCCs "ponzi schemes".
• Frontier Airlines drops customer support by phone, instead offering email or live chat only. 
• Two significant #africa aviation stories:
  • 15 airlines are working on a pilot scheme to create a single unified #airtransport market.
  • Air France is to introduce direct Paris to Dar es Salaam flight, in a big win for #tanzania.

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