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 -
- A story that dominated the headlines this week was the news that Air France-KLM had to suspend their agent booking tool on the agentconnect.biz website "due to a number of fraud cases".
- Air France-KLM could stop the FCM Travel subsidiary 3mundi from selling it's tickets altogether due to allged "irregularities" in how they were displaying ticket prices.
- Some good news for Boeing with the decision by United Airlines to order 100 new 787 Dreamliners with options to purchase 100 more.
- Despite IATA's "coaltion of the willing", Amadeus and Finnair announce they will create the next generation airline retail solution. They admit it won't be a quick journey, in some reports talking about "7-8 years".
- Eric Bailey and other industry participants publish a "Corporate Travel Purpose of Travel" platform document.
- Can you name the engine manufacturer Boom Supersonic turned to after Rolls-Royce left their partnership?
- Bonus Story - Our Top 3 Picks of 2022
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