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 -
- SAS - Scandinavian Airlines postpones it's controversial "wholesale" NDC model they came up with.
- Whilst not totally unexpected though still sad, the all-NDC airline Flyr filed for bankruptcy this week.
- Dennis Schaal from Skift writes one of the best travel related news items I've seen in a while, diving deep into what might be behind massive layoffs at Google Flight.
- Flight Centre Travel Group buys UK luxury tour operator Scott Dunn.
- A new LCC in Australia takes to the skies, complete with a wacky name - Bonza.
- Qatar Airways and Airbus settle their legal dispute about paint peeling on the A350s... Finally.
- Meanwhile (a new section being introduced this week)
- Virgin Atlantic is re-instating it's London/Shanghai service, whilst I saw British Airways were also resuming some routes to China.
- Apparently TripActions will rebrand themselves to Navan
- Bonus Stories and Space News!
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