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 -
- Vipper.com, who to aims to simplify the booking of rail, bus and flight tickets on one platform, raises a further €2M.
- Plans for commercial airlines to fly with just one pilot were quickly shut down by the European Aviation Regulator.
- A fire from "an electrical device" on a United Airlines plane sends 4 people to hospital.
- American Express announces it will partner with Microsoft to use AI and a "decision engine" to help with simplifying expense management.
- Airlink in South Africa and British Airways sign a codeshare agreement. There is a lot behind this story.
- Related to this, a fascinating story of the now defunct Comair Limited (who previously operated a BA domestic service in South Africa) suing Boeing for $83m in damages due to the issues around the 737 Max.
- 👀 Meanwhile...
- Business with pleasure... No that is not a suggestive hint.
- Some in our industry are having a meltdown over the possibilities of AI chat and travel search and the "revolution that is coming".
- Bonus Stories & YES....Space News!
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