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 -
- It's been a bad week for Lufthansa. They did expand their green fares to other markets, many were quick to point out how most of those fare are in some cases more than double the basic economy fare.
- Then they had a complete system meltdown later in the week. There were many posts about this.
- In a move of historical significance, EL AL Israel Airlines and Etihad launch a frequent flyer partnership.
- TripStax, a TMC technology supplier, adds Jyrney to their offering.
- In South American aviation news it is reported that LATAM Airlines is also interested in buying Viva, Colombia's third largest airline.
- Clive Wratten writes about some strong comments made by Steve Heapy of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays where he talks about the airline industry being the "whipping boy" in the sustainability row.
- Norwegian Airlines invests heavily in their frequent flyer program in order to - what he suspects - grow their corporate business.
- 👀 Meanwhile
Whilst all the focus is on Tata Group / Air India Limited and their huge aircraft orders, here is a different aviation story from India: https://lnkd.in/ecq3vvdD - Bonus Stories and Space News!
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