Linking the Travel Industry | Featuring the "Rumour of the week"

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Business Travel 360

Mar 07, 2023 Season 1 Episode 30

By Riaan, Ann & Aash

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 -

Posts of a possible partnership or codeshare between Emirates and Air India Limited started to emerge.
The grey area of accurate CO2 numbers in our industry is even more cloudy when it comes to airlines such as Ryanair, who - in their typical style - report about passenger load factors differently to almost any other airline.
London Luton Airport aims to have the security tech in place to abolish the 100ml liquids-in-hand-luggage rule before the end of 2023.
Leading UK TMC Gray Dawes Travel continues with their global expansion. After recently aquiring a TMC in Australia, they have now made two key appointments to drive their expansion in North America.
Amazon moves to BCD Travel as it's corporate TMC, a loss for CWT though they retain the lodging business of the retail giant.
Turkish Airlines, who posted a whopping $2.7b profit for 2022, is looking for spend some of that money in further football marketing, with a potential shirt sponsorship with Inter Milan.
👀 Meanwhile
Booking.com and Airbnb sit on $22 billion of cash. How will they spend it?
Feel good story of the week:
Turkish Airlines flying back rescue dogs in business class rather than in the hold. https://lnkd.in/dw7mhkNj
Rumour of the week:
My rumour of the week evolves around more revelations coming out of the American Airlines camp.
And yes, SPACE NEWS!

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Posts of a possible partnership or codeshare between Emirates and Air India Limited started to emerge.
The grey area of accurate CO2 numbers in our industry is even more cloudy when it comes to airlines such as Ryanair, who - in their typical style - report about passenger load factors differently to almost any other airline.
London Luton Airport aims to have the security tech in place to abolish the 100ml liquids-in-hand-luggage rule before the end of 2023.
Leading UK TMC Gray Dawes Travel continues with their global expansion. After recently aquiring a TMC in Australia, they have now made two key appointments to drive their expansion in North America.
Amazon moves to BCD Travel as it's corporate TMC, a loss for CWT though they retain the lodging business of the retail giant.
Turkish Airlines, who posted a whopping $2.7b profit for 2022, is looking for spend some of that money in further football marketing, with a potential shirt sponsorship with Inter Milan.
👀 Meanwhile
Booking.com and Airbnb sit on $22 billion of cash. How will they spend it?
Feel good story of the week:
Turkish Airlines flying back rescue dogs in business class rather than in the hold. https://lnkd.in/dw7mhkNj
Rumour of the week:
My rumour of the week evolves around more revelations coming out of the American Airlines camp.
And yes, SPACE NEWS!

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Business Travel 360

Linking the Travel Industry | Featuring the "Rumour of the week"

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