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 -
- Travelport acquires the corporate booking tool Deem, Inc. We are joined on Monday by Travelport VP Kyle Moore who will tell us all about this.
- Travel Counsellors acquires Holidaysplease.
- Meeting tech specialist Cvent is to be acquired by Blackstone for $4.6b.
- American Express Global Business Travel posted financial results for 2022, showing they were 143% up from 2021.
- The new Saudi Arabia airline Riyadh Air is officially announced.
- Clyde Travel Management strikes a direct #NDC content deal with Lufthansa.
- A passenger takes Emirates to court in New Zealand for failing to deliver the business class product as advertised, and wins.
- Lufthansa needs a stronger Air India Limited, and here's why their CEO Carsten Spohr thinks so.
- Trivia of the week:
Which airline has the most female pilots? The answer might surprise you - come find out during Monday's live event. - Meanwhile
- People are signing a petition to prevent Alaska Airlines from painting one of it's planes.
- One More Story & Space News!
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