Linking the Travel Industry | Hopper & Hotelbeds Announce a New Distribution Agreement

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 -

• Amadeus and Microsoft are partnering to develop an #AI powered travel related tasks assistant, in conjunction with Accenture.
• More aircraft orders:
  - Air France-KLM announced orders worth $16B.
  - Air Canada ordered 18 new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners.
• Bonza airlines in Australia expands into package holidays, and will now enable travellers to book an entire holiday within their app.
• Ukraine's SkyUp Airlines receives a foreign air carrier certificate from the United States, allowing them to operate flights to that market. 
• UK based TAG travel group acquires Sydney based conference and incentive agent CCM Travel.
• A story behind the story? Ryanair welcomes the EU's decision to prevent Booking.com from acquiring Etraveli Group.
• ... whilst their CEO Michael O'Leary calls for the resignation of the Gatwick air traffic control chief.
• New routes: VivaAerobus announced six new routes and five new US destinations.
• Hotelbeds and Hopper announce a new distribution agreement. 
• Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian admitted this week they "probably went too far" with the recent changes in their frequent flyer program. 
• Incoming Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson starts her new role by apologizing.

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