Linking the Travel Industry | Air France-KLM Raises €1B

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 -

• Air France-KLM raise €1.3b in cash by mortaging their frequent flyer database.
• Airline technology company Volantio finds another customer in Icelandair, who launched their Revenue Rebook platform.
• PLAY airlines becomes the first European LCC airline to sell front row seats with the middle seat blocked, putting that offer on par with traditional airline's European business class product. 
• "Monster" earnings revealed by both AF/KLM and the International Airlines Group (IAG) groups.
• TravelBank delivers the ability to do bookings on Lufthansa's NDC channel. 
• Flybondi.com in Argentina is taking their ticket marketplace to the next level by allowing passengers to now also resell their tickets to others. 
• Robert Kiernan brings us the news that easyJet can charge as much as £34 in point of sale fees.
• Sabre Corporation reports a 12% increase in bookings for their 3rd quarter results, and they've also increased their average booking fee.
• More aircraft orders: Korean Air orders 20 additional Airbus A321neo aircraft.
• Trivia & Extra Stories

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