Linking the Travel Industry | American Airlines Doubles Down

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 -

• This week we saw two major airlines in financial trouble:
  - Brazilian airline GOL Linhas Aéreas filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US.
  - Canadian ultra-low cost carrier Flair Airlines owes $67m in unpaid taxes as the Canadian Revenue Service starts seizing assets.
• After last week's news of Ryanair and OTA loveholidays making a deal, this week we heard of them and Kiwi.com forging a partnership.
• It was also announced that kiwi.com is laying off about 1/5th of their team (as a result of this deal perhaps?).
• American Airlines doubles down on it's internet and direct distribution strategy. 
• Virgin Atlantic teams up with China Eastern Airlines Global. 
• Amadeus acquires biometrics solution company Vision-Box for €320m. 
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