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 -
- The JetBlue / Spirit Airlines merger is not going to happen.
- Mews, a cloud solution for hoteliers, raise €101m in funding.
- American Express adds virtual card payment options into American Express Global Business Travel's Neo1 platform.
- American Airlines announced a mega plane order. But their cost-over-environment choice of one of the plane types is questioned by Maria Weber.
- The new Alaska Airlines electronic bagtag is a winner.
- British Airways announce £7 billion worth of investment news.
- Austrian Airlines's way of operating is costing them. Maria Weber lifts the lid on something quite unbelievable here.
- Air Passenger Duty is to increase in the UK, in a move described as disastrous by the UK travel industry.
- FESTIVE ROAD founding partner Paul Tilstone leaves the company to form a new business focusing on supplier consulting.
- RyanAir teams up with Kyte to offer full access to their inventory into the corporate travel space.
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