Business Travel 360

Linking the Travel Industry | Qatar Airways goes First

March 28, 2024 By Riaan, Ann & Aash Season 2 Episode 19
Business Travel 360
Linking the Travel Industry | Qatar Airways goes First
Show Notes

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 -

  • Brussels Airlines is doing an interesting promotion for their new Nairobi routing when in starts later this year by offering free chauffeur transfers to inbound pax to many destinations in the area, irrespective of class of travel.
  • Qatar Airways' new CEO is bringing First Class back to the airline. 
  • CWT forms a partnership with carbon management company SQUAKE to "support the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the business travel industry, at scale." 
  • In a related development, Agentivity and Trees4Travel enhance their partnership with an automated data feed from a client's TMC, to make carbon managment for corporate buyers even easier.
  • SAS - Scandinavian Airlines gets US court approval for their chapter 11 restructuring plan.
  • Lufthansa Group reveals the stats around the uptake of their green fares across the group's airlines.
  • a Dutch court rules that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines misled customers about their sustainability claims.
  • Michael O'Leary from Ryanair publicly condemns Boeing

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