Linking the Travel Industry - Week 35

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 -

• Nigeria caves in to Emirates and releases $265 million to settle ticket sales owed them.  Paul van Alfen gives us the story. https://lnkd.in/ecuxnHVY
• You don't pay for your take-away meal two months in advance, so why should you for your flight? Dominic Short brings us a new business model in travel. https://lnkd.in/e8ifMsGe
• The Finnair - Qatar Airways deal has a lot more to it than just a partnership. Will Horton tells us why: https://lnkd.in/e8Vm4MUa
• In massive news - United Airlines and Emirates codeshare plans leak.  Jon Ostrower referred to it as "hell has frozen over"! https://lnkd.in/euEeE7cc
• Virgin Atlantic and IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) announce a new interline agreement. https://lnkd.in/e48fQUin
• Canada gets a new airline. Adam Wilcox tells us more: https://lnkd.in/eZ7aYAuj
• The Italian airline ITA Airways is likely to end up with AF/KL/DL as their partners after the Italian government decided it did not favour the Lufthansa / MSC offer. I saw this first on a post by Bernard: https://lnkd.in/e5rVS7v9
• Google is going to discontinue the ability to book flights out of most countries outside the US. Mohit Kumar spotted this. https://lnkd.in/eSWR7gvc
• Is $30b enough to launch a new airline? Kanika brings us news of a new Saudi airline in the making: https://lnkd.in/eMRAH7pG

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Chapters

• 1:31 Nigeria caves in to Emirates and releases $265 million to settle ticket sales owed them
• 3:00 You don't pay for your take-away meal two months in advance, so why should you for your flight?
• 9:47 The Finnair - Qatar Airways deal has a lot more to it than just a partnership
• 11:29 In massive news - United Airlines and Emirates code share plans leak
• 15:44 Virgin Atlantic and IndiGo announce a new interline agreement
• 17:20 Canada gets a new airline
• 18:17 The Italian airline ITA Airways is likely to end up with AF/KL/DL as their partner
• 24:44 Google is going to discontinue the ability to book flights out of most countries outside the US
• 26:00 Is $30b enough to launch a new airline?