Linking the Travel Industry | Qatar Airways Makes Big Moves with Virgin Australia

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 audience members.  You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com

Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah

Stories covered on this session include -

• Qatar Airways pax can now earn Avios points on Deutsche Bahn with DB rail bookings made using a QR flight number.
• The South African airline Airlink creates a codeshare with Qantas. I find this interesting as recently QR took a stake in Airlink.
• The intentions of QR to invest in Virgin Australia become a reality, with the news they will own a 25% stake.
• Southwest Airlines gets an interesting shareholder in the form of the original IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal, who bought $100m worth of shares in the airline.
• Lufthansa Group blames .... Lufthansa. During a recent media briefing, group CEO Carsten Spohrt referred to LH as the “problem child” within the company’s diverse airline portfolio.
• Spirit Airlines are considering a possible chapter 11 bankruptcy approach. 
• Ryanair will eliminate paper boarding passes.
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