Linking the Travel Industry | Etihad Terminates their Partnership 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 -

•  The Advantage Travel Partnership forms a partnership with the UK’s Rail Delivery Group to increase the focus on train travel amongst corporate travellers.
• In the wake of Qatar Airways' pending investment in Virgin Australia, rival airline Etihad will terminate their partnership with VA.
• British Airways suffered flight disruptions this week due to an "IT failure" at the airline.
• ... and in an apparent u-turn from a previous decision announced just two weeks ago, BA has decided that flights between London and Bahrain will continue throughout 2025 after all.
• The India based OBT MakeMyTrip wants to strengthen its SME focused offering with the intent to buy the expense management platform Happay
• Estonia's fly Nordica and its subsidiary Xfly have announced their closure and will file for bankruptcy.
• RyanAir is looking for a beer partner, and Aoife Greene's post about this draws plenty of comments.
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