Linking the Travel Industry | Qantas Announces New Distribution Plan

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 -

• TripStack and Aeroporti di Roma collaborate to deliver more virtual interline solutions for Rome's airports.
• American Express Global Business Travel proposes "remedies" to push through the CWT deal.
• An aircraft from the Russian airline Azimuth Airlines suffered an engine fire upon landing at Antalya airport in Türkiye. The rapid response of the airport's emergency crews contained the fire within 23 seconds and all pax evacuated safely as a result.
• COMAC announced that the first customer for its wide-body aircraft C929 which is still under development will be Air China.
• Apart from announcing a $1b retrofit program, Etihad Airways also revealed ten new routes.
• Qantas announces an distribution plan focused on NDC which they want to deploy from 1 July 2025, and it causes plenty of discussion. 

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