Linking the Travel Industry | Etihad & EVA Airways Announce Direct Corporate Portals

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 -

• Air traffic controllers at Newark airport lost contact with planes for 90 seconds. The incident was later blamed on a burnt out wire.
• A few days later, the US announce a $12.5b upgrade to it's ATC infrastructure.
• Etihad Airways and EVA Airways Corp. become the latest airlines to announce corporate direct portals.
• Most European airlines suspend flights to Tel Aviv after rockets reached the airport's perimeter.
• Less than a year after it's launch, AirAsia X will suspend it's Kuala Lumpur - Nairobi service due to low demand.
• In another route cancellation, Wizz Air abandons the Milan - Abu Dhabi route. The first flight was scheduled for 2 June.
• The TMC AmTrav, a TravelPerk Company deploys flight seat map visualisations to their customers with ATPCO's RouteHappy Visuals product.
• Finnair cancels 100 flights due to an ongoing labour strike. 
• Talma Travel Solutions expands their US presence by acquiring a majority stake in Solutions Travel.
• Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline announces an agreement with Atlas as their third "approved OTA aggregator".

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