Linking the Travel Industry | Southwest Leads the Way with New Onboard Portable Charger Rules

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 -

• Japan's Kansai airport sets a high standard by not losing a single piece of luggage for 30 continuous years.
• A DoorDash driver makes a few wrong turns and ends up on the tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
• Ghana will try and revive it's failed national airline in a new partnership with the United Arab Emirates.
• Following on from a rise in in-flight issues with portable charging devices, Southwest Airlines becomes the first US airline to introduce a "must be visible during flight" policy on such devices.
• Swiss International Air Lines is forced to cut about 1,400 flights between now and October due to pilot shortages.
• We finally get to see what Steve Singh planned with his acquisition of Direct Travel last year; a combination of Spotnana tech with the TMC's "network for support" in a package they call Avenir.
• Luxair is taking the EU to court, arguing that smaller airlines like itself were left out of the slot allocations at Milan Linate following the Lufthansa / ITA Airways deal.
• Extra Stories

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