Linking the Travel Industry | Ryanair Incentivizes Staff to Spot Oversized Cabin Bags

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 podcast episode include - 

• Korean Air is to purchase 103 Boeing aircraft in a deal worth approximately $36.2 billion.
• The OpenTravel Alliance becomes a member of Overture Maps Foundation, giving them access to the newly released Global Entity Reference System (GERS) to address standards for location data in travel distribution.
• In a heavily critiqued move, Tanzania introduces hefty passenger levies for travel to and from their country.
• Mexico city restores flight slots to US carriers, reversing a 2022 policy which favoured Mexican carriers.
• Ryanair increases staff rewards for catching passengers with oversized cabin bags.
• They are also not expanding on their presence in Belgium following a 150% increase in Belgian aviation tax.
• Air New Zealand reports a 14% drop in profits.
• The most engaged post of the week goes to Richard Valtr, founder at Mews, where he talks about how they now offer hotels a property management system which enables guests to use both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet as their room key.
• Extra Stories & Space News

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