Linking the Travel Industry | Air China Flight Catches Fire After Lithium Battery Ignites

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:

• An Air China flight encounters a burning lithium battery in an overhead baggage compartment, and is forced to divert. Petter Hörnfeldt calls this the biggest threat to aviation today, and I agree.
• An in-flight cockpit intercom issue on an American Airlines flight cause the pilots to think there is a cockpit intrusion happening, prompting the flight to return to it's originating airport.
• After entering voluntary administration in July 2024, Australian airline Rex Airlines might have a new lifeline in the form of an acquisition by US based Air T, Inc.
• A British Airways flight from London to Kuala Lumpur got cancelled after a ground vehicle became lodged beneath the aircraft.
• The partnership between Qatar Airways and Kenya Airways takes off with news of a codeshare between the two airlines on 19 routes.
• Bennett Jordan reminds us why it's a very bad idea to post images of your boarding pass on social media.
• Extra Stories
  • Is the PNR destined to disappear?
  • Lyft acquires TBR Global Chauffeuring
  • ASTA launches tool to address late hotel commissions

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