Linking the Travel Industry | Air France-KLM buys Stake in WestJet

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:

• Eastern Airways (UK) Ltd goes into administration, with all flight operations cancelled.
• Air France-KLM buys a minority stake in WestJet.
• IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) launch their Delhi - Guangzhou and Mumbai–London routes.
• With Riyadh Air | طيران الرياض's inaugural London flights came some posts about how they are doing things differently. Me and some others asked more questions about the phrase "Delivery with Order" and Benjamin Waymark from INKdid a great job at explaining these in more detail. 
• Two major incidents of bad behaviour on flights this week:
  📌 A United Airlines flight was delayed for more than 4 hours after an onboard dispute broke out between two flight attendants before departure.
  📌A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt was forced to divert to Boston after a passenger allegedly stabbed two teenagers with a metal fork and assaulted another traveler mid-flight.
• Richard Branson's post about Virgin being given the OK to launch a competitor service to Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel is met with huge applause by thousands.
• Extra Stories
  • British Airways & Qatar snafu
  • United announces amazing Q3 results in premium
  • JetBlue & United go live with Blue Skies

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