Linking the Travel Industry | Lufthansa Taps Amadeus Nevio & Predictions for 2026

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:

• Travel industry fintech platform Travel Ledger integrates with Expedia Group's Travel Agent Affiliate Program to offer seamless reporting on virtual card spend by the agent.
• Amadeus announces that Lufthansa Group has chosen their Nevio platform for 9 of the group's airlines to "power a traveler-centric transformation toward modern airline retailing".
• Royal Schiphol Group receives plenty of criticism for a recent disruption to Schiphol airport from what appears to be a total lack of planning for adverse winter weather.
• Last month a new high-speed rail service between Doha and Riyadh was announced. Kit Aspen dives into this a bit more with his thoughts on this.
• The most engaged post of the week goes to Gilbert Ott, who recently joined oneworld Alliance as their Director of Loyalty.
• This is a special edition of the podcast. Whilst we will discuss the above, each of us have come up with a wish list item for our industry & predictions for 2026.

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