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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 real audience members.  You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com and registering for the next event.

Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah.

Stories covered on this session include -

• United Airlines and Archer announce the first commercial electric air taxi route in Chicago. 
• Skift publishes their latest travel startup investment report, with news that $110m were invested in five startups this week alone
• Remember the previous Italian airline Alitalia? The EU ruled this week that their state aid to the tune of €400m was illegal and they have to pay it back.
• Aviation history was made this when the largest plane powered by hydrogen fuel took off.
• A UK aviation tax cut makes little sense, but Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline is making the most of it.
• Our newsfeeds were clogged with the American Airlines #ndc deadline saga happening on Monday 3 April.
• Some travel sellers, like the the French OBT Travel Planet were confident enough to step up say they are ready
• BCD Travel summed up the NDC situation really well
• Whilst from others, especially SAP Concur, the silence was deafening, despite questions being asked about their AA NDC offering in several posts.
• The #gds and airline PR machines were in full spin
• And even more bizarre "announcements" about Sabre and AA content deals, though we know it's been in place.
• Travelport put out plenty of posts about them also being more than ready for this change by AA, it was interesting to note we saw very little about this from Amadeus.
• Meanwhile, Johnny Thorsen had enough of all this (he's not the only one) and coined the phrase #TravelConfusion
• Extra Stories and yes.,,,SPACE NEWS!

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