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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 -

• Pakistan International Airlines keep hitting cashflow problems.
• United Airlines adds braille to the inside of their airplane cabins.
• American Airlines made some bold claims this week about their direct and NDC success, and announced more fares being removed from the EDIFACT channel. 
• Etihad's Loyalty Program will let you redeem NFTs for miles.
• Emirates starts to offer pre-flight meal ordering.
• Dublin Airport has been found in violation of planning permission, and told to curb night-time flights.
• Here is a great article by Skift on the travel "junk fee" crackdown happening in the US right now. "it is only a matter of time before travel companies get called out specifically in public"
• Record breaking airline profit announcements continue:
  - PLAY airlines more than doubled their revenue in Q2 this year vs last year, and carried more than 392,000 pax in that period with a load factor of 86%.
  - IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) posted profits that beat their previous records of 2019, pre-pandemic.

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