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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 -

• Avianca, Colombia's biggest airline, made the news with two big stories this week:
  ...They are introducing a subscription service
  ...Their merger with Viva gets a green light.
• United Airlines' very innovative advertising campaign on the roofs of New York cabs to convince people of why EWR is a better choice than JFK caught my eye. 
• Air France-KLM would like 90% of indirect sales to be via #ndc by 2027.
• and related to this, American Express Global Business Travel announces an integration with the AF/KL NDC content via Egencia and its Neo booking tool. 
• High speed rail is coming to the US.
• Turkish Airlines celebrates flying it's 1 billionth passenger. 
• We all know loyalty is big business for airlines. Just how big became evident when International Airlines Group (IAG) started reporting seperately on their #avios loyalty program recently.
• Meanwhile ...
  Southwest Airlines extends it's partnership with Amadeus, with further investment in Amadeus Altea and Kambr, to do ... I'll leave this one to Ann to explain to us on our Monday session.

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