Linking the Travel Industry | Japan Airlines wants to rent you clothes - too crazy an idea?
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 -
- Delta Air Lines and EL AL Israel Airlines have formed a strategic partnership agreement involving code sharing and reciprocal frequent flyer benefits.
- Global demand for travel will soon shift mostly to Asia, where 80% of the global middle class will be.
- Two very disturbing situations occurred on flights this week:
- On a RyanAir flight, a man who tried to open the aircraft door was tackled to the ground by passengers.
On a British Airways flight, a passenger violently stabbed another traveler using broken glass. - Sabre Corporation acquires Techsembly, an ecommerce player in the hotel space.
- JetBlue will not appeal a ruling ordering it to end its alliance with American Airlines, though AA will still do.
- European airline consolidation continues. Norwegian agrees to bye Widerøe.
- Meanwhile! Renting clothes to travel light - too crazy an idea? Japan Airlines does not think so.
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