Linking the Travel Industry | SAS, Scandinavian Airlines joins SkyTeam & Air France-KLM
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 -
- The news of the week certainly was the deal SAS - Scandinavian Airlines struck with a consortium of investors, one of them being Air France-KLM, who will end up with a 20% stake.
- Israeli passport holders become eligible for the US visa waiver or ESTA.
- A corporate client led the way for an NDC development with their preferred airline and TMC in this interesting story.
- Hopper cuts 30% of their staff to try and get profitable.
- More aircraft orders:
- by United Airlines
- by Cathay Pacific - Phenomal growth at UK based Travel Counsellors, who achieved £200m in corporate travel sales and added 1,400 new SME clients in their current financial year.
- Emirates signs a deal with Shell Aviation for an initial 300,000 gallons of SAF fuel.
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