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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 -

• Snowfall rescued the online booking tool PSNGR1 last year and they have now repackaged it as Junction One. 
• Sri Lankan Airways post a half a billion dollar loss.
• The sad news that Sabre Corporation is cutting it's workforce by up to 15% hits hard for many, with our posts filled with jobseekers having spent decades at the company. 
• Virgin Atlantic has been loss-making for six years in a row now. Robert Boyle asks some questions about this.
• BCD Travel names it's new CEO - Stephan Baars (De) - who will take over from John Snyder on 1 July.
• Lufthansa is testing facial recognition at Berlin airport, in lieu of boarding passes.
• Air Canada teams up with flydubai.
• This post by PaxExAero provides some interesting insights into one aspect of airline retailing, in-flight entertainment by easyJet.
• People want to do more business meetings, and blended travel keeps growing.
• Investment news:
  - Worldia, a B2B2C connected-trip company, raised €25 million in Series B funding.
• IBS Software sees Apax fund buy Blackstone's minority shares for $450M.

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This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!