Linking the Travel Industry | with Susan Enners from Magnatech Travel Solutions

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 5 a.m.

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 ongoing war in Israel severely disrupts flights to/from the region with several reports of airline cancellations. I even saw a post about a BA flight turning around shortly before touchdown in Tel Aviv as rockets were hitting near the airport.
  • China Eastern orders 100 COMAC C919s.
  • Andy Hoskins reports from the recent ITM | Institute of Travel Management autumn conference where buyers "confronted airlines with NDC woes". 
  • Skift shares news about an anticipated GCC Zone unified visa which is set to facilitate easy travel between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, fostering the region's tourism.
  • A fire at London Luton Airport causes major disruption.
  • In a sudden announcement, Malaysia's MYAirline suspended operations, citing ‘significant financial pressures'
  • In a story off LinkedIn: United Airlines will offer data feeds to the Concur Compleat and Cornerstone travel agency mid-office systems to aid reporting for changed corporate bookings. 
  • Extra Stories including Travel Trivia
  • Space News!

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