Feb 21 2025 18 mins 1
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 audience members. You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com
Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah
Stories covered on this session include -
- An ongoing dispute between Finnair and their pilots over their contracts are escalating to a possible furlough of up to 90 pilots. Qantas, with whom Finnair recently announced some wet lease agreements, have had to make some mitigations to those arrangements to avoid disruptions.
- Hyatt Hotels is re-organising it's range of brands into a grouping of five portfolios....
- ... they have also acquired Playa Hotels & Resorts for $2.6bn.
- Eurostar can finally restart direct Amsterdam to London services after refurbishment work at the Dutch station was completed. They've had to operate that route via Brussels since June 2024.
- Arcube, a post-flight loyalty and revenue optimisation solution for airlines, raised an additional $1.5m in funding.
- Sabre Corporation is sunsetting TripCase, and Mark Trim from Complex Travel Group is not the only TMC unhappy with how they handled that.
- Virgin Australia teams up with Hopper's B2B solution HTS to offer their customers "Cancel for Any Reason" flexibility.
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