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Welcome to What’s Up in Business Travel for Week 24 of 2025. This is a weekly podcast where we update you on what’s up this week in the world of business travel. This podcast is great for those who need to know what’s happening all in under 15 minutes.

Topics covered during this podcast -

• World’s best airline for 2025 named by Skytrax
• US investigators urge action on Boeing 737 Max engine
• American Express GBT launches ad campaign
• Hyatt completes $2.6 Billion Playa acquisition
• US air sales continue decline
• JetBlue to reduce flights
• Air India scales back international flights
• Hilton to open 100+ new hotels
• Southwest plans flights to Reykjavik
• Air New Zealand adds more premium seats
• Groupize rebrands with an AI-first strategy
• Thrust Carbon launches NetZero Forecaster
• Apple adds passports to Apple Wallet
• Zeno integrates Amadeus NDC Content

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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 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 -

• Jetstar Asia Airways will cease operations by 31 July after a decision by their owner Qantas.
• Apple made two big announcements about their support for digital identities, and it has huge potential impacts on passport and other identity processes in travel.
• Eurostar announced plans to operate new rail services between London and Frankfurt as well as Geneva.
• An American Airlines flight to Naples had to divert to Rome during the flight as it was discovered the aircraft type was not catered for in the airport's Rescue and Fire Fighting Services certification category.
• Silver Airways ends all their operations.
• Air India Limited flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London crashes shortly after take-off, with one known survivor only.
• Escalating conflict between Israel and Iran closes airspace over them as well as lraq and Jordan. https://lnkd.in/da-d5dTV
• Extra Stories
• Space News!

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Welcome to What’s Up in Business Travel for Week 23 of 2025. This is a weekly podcast where we update you on what’s up this week in the world of business travel. This podcast is great for those who need to know what’s happening all in under 15 minutes.

Topics covered during this podcast -

• London bound Air India flight crashes
• PwC tempers 2025 Hotel Forecast
• FAA caps flights at Newark Airport
• Path cleared for Overland Supersonic
• Jetstar Asia is set to close this summer
• Silver Airways ceases operations
• Icelandic Carrier PLAY Airlines Drops All U.S. Flights
• SAS, WestJet to Launch Codeshare
• Lufthansa, ITA Airways to Expand Codeshare
• Etihad and Ethiopian Airlines’ codeshare agreement takes off
• American introduces Instant Upgrade
• Marriott introduces Marriott Media
• Alaska to Expand 737 Premium Seating, Features
• Alaska Airlines plans first Europe route
• Porter Airlines Launches Four New Routes

You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.com

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

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