Linking the Travel Industry | American Airlines gets bold with AAdvantage Business

Send us Fan MailLinking 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 -ITA Airways launches an intermodal offering with Deutsche Bahn.Will the high-speed rail link between Europe and Africa finally get built?Choice Hotels International makes a hostile bid for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, suggesting they are worth $7.8 billion.Thai Airways International hope to complete their acquisition of Thai Smile Airways soon. American Airlines keep making bold moves in the corporate travel space, this time by removing any AAdvantage Business benefits if your booking is made anywhere else but directly with the airline.Munich-based corporate travel and expense platform Lanes & Planes announce a $35 million funding round.Icelandair announces profits of US$85m in one quarter.Budget carrier Cebu Pacific Air gets in the queue to potentially order new aircraft worth $12b.TripStack has named Nok Air as the first carrier for itsvirtual interlining solution.You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Alexa or your favorite podcast player.This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show