Linking the Travel Industry | IndiGo places a massive 500 Airbus order

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 -If you've ever had a flight disrupted due to a technical fault, I'm quite sure your experience was not as good as how Dhruv Talwar was treated recently by Air India Limited.The big news of the week as of course the massive 500 Airbus plane order by IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd).It raised a few posts, including this one by Jay Sorensen, where questions were asked about the carbon impact of the massive growth we're seeing from certain airlines.Spain's Renfe rail company is going big on cross-border train routes in Europe. Lufthansa sells AirPlus International to a Swedish bank, SEB Kort. Air France-KLM once again increases distribution costs in the GDS EDIFACT channel, but only for leisure agents. CWT signs a partnership deal with Spotnana.Wings Global Travel buys out the tech firm behind it's platform, and in which it's been a majority investor in.BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation - is taking 17 airlines to court over their carbon offsetting practices and carbon neutrality claims. Delta Air Lines is currently running a major status match offer which is receiving a lot of attention.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