Linking the Travel Industry | Japan Airlines Flight Crashes with Coast Guard Plane

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 -Boeing endures yet another 737 Max setback with the news that all of them would need to be inspected for a potential loose bolt.Most of us were utterly gripped with the incredible story of how the crew of Japan Airlines flight JL516 managed to save all 379 pax and crew on board after a runway collision with a Japanese Coast Guard flight, which sadly lost 5 crew members in the incident. UK based Travel Counsellors makes a technology investment with the acquisition of Planisto, a platform enabling them to build highly complex travel itineraries and "presenting these intuitively to consumers." It was also interesting to hear CEO EO Steve Byrne announce they've set aside £15m for tech and AI in 2024. Ryanair made the headlines this week for their bizarre war on OTAs, first complaining about them screen scraping, then moaning about them not showing their flights.Iberia staff is on strike over the next few (critical holiday) days, resulting in the cancellation of more than 440 flights. The good news is they have found solutions for up to 91% of the affected 45,000 passenger.China is making changes to visa regulations for some in a move to encourage more tourism:- They've made an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visas for each other from March.- They have eased requirements for US travellers, as reported by Beyond Business Travel.SpaceX deploys direct-to-smartphone satellitesYou 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