Linking the Travel Industry - Week 40

Send us Fan Mail 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 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 - SkyTeam gets a new CEO with Patrick Roux from Air France-KLM moving into this position. https://lnkd.in/enecX25c Heathrow airport removes the passenger cap. I saw this in a post by The BTA with insightful comments by Clive Wratten: https://lnkd.in/esNdfkfq Flyr reduces capacity by up to 50% - some view it as positioning itself for a lower winter demand, some as a means to protect it's cashflow. https://lnkd.in/e4MRJHz6 Longhaul LCC airline Norse Atlantic Airways receives certification from the UK Civil Aviation authority, allowing it to fly to/from the UK. https://lnkd.in/eU83X-nW TAMS (Travel and Meeting Society) launches a membership scheme. https://lnkd.in/eDPrh2XA Three Hong Kong travel related stories: - In what must have been a very difficult decision, Virgin Atlantic permanently closes it's Hong Kong office and cancels flying there. https://lnkd.in/exgiiNDZ - At the same time, Hong Kong itself announces the giveaway of 500,000 airline tickets to the island in a desperate attempt to revive it's once thriving tourism sector. https://lnkd.in/eJqkna44 - United Airlines plans to restart services there from January. https://lnkd.in/efgj-8TG SAS - Scandinavian Airlines announces dramatic changes to it's distribution model. Amongst other things it will start paying agents commissions again, to then have the agent use that to pay for the distribution costs. Felix Dannegger asks some important questions about this here https://lnkd.in/eBj7RZgD Tune in every week to get your weekly update. You can subscribe to this podcast by searching BusinessTravel360 on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora or Spotify. Support the show