Linking the Travel Industry | American Airlines Forces Buyers into Preferred Channels

Business Travel 360

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 -

• In the UK, American Express Global Business Travel has been granted a Rail Delivery Group Travel Agent Licence, allowing them to not only sell National Rail products but also offer refunds and customer care on those products.
• The Landline Company gains Air Canada as it's 4th airline customer. Edward Russell tells us more.
• ...whilst Canadian airline Lynx Air announce they are to shut down.
• SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) mandates in Singapore will result in airfare increases.
• UK based agency for the film and entertainment industry TAG expand their US operations with the acquisition of ATLANTIS TRAVEL & TOURS.
• The new Turkish Airlines wallet may not be all it seems to be. See why Seth Miller thinks so.
• The American Airlines move to force buyers into their preferred channels caused a great, divided debate on here. If you follow me you know where I stand on this; Mark Ross-Smith is on the same page and his post sums it up exceptionally well for me.

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