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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 audience members. You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com

Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah

Stories covered on this podcast episode include:

• Avis Budget Group will close their Zipcar car sharing service in the UK.
• Singapore Airlines, who already holds a 25% stake in Air India Limited, signs a broader agreement between the two airlines to work even more closely together.
• Pilots and unions come out very critical about the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) fine of only US$2.4m to IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) for their recent disruptions to flights.
• Spain’s competition authority imposes fines on four TMCs for allegedly colluding in public-sector tenders for corporate travel services.
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines starts offering free wi-fi on their inter-European flights. Marjan Rintel, CEO at KLM, talks about that.
• The hospitality property management system Mews raises US$300m, giving them a $2.5b evaluation.
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Welcome to the What’s Up in Business Travel podcast for Week 6 of 2026. This weekly podcast is great for those who need to know what’s happening in the world of business travel - in under 15 minutes.

On this week's podcast, we cover the following stories:

• AI adoption accelerates across hotels
• WTTC issues stark warning
• Embraer to build planes in India
• Expedia Group cuts jobs
• ARC launches orders-based reporting and settlement system
• American's indirect channel share 'Fully Restored'
• Navan to end Reed & Mackay Brand
• Qantas divests its share in Jetstar Japan
• Southwest launches assigned seating
• Avelo launches credit card
• Delta launches new Delta Business site
• KLM rolls out free wifi
• American Airlines upgrades app
• Apple AirTag 2 is released
• Accor launches app in ChatGPT

You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.com

This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!

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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 audience members. You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com

Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah

Stories covered on this podcast episode include:

• Heathrow Airport announces a £1.3bn investment programme for 2026.
• The Las Vegas based airline Allegiant is to acquire Sun Country Airlines in a $1.5bn cash and stock deal.
• eDreams ODIGEO and Tryp.com end up in a legal battle, raising plenty of discussion about agentic AI, screen-scraping and more.
• Google launches the Universal Commerce Protocol with a group of retailers. In a highly engaged and discussed post, Benjamin Rhatigan explores the future impact of this in how travel is bought and sold.
• Sabre Corporation invests in BizTrip AI to "bring agentic AI to corporate travel". In his post, Branko Karlezi talks about some of the results already achieved with this partnership.
• Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline decides against equipping it's fleet with Starlink internet connectivity.
• ...whilst Lufthansa Group does invest in Starlink, announcing that 850+ of the aircraft in many of their airlines will have this enabled, starting in the second half of 2026.
• China opens an antitrust probe into Trip.com Group due to alleged "monopolistic practices and abuse of its dominant market position".
• The most engaged post of the week goes to Rebecca Crook, where she talks about her frustration with the "something went wrong" message on British Airways' websites and app many of us are very familiar with.
• Extra Stories

You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.com

This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!

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