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Linking the Travel Industry | Sabre Sells Hospitality Business & Gray Dawes selects Sabre as Exclusive GDS
Season 3
Episode 17
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
Description
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 session include -
- Sabre Corporation sells it's hospitality business unit to asset firm TPG for $1.1b.
- ... and Gray Dawes Travel announce they have selected Sabre as their single global GDS provider.
- There's been a 40% increase in issues relating to pax electronic devices impacting flights, the latest being the diversion of a Lufthansa A380 due to an iPad stuck in a seat.
- Revolut is taking on American Express with plans for a rewards card of their own.
- Five Brand USA board members get removed from their posts.
- Uniglobe Travel International LP expand their footprint in a deal with ITP - International Travel Partnership | Hickory.
- The African Space Agency is officially inaugurated.
- American Airlines are suing JetBlue for $1M
- ...whilst rumours about a United Airlines / JetBlue partnership emerge.
- Lufthansa will stop on-board physical duty free sales on their long-haul flights.
- Virgin Atlantic, Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines all announce they will not return to Tel Aviv.
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