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Linking the Travel Industry | Omio Accelerates Global Growth with Rail Europe Acquisition
Season 4
Episode 8
Published 1 day, 7 hours 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 podcast episode include:
- Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is forming a new B2B unit that brings together Booking.com, Agoda, and Priceline. It will be led by Agoda CEO Omri Morgenshtern.
- airBaltic is facing growing financial pressure and may require additional funding to remain viable.
- Following England’s 2–1 victory over Norway in the FIFA World Cup, Norwegian kept its promise by updating the profile picture on its Instagram account to the British Airways logo.
- The elimination of the air traffic tax has led to Letisko M. R. Štefánika - Airport Bratislava recording triple-digit passenger growth every month, making it the number one airport in Europe in terms of passenger growth.
- A single British Airways flight blocking the runway at London Gatwick airport led to 9 aircraft squawking fuel emergencies all at once and 14 total diversions before the airport reopened.
- The travel app Omio has entered into an agreement to acquire Rail Europe, and has received funding for expansion in Asia.
- Extra Stories.
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