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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 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 -

• Norse Atlantic Airways decides to enter the GDS distribution chain in a deal with WorldTicket, and Adrian Keating's post about this raises a few eyebrows with his choice of words: https://lnkd.in/dzrppqKi
• Heathrow introduces a cap on flights to try and match the limited resources now in place at the airport. It backfires on them massively, especially with the very short notice period of 36 hours to airlines. Harvey L. sums it up in two words here: https://lnkd.in/d4riG88X
• Emirates took the fight public and said "they refuse" to comply with this request, especially at such short notice. Many people posted about this including Tony Anderson from easyGroup, saying this is unlikely to end well. https://lnkd.in/dNkmBm_h
• Delta Air Lines had to take the extreme step of flying an empty plane to LHR simply to collect left behind luggage. Kevin Coffey tells us more about this here: https://lnkd.in/dq3GQTT6
• The airport disruptions are in other European hubs as well, and Icelandair is reportedly flying their own baggage handlers on some of their flights now! https://lnkd.in/dyEhrteC
• Virgin Atlantic finally producing a new premier product - the Retreat. Here's Shashank's take on it. https://lnkd.in/d_TwWdbq
• Lufthansa announces GDS fees that will differ per GDS. Seems cheapest on Amadeus and most expensive on Travelport. Felix Dannegger asks if this is how GDS distribution starts crumbling. https://lnkd.in/dZE8Y4pZ

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