Linking the Travel Industry | Qantas Revamps Reward Flights, IdeaWorks Reports Higher Costs

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 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 -

• Qantas revamps the way customers can book reward flights with a major overhaul. However as the week progressed I spotted plenty of posts suggesting customers are underwhelmed and find it even more frustrating to use.
• In a related story, a study by Ideaworks suggests the cost of reward travel has risen sharply since 2019.
• United Airlines has scrapped the launch of two new transatlantic routes amid an audit by U.S. regulators.
• Travel Counsellors launch their first OBT for corporate customers.
• Whilst others in the region are experiencing strong growth, Oman Air filed reduced schedules and seem to be downsizing.
• The entertainment industry specialist TMC TAG is sold to private equity firm ECI Partners.
• Carolyn Pearson (Carr) brings us the shocking story about a passenger who had an utterly degrading experience when she was told to remove a breast prosthesis in a public area at Dublin Airport.
• Delta Air Lines talks about their NDC plans at the Elevate + Travel conference which was held this week.

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