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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 session include -

• A Delta Air Lines Airbus encountered an engine fire whilst on the ground at Orlando Airport; the flight was evacuated safely with no injuries.
• The US Federal Aviation Administration has mandated a $3.4 million fleet-wide fix for defective Boeing 737 lavatory door latches following multiple passenger entrapments.
• Trainline increases it's Spanish presence by purchasing online train and bus booking platform Trenes.com
• Partnership Travel Consulting, LLC can now audit airfares for both managed and unmanaged bookings made by their clients, as a result of a partnership with Traxo.
• Chinese aircraft manufacturer COMAC announces Air China as a launch customer for their wide-body aircraft, the C929.
• IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) teams up with popular Indian food delivery and dine-out booking provider Swiggy, allowing Bluchip members to earn points which can be redeemed to book IndiGo flights.
• Delta Air Lines' partnership with Uber went live this week.
• Pakistan closes it's airspace to Indian flight operators as a result of rising tensions between the two nations. It adds substantial flight times to as many as 100 flights a day.
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