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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 podcast episode include:

• It's reported that some Swiss International Air Lines cabin crew are refusing to include the mandatory mention of the Lufthansa Group ownership in their cabin announcements.
• Two Iberia and Air Europa planes narrowly avoided a mid-air collision over the Atlantic Ocean after their Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) activated while the aircraft were flying toward each other at the same altitude.
• JetBlue spends $58.5m on ex Spirit Airlines slots at New York's LaGuardia airport.
• Saadia Zahidi from the World Economic Forum will become the next Director General at International Air Transport Association (IATA).
• Emirates rejects the first 10 Boeing 777X aircraft from its order of 270 jets, citing extensive design changes and years of programme delays. 
• Austrian Airlines flight got delayed after crew discovered a man managed to enter the aircraft whilst it was parked overnight at Košice airport in Slovakia.
• Following other US airlines, United Airlines also introduces a ban on humanoid and animal-like robots on their aircraft. 
• Emirates face a lot of backlash after keeping 373 passengers for 10 hours on an A380 aircraft whilst being stuck on the ground at an incorrect Chinese airport after a diversion.
• Both Lufthansa and Air France-KLM submit bids for a stake in TAP Air Portugal.
• A power bank catches fire in an overhead compartment on a China Eastern Airlines airbus whilst it was taxiing to the terminal.
• Both Navan and Vibe announce launches of Model Context Protocol servers that enable functionality through users' preferred AI environments.
• BCD Travel invests in Amgine with a specific focus on group booking flow automation.
• Ethiopian Airlines reports $4.5 BILLION in revenue in 6 months, a 14% rise from the previous period.

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