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 United Airlines flight diverted to Washington Dulles Airport on 3 April after galley oven smoke filled the cabin, marking the fifth such incident among major U.S. carriers in 2025.
- A wing collision at Washington's Reagan Airport on 10 April involving an American Airlines flight. This marks the third similar event at this airport since 2022.
- A sight seeing helicopter crashes in the Hudson River in New York, with six fatalities. Caution: distressing video in this link.
- Ted Christie steps down from his role as Spirit Airlines CEO.
- Carmen S. writes about American Airlines's move to bring airport service staff numbers down this summer, instead of up.
- US airlines Republic Airways and the holding company of Mesa Airlines, Inc. are combining in an all-stock deal.
- Greek air traffic controllers went on strike on 9 April, causing substantial flight cancellations in the area.
- India and China are in talks to resume direct flights between them.
- Virgin Australia reveals they have identified more than 60,000 customers who may have been overcharged over a five year period, and that they will be refunding those affected.
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