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:
- The popular airline seat map provider Seatguru shuts down.
- AirAsia might make Bahrain their Middle East hub.
- Travelperk becomes Perk.
- Ryanair has increased its profits by 42% to $2.92 billion in the first half of its financial year 2026 and grew their 12-month passenger traffic to 204.8 million, a new record.
- Not to be outdone, Emirates reported a profit before tax of US$ 3.1 billion and revenue of US$ 17.9 billion for the first six months of this year.
- Qatar Airways steps away from their investment with Cathay Pacific, with the announcement that CX will buy back QR's 9.6% shareholding for around US$897m.
- 40 major US airports are to have their flight capacity reduced by 10% under instructions from the FAA, as a result of the ongoing government shutdown. There are also reports surfacing of major delays at security lines of many airports in the US.
- International Airlines Group (IAG) signs a deal with Starlink to provide high-speed internet access across British Airways, Iberia, Vueling Airlines and LEVEL Airlines.
- The most engaged post of the week belongs to Jake Zelman, where he talks about the heartbreaking message from the Honolulu ATC tower to another UPS flight.
- Extra Stories
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