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Welcome to What’s Up in Business Travel for Week 50 of 2025. This is a weekly podcast where we update you on what’s up this week in the world of business travel. This podcast is great for those who need to know what’s happening all in under 15 minutes.

On this week's podcast, we covered the following stories:

• Airline Industry tops $1T in 2025
• US proposes social media inspections on visitors
• Amex tops in J.D. Power Airport Lounge study
• DOT waives Southwest's fine
• Airlines unlikely to hit 2030 SAF goals
• CTM to be dropped from ASX 200 Index
• Government mandates cuts for Indigo
• United & Delta take stakes in Republic
• Pegasus Airlines acquires two Czech airlines
• Turkish & South African agree to codeshare
• South African Airways enters codeshare with TAAG
• JetBlue opens first-ever lounge
• Uber announces plans for an airport kiosk
• Southwest pursuing network of airport lounges
• Korean Air to add Starlink Wi-Fi
• Trainline adds disruption features

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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:

• Airbus warning causes global disruptions
• Aer Lingus is considering closing it's Manchester base.
• The BTA welcomes the UK government's decision to freeze rail fares in England next year.
• Two more airlines cease to operate this week:
  ❌ Latvia'a SmartLynx Airlines Ltd
  ❌ Anchorage based New Pacific Airlines
• American Express Global Business Travel is exploring the possibility of a sale.
• The Venezuelan government revokes the operating licenses of six major international airlines.
• Ryanair shuts down their Prime membership after it costs them more than they earned from it.
• The most engaged post of the week is by Dennis Schaal about Capital One wanting to acquire the software that Hopper uses to power Capital One Travel, and to then expand their travel offering.
• Extra Stories

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Welcome to The BTA Podcast. In these podcasts we will endeavour to share our thoughts, concerns, optimism and build those all-important human connections with our Partners, Members and Guests.

In this episode, Clive and Andrew dive into several key developments shaping UK travel and mobility. They break down how the new Visitor Levy will be used to fund infrastructure improvements and discuss the UK government's sweeping rail project freeze and its implications. The hosts also recap insights from the recent Mobility Conference and share early details about the upcoming Spring Conference, including when and where it will be held. And, of course, Clive weighs in on one of his favourite recurring topics—the ever-controversial drop-off charges at Heathrow.

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This podcast was created by The BTA and edited & distributed by BusinessTravel360. For more information about The BTA visit TheBTA.org.uk

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