Linking the Travel Industry | Did the Elliott Investment Management Achieve What it Wanted?

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 -

•  Air Canada faces a potential shut down as it can't reach an agreement with their pilots union.
• Wouter Dewulf provides us with a fantastic infographic on the current Boeing and Airbus order backlogs.
• Elliott Investment Management L.P. finally achieves some of what it wanted at Southwest Airlines with the news that six board members are leaving, whilst Bob Jordan stays, for now.
• The Vistara and Air India Limited merge becomes real with the last bookings on Vistara made on 3 September.
• Kenyan aviation workers are on strike over the government’s plan to lease the country’s main airport to Indian firm Adani Group for 30 years, and CNN's Larry Madowo shows us what that means for queues at NBO's airport. 
• Lufthansa's investment hunger is not over, as it is reported they are interested in a piece of Air Baltic ahead of their IPO.
• IranAir is set to be banned from EU airspace soon.
• A Delta Air Lines A350 pushing back on the tarmac at Atlanta airport collides with an Endeavor Air CRJ900, ripping it's tailfin off.
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