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Welcome to the What’s Up in Business Travel podcast for Week 8 of 2026. This weekly podcast is great for those who need to know what’s happening in the world of business travel - in under 15 minutes.

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

• United & JetBlue expand Blue Sky partnership
• North American On-Time performance rebounds
• Air Canada reports record Q4 and strong year results
• Expedia Group leans into AI and direct booking growth
• United to cquire O’Hare Gates from Spirit
• Europe’s Entry/Exit System causes airport delays
• Air Transat exits U.S. market due to demand drop
• Navan Study highlights transparency challenges
• Ixigo launches airport cab service
• Southwest rolls out Starlink WiFi
• Uber expands Autonomous Vehicle rollout
• Amadeus to decommission self-service developer portal
• OTAs gain share in Tours and Activities
• Sabre and WestJet extend technology partnership

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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:

• Wizz Air will start offering flights to the US, after it became known they have applied for rights to fly there but later in the week their CFO Ian Malin clarified their application related to providing charter flights for the World Cup.
• Spanish OTA DESTINIA acquired Netflights and Travel Republic, both much larger companies, from dnata.
• Emirates plans to hire 20,000 staff in the next 5 years.
• Property management company GuestReady has acquired Lightbooking and its 200 units in the Canary Islands for 1.2 million euros.
• Navan will shut down the Reed & Mackay brand and transition all customers to Navan.

You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.com

This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!

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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:

• Avis Budget Group will close their Zipcar car sharing service in the UK.
• Singapore Airlines, who already holds a 25% stake in Air India Limited, signs a broader agreement between the two airlines to work even more closely together.
• Pilots and unions come out very critical about the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) fine of only US$2.4m to IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) for their recent disruptions to flights.
• Spain’s competition authority imposes fines on four TMCs for allegedly colluding in public-sector tenders for corporate travel services.
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines starts offering free wi-fi on their inter-European flights. Marjan Rintel, CEO at KLM, talks about that.
• The hospitality property management system Mews raises US$300m, giving them a $2.5b evaluation.
• Extra Stories

You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.com

This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!

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