Linking the Travel Industry | Did AmexGBT get a Great Deal on CWT?

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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 real audience members. You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com and registering for the next event.
Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah.
Stories covered on this session include -

• The big news of the week is the proposed acquisition of CWT by American Express Global Business Travel for $570m.
• SAS - Scandinavian Airlines will increase their EDIFACT distribution fees and remove lower fares from this channel as of 1 April.
• It seems the European Commission is not going to rubberstamp the proposed Lufthansa & ITA Airways deal without further scrutiny.
• Boeing fires it's CEO Dave Calhoun along with two other senior board members. Erika Armstrong asks a valid question about Dave's replacement, Stephanie Pope.
• UK based TMC for the entertainment industry TAG makes yet another US expansion by acquiring Travel Stars Inc. in Nashville, which manages travel for country music artists and luxury travel for wealthy individuals.
• NDC aggregator AirGateway lands a deal with the TMC network GlobalStar Travel Management.
• Extra Story - Breeze Airways partners with Priceline

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