Linking the Travel Industry | Sabre Sells Hospitality Business & Gray Dawes selects Sabre as Exclusive GDS

Sabre Corporation sells it's hospitality business unit to asset firm TPG for $1.1b.

... and Gray Dawes Travel announce they have selected Sabre as their single global GDS provider.

There's been a 40% increase in issues relating to pax electronic devices impacting flights, the latest being the diversion of a Lufthansa A380 due to an iPad stuck in a seat.

Revolut is taking on American Express with plans for a rewards card of their own.

Five Brand USA board members get removed from their posts.

Uniglobe Travel International LP expand their footprint in a deal with ITP - International Travel Partnership | Hickory.

The African Space Agency is officially inaugurated.

American Airlines are suing JetBlue for $1M

...whilst rumours about a United Airlines / JetBlue partnership emerge.

Lufthansa will stop on-board physical duty free sales on their long-haul flights.

Virgin Atlantic, Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines all announce they will not return to Tel Aviv.