Business Travel 360 Linking the Travel Industry | Heathrow Airports' Parking Profits Exposed
Jul 18, 2025
19:40
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 -
- Clive Wratten exposes the true income Heathrow makes from parking charges, at a whopping £171m. He also explains to us why it failed to deliver any of the benefits propagated by the airport.
- In a move heavily criticised by airlines and IATA, 8 countries propose an ‘aviation solidarity coalition on premium flyers’, a tax on premium cabin travellers.
- Ethiopian Airlines plans to launch an Addis Ababa to Australia route.
- CWT adds a natural language query tool to their travel data analytics platform, which they claim “mirrors a real conversation” by allowing follow-up questions to give clients a deeper insight into their travel data.
- Pieter Elbers calls out Europe's obsession with green issues, saying it was hurting its airlines and holding back economies.
- The EU announces plans to spend €2.8 billion on 94 transport projects, with rail projects accounting for 77 per cent of the total spending.
- Virgin Atlantic announces major overhauls on it's products including fully refurbishing their Boeing 787 aircraft, with the end of 'coffin class', in a move that will see the number of economy seats slashed.
- Congratulations to Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline, on marking their 40th anniversary since their first-ever flight.
- Extra Stories
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