Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Released Friday, 8th August 2025
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Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Linking the Travel Industry | Australian OTA Webjet Pays $9M in Penalties

Friday, 8th August 2025
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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 - 

  • Australian OTA Webjet will pay $9 million in penalties after admitting to making false or misleading statements between 2018-2023, when it advertised airfares that excluded compulsory fees.
  • The U.S. Department of Justice drops their anti-trust investigation into the proposed American Express Global Business Travel / CWT merger.
  • The UK air traffic control service experiences a system failure, causing major disruption.
  • In one of the most engaged posts of the week, Felix Shpilman is skeptical about AI's ability to book travel in this post.
  • A runner-up for most engaged post also related to AI, where Jeff Klee asks if he should thank the AI bots for their service.
  • Extra Stories

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