[30 min] The Travel Team, a travel management company owned by the Rich Products Corporation, services hundreds of commercial clients. Its President Jean Covelli invited BTC to conduct a Workshop for the firm's senior sales, marketing, technology, finance and conference management staff. This show captures the Workshop debrief.
[30 min] This week BTC Radio will speak with Scott McCartney, Travel Editor for The Wall Street Journal and look at recent initiatives by major U.S. network airlines to simplify airfare structures; how low-cost airlines will likely respond; what impact the new US Airways might have on advancing airfare structure simplification; the ongoing use of yield management; and much more.
[40 min] This week BTC Radio will look at the coming explosion in fragmentation of travel content; the direction of traditional and Internet travel management company transaction fees; and whether mid-size travel management companies can remain viable in the marketplace.
[40 min] This week we will look at the potential worldwide flu pandemic from the point of view of the travel industry. We will discuss the H5N1 bird flu from several angles designed to help the listener decide how to approach pandemic preparedness in his/her organization. Guests include Tim Appenzeller, Senior Editor, National Geographic, Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Katherine Andrus, Assistant General Counsel, Air Transport Association and Tim Daniel, Group Vice President, International SOS.
[40 min] During this show we will look at the jet fuel crisis gripping an already besieged U.S. airline industry. Our special guest for the whole show will be Vaughn Cordle, Chief Analyst at Airline Forecasts. We will discuss the historic price of oil, what crack spreads are, common hedging strategies and where jet fuel prices are likely to go from here.
[40 min] In this Special Edition of BTC Radio, we look at the problems of airline ownership of computer reservations systems (CRSs) in Europe, and proposed deregulation of the industry. Guests include Stephen Hogan, Deputy Director, Coalition for Fair Access to Reservations in Europe (C-FARE) and Bruce Charendoff, SVP, Sabre Holidings.
[40 min] This week we focus on the impact of airline bankruptcies on low-cost carriers, the customer and the structure of the industry with guests Bob Fornaro, President & COO, AirTran Airways, Jean Covelli, Travel Administrator, Rich Products Corporation, Terry Trippler, Airline Expert, CheapSeats.com, Paul M. Ruden, Esq., CTC, SVP, Legal & Industry Affairs, ASTA and Nawal K. Taneja, Chairman, Aviation Department, The Ohio State University.
[40 min] This edition of BTC Radio, Talking Business Travel, will focus on the impacts of airline bankruptcies on customers, competitors and the structure of the industry. Guests include former American Airlines' Chairman and CEO, Robert Crandall, Vaughn Cordle, Chief Analyst at Airline Forecasts, Tom Belden of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Alexandra Marks of the Christian Science Monitor and Joe Sharkey of the New York Times.
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