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If you were looking for a reason to get active for 30 days, how does a trip to Amsterdam sound? KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Cape Town Magazine have teamed up to bring you the exciting Active Gets You to Amsterdam campaign. Participants stand a chance to win a trip to Amsterdam or the staycation of their dreams... All you need to do is commit to your fitness from the 30th of January to the 28th of February 2025. The challenge celebrates health, activity, and community. Joonji Mdyologo from the Cape Town Magazine team joins us on the line now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the 27th and 28th of November, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence invited MTD magazine to the official opening of its new Experience Centre in Holland. Located at the Brainport Industries Campus in the Northwest of Eindhoven, the two-day event was an opportunity to tour the new campus and participate in insightful presentations that demonstrated how Hexagon is driving innovation and, as a result, developing successful industrial partnerships. Eindhoven is responsible for the Philishave, the automatic gearbox, the cassette tape and the compact disc. To foster this culture of innovation for future generations, the Dutch government funded the Brainport Industries Campus, which broke ground in 2017. At around 100,000sq/m, the innovation centre is virtually fully subscribed, and that is why construction of a 225,000sq/m phase two on the 17-hectare site will commence this year. With dozens of high-tech businesses collaborating at the campus, Hexagon is alongside cutting-edge companies with brands like Siemens and Meta (Facebook), just a few located at the facility. MTD magazine attended and the itinerary for the innovation extravaganza promised an exciting lineup. The event started with a welcome from Jan Klingen, Vice President EMEA North, and Eric Veurink, Brainport Industries Campus Director, and a facility tour. As expected with a Hexagon LIVE event, the breadth and depth of technology and insights were so expansive that delegates could choose the most relevant content for their business. Exemplifying this was one of the first panel discussions on the ‘Future of Mobility in Aerospace and Automotive', hosted by Hexagon Senior Director for Industry Solutions, Johannes Mann, who was joined by speakers Rob van Loon, Additive Manufacturing Manager at KMWE and Thom Grobben, the Vice President of the Technology Hub at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The discussion flowed through the challenges of accelerating innovation and agility in the automotive sector to deliver the next generation of smart, connected vehicles. This conversation then moved on to the aerospace industry's challenges in redefining aircraft architecture and propulsion systems to become more sustainable. Other prominent seminars discussed ‘The challenges in production and collaboration', ‘Extending asset lifecycles and improving productivity with HxGN EAM', ‘Surfing the future now' and ‘Innovation beyond silos: Transforming Manufacturing through connectivity, collaboration, and Cloud/AI'. There was a lot more on show, with panel discussions, presentations, workshops and roundtable debates encompassing every industry sector. Nowhere was this more prominent than in Morgan Maia's presentation, the Partnership Manager at Oracle Red Bull Racing. Hexagon has partnered with the F1 team since its inception. Flying in from the F1 Teams' weekend win in Las Vegas, Morgan discussed how Hexagon supports the team in streamlining performance by ensuring compliance with FIA regulations, precision manufacturing, and ensuring the team ‘gets it right first time'. More than just a soundbite, Mike Hughes, Head of Quality Assurance and Manufacturing Engineering at Oracle Red Bull Racing, qualified the support of Hexagon with a statement: “With Hexagon's help, we've managed to reduce our faults by 50% over the last two years.” Morgan's presentation alluded to how Hexagon is involved throughout the process chain, from 3D CAD modelling and CFD simulations in the virtual wind tunnel to simulation and physical wind tunnel testing. With over one million components handled throughout the season, Oracle Red Bull Racing combines exceptional hardware with efficient software and digital twins to deliver rapid inspection rates. The team has four QA departments encompassing mechanical, external, composites, and race support. They all utilise Hexagon tools, from CAM software to 3D scanners, laser trackers, portable measuring arms and CMMs. The Leica AT960 scanner is a core element of the trackside equipment that improves accuracy and holistic measurement. Its custom orientation enables measurement from different perspectives. For legality checks, Oracle Red Bull Racing uses the AS1 scanner to scan the floor, front, and rear wings to extract key points of the car for performance set-up. With the arrival of Red Bull's first road car, the RB17, and the opening of its 5,000sq/ft powertrain manufacturing site in Milton Keynes, Red Bull's number of components produced is set to expand significantly, as will its relationship with Hexagon. The F1 car continually undergoes design cycles that follow the same structured path. With up to 100 projects in-cycle at any time, around 1,000 design cycles are completed yearly. It starts with developing a 3D CAD model and the subsequent digital twin, which is the foundation block for everything that comes after. With CFD, prototypes and a whole raft of processes before the team gets to a finished car, Morgan said: “When you work on a car in the factory and then take it to the track, if there is an issue in manufacturing – it's too late to do anything about it. We must be sure the car is 100% correct before shipping it. That is why we need Hexagon: to ensure that everything leaving the factory is perfect for when it arrives at the track. We have thousands of parts that need to fit together perfectly. We work to the micron. It's precision you would see in a high-end watch – but not typically in a 5m long vehicle.” A presentation on Hexagon's Nexus suite by Stephen Graham, Executive Vice President and GM of Nexus at Hexagon, followed this. Stephen explained: “Nexus is our cloud-based manufacturing platform. We initially conceived it to solve an internal problem. We have acquired over 150 companies in more than 25 years, which has helped us build this portfolio of technologies throughout the product life-cycle. Our challenge is a large portfolio of technology solutions that were never really intended to work together. We wanted to offer our customers a solution to join the dots and bring the next level of value with the technologies all being under one roof. Nexus was conceived to solve this problem of connectivity. As soon as we took the proposition to our customers, we found they had the same problem. Over decades, they had purchased different technologies to solve different problems.” “Nexus directly solves that problem, and what we have found in the last few months is an ability to connect to different technologies from different vendors - it doesn't just have to be Hexagon products. Since starting development, we have found that businesses are structured very hierarchically, with different disciplines arranged in different silos. The whole thing is very process-driven, and as we try to push the boundaries of manufacturing, this becomes a barrier to succeeding. The need to drive collaboration horizontally across an organisation is coming to the fore as a challenge that needs to be faced.” To demonstrate this, Stephen provided a slide show showing a reverse-engineered workflow using 10 products from Hexagon that facilitate different elements of a product's lifecycle. The demonstration alluded to new cloud-native apps, technologies and solutions connected to products in the portfolio for decades, such as PC-DMIS. Nexus creates an end-to-end solution that connects the dots. Stephen added: “Once these collaborative workflows have been strung together, engineers can work collaboratively. This provides the opportunity to bring automated and AI technologies into the workflow as automated collaborators in the workflow. A great example of this is ProPlanAI, which we just launched. This large NAPA language model provides precise engineering answers for CAM engineers who may be programming CNC machines. It automatically collates data and generates a G-Code to drive machines on the shop floor. This gives engineers superpowers to drive productivity to the next level.” Hexagon claims that ProPlan AI cuts the time to program machine tools by 75%. The new AI technology enables machine shops to achieve operational excellence at scale, powered by Microsoft Azure services built into Hexagon's cloud-based Nexus connectivity platform. Available in Q1 2025, ProPlanAI will ‘learn' from the data created by a company's CAM programmers. This will enable manufacturers to automatically explore existing programming information to predict ideal outcomes tailored to a company's preferences, production capabilities, and needs. ProPlanAI will continuously learn and adapt, ensuring programs are as efficient and productive as possible. ProPlanAI can be trained with a company's institutional knowledge to ensure machines can be quickly and efficiently programmed to their quality standards. Additionally, a Hexagon Copilot provides suggested pathways to advise on best practices without leaving their CAM software. The innovation has been developed in collaboration with Microsoft, and Ygal Levy, the EMEA Manufacturing Managing Director at Microsoft, discussed the company's strategic partnership with Hexagon in greater detail during an afternoon presentation on the ‘Transformation of manufacturing through Connectivity, Collaboration and Cloud/AI'. Clare Barclay, President of Enterprise and Industry at Microsoft EMEA, said: “Microsoft's collaboration with Hexagon is driven by a shared belief that we can transform manufacturing productivity. It's rewarding for us to see how the AI capabilities provided by Azure are empowering CNC programmers with productivity-boosting automation while helping new users upskill faster. This is exactly the sort of transformation AI can bring to the industry, and we are excited to see Hexagon apply its manufacturing expertise to transform workplace productivity.” Verifying the Solution Just over a year ago, MTD magazine visited RODIN Machining. A few miles north of Amsterdam, the start-up company set out to develop an autonomous factory. Incorporating FASTEMS automation, robot-loaded Mazak machines, and integrated innovations that made the mind boggle, RODIN has been a beta-test customer, putting ProPlanAI through its paces before market introduction. Paul Mooij, Director of Digital at RODIN Machining, said: “Machine tool programming is complicated to automate and requires experience. ProPlanAI is exciting because we can leverage our human capital for greater machine utilisation. Our team can program machines in a fraction of the time by applying their valued skills in supervising ProPlanAI suggestions and finalising the programme specifics.”  Paul added: “We have built an autonomous factory but are limited by the engineering input we can put into it. This boils down to a race for talent, and we all know it isn't easy to get good people. We have been working with Hexagon on the development of ProPlanAI, looking at how can we fill it with our data and train it with our models, our machines, tools and our way of working - providing a suggestion of how the model thinks our way of working should be. We can then position our engineer to supervise and undertake ‘prompt engineering'. ProPlanAI is very powerful and provides the right context for the features, model, machines, and tooling available. Using the given context, it then decides, ‘I think you should use these processes for this machining operation''.” “This has become powerful, and we are progressing rapidly to make big savings. We are leveraging our human capital to achieve more by using AI to provide suggestions. Then, our engineers decide whether to accept the suggestion and proceed or refine the process. For example, we may have a 2D PDF drawing that needs to meet specific tolerances, and ProPlanAI may not know this – and this is the experience we can add to the system. It's been a fantastic collaboration, and the system continually evolves.” Discussing the current situation, Paul told MTD magazine: “Our engineers will consider how they approach a job and create the CAM file in Esprit. We then feed our models to our developers. Over the last 18 months, we have been feeding the data to ProPlan AI, which uses our approach, machining strategies, cutting tools, machines, characteristics and experience. ProPlan AI creates suggestions for the next job and pre-populates our program, so our engineers are validating and refining the suggestions to meet our specifications. It amplifies the output of our staff.” “For example, if we have an aluminium job that needs a threaded hole with a chamfer, we would have a unique way of doing that with our machines and tools in our CAM files. Based on those patterns, the model learns our strategies and recognises the parameters for a threaded hole in aluminium, the feeds, speeds and so on.” Looking at benefits during testing, Paul adds: “It is amplifying our output and boosting our efficiency. At present, the savings are impressive. We continuously add data to our ProPlanAI suite, so the savings will cascade into ever greater efficiencies as we progress.”

If you work across time zones, borders, and cultures, this is the show for you. Welcome to the international business podcast. Today, we discuss expats. To learn more about each guest joining Leonardo today, please check below. If you're looking for more, check out the subscriber-only feed. For the cost of one cup of coffee per month, you'll gain access to the full archive and bonus subscriber-only episodes, in addition to regular episodes. ⁠Subscribe here⁠. Expats are crucial for global companies as they bring diverse perspectives, specialized skills, and cultural insights that enhance international operations.   ⁠Gabor Holch⁠ is an intercultural leadership coach, consultant, speaker and author specialised in East-West executive assignments and business relations. He supports corporate executives and public-sector leaders in succeeding across national and cultural boundaries instead of getting lost in translation. An expat since age 4, he transitioned from diplomacy to consulting, moved to China in 2002 and became China's first foreigner granted a Certified Management Consultant degree in Mandarin Chinese. In 2005 he founded Campanile Management Consulting. He has advised, coached and trained leaders for 100+ clients in 25+ countries through his own firm, partner consultancies and the business academies of half a dozen multinational corporations. He has spoken at conferences and corporate events and lectured at business programmes in Europe and Asia. He currently splits his time between his Shanghai base and international jobs, mainly in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. He has written three books and published about a hundred articles. His latest book, Dragon Suit: The golden age of expatriate executives in China, was published by Business Expert Press, New York, in summer 2023.   ⁠Chis Smit⁠, has become a role model for many individuals throughout his career. Cultural Diversity and Company Culture can be greatly misunderstood within an industry that is continuously evolving and Chris is looking to spread awareness in these areas to help implement change. When booked as a speaker, Chris focuses on topics such as Intercultural Management, Leadership, Management, and Marketing. In 1987, Chris attended the University of Amsterdam where he was awarded a master's degree in Organisational Psychology. This was then followed by him gaining a Business Consultant role at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Dedicated to making a difference, Chris has now become a Managing Partner of Culture Matters. His beliefs not only benefit himself but thousands of people throughout the business world which is why he has been able to build a successful career. Chris hosted the TEDx Talk ‘⁠Humor and culture in international business⁠ in 2014. He is also the author of the two books, ‘How to Overcome Cultural Differences in Business and ‘Uncertainty Avoidance in International Business which have both become very popular.   ⁠Shelley Doyle⁠ is a pioneering Social Wealth Strategist and a Master's student at Royal Roads University, specializing in enhancing the social wellbeing of remote and hybrid leaders. With over 20 years in communications, Shelley has pivoted to empower corporate teams, remote leaders, and founders to foster meaningful connections and sustain their social wellbeing in our digital age. Through her innovative workshops and talks, Shelley merges cutting-edge research with her global experiences, equipping leaders with tools and strategies to reconnect, enabling them to feel deeply trusted, connected, and supported. Shelley's work is widely celebrated for its transformative effects, making her an invaluable resource for leaders and founders. Shelley is on a mission to prove that distance does not have to define the depth of our connection. Join Shelley's ⁠newsletter community⁠ Check out her ⁠Podcast⁠   If you work across time zones, borders, and cultures, connect with ⁠Leonardo Marra⁠ and come on the show to share your story. LinkedIn Newsletter

Send us a textLinking 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.comYour Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash ShravahStories covered on this session include -KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is facing a "painful" €450m restructuring.The European Commission has launched a public consultation into a new EU Flight Emissions Label, which aims to provide airline passengers with “trustworthy and harmonized environmental information” about flights.SkyTeam expands on their air/rail intermodal aspirations by agreeing on an intermodal deal with Trenitalia.PLAY airlines has expanded its network by adding easyJet to the PLAY Connect platform, powered by Dohop's alternative interlining technology.Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry into Ryanair's use of facial recognition technology as part of its online customer verification process for bookings from third parties.The industry mourns the loss of a legend - the founder of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, who passed away this week.You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Alexa or your favorite podcast player.This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show

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 -Brussels Airlines is doing an interesting promotion for their new Nairobi routing when in starts later this year by offering free chauffeur transfers to inbound pax to many destinations in the area, irrespective of class of travel.Qatar Airways' new CEO is bringing First Class back to the airline. CWT forms a partnership with carbon management company SQUAKE to "support the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the business travel industry, at scale." In a related development, Agentivity and Trees4Travel enhance their partnership with an automated data feed from a client's TMC, to make carbon managment for corporate buyers even easier.SAS - Scandinavian Airlines gets US court approval for their chapter 11 restructuring plan.Lufthansa Group reveals the stats around the uptake of their green fares across the group's airlines.a Dutch court rules that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines misled customers about their sustainability claims.Michael O'Leary from Ryanair publicly condemns Boeing. You can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Alexa or your favorite podcast player.This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show

Asteris Apostolidis is a Lead for Technical Innovation at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, where he oversees the implementation and expansion of cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, and Autonomous Operations across various company departments. His extensive technical knowledge spans the fields of aeronautics and aviation, acquired through roles at academic institutions, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers in four different nations. On The Menu: 1. Significance of balancing innovation with operational demands. 2. Emerging technologies in aviation. 3. The complexity of certifying AI-based technologies in aviation and building trust in autonomous systems. 4. AI's pivotal contribution to realizing sustainability objectives within the aviation industry. 5. Obstacles associated with expanding the scope of electric and hydrogen aviation. 6. The vital role of Digital twins and simulation methods in aviation operations. #AsterisApostolidis #MarketerOfTheMonth #Aviation #RoyalDutchAirlines #Podcastoftheday #MarketingPodcast #TechInnovation

The airline industry has seen a steady recovery from Covid-19. According to data from the international Air Transport Association, total traffic reached over 90% of pre-pandemic levels this year as demand for air travel picked up. Business Day TV spoke to Marjan Rintel, the CEO of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, for more insight.

What do a young expat in Paris, the chain of White Lotus hotels, a wizard in England, a group of brunch-loving BFFs in New York and a certain iron throne all have in common? They're all part of monster-hit movies and TV shows that have spawned wanderlust for travelers, a trend that appears to be accelerating perhaps due to the sheer volume of content available for streaming during the pandemic. In this episode, senior editor Nicole Edenedo, Simon Hudson, a professor of tourism at the University of South Carolina and Lily Szemplinski, owner of Passport Stamps Travel, come together to discuss this trend and how movies and TV shows drive client bookings. This episode is the last in our summer series featuring some of our most memorable recent episodes. This episode was initially published June 5, 2023, and has been edited for length and clarity.   New episodes of the Folo start Monday, Sept. 18! Episode sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines https://www.afkl.com Related links: Set Jetting puts the spotlight on destinations https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Set-jetting-puts-spotlight-on-destinations The Folo podcast: Advisors talk about film-crew travel https://www.travelweekly.com/Podcasts/Folo/lights-camera-travel From the archives: Tabloid tourism https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Tour-Operators/Tabloid-tourism  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For a long time we've suspected, due to strong anecdotal evidence, that more travel agencies than not were charging their clients for their services, much like professional service-oriented businesses do, like financial advisors, accountants or consultants. Earlier this year we put data to the trend. And the results might surprise you. In this episode, host Rebecca Tobin and retail editor Jamie Biesiada talk with Jamie Jones, the president of Whirlaway Travel, who will share her perspective. We'll look at some of the many types of fees. And we'll do a lightning-round-style response to some of the reasons why advisors don't charge. This episode is part of our summer series featuring some of our most memorable recent episodes. This episode was originally published April 24 and has been edited for length and clarity. Episode sponsor This episode is sponsored by Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines https://www.afkl.biz Related links: Fees: by the numbers cover story https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Fees-by-the-numbers  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mabrian ha analizado el comportamiento y las preferencias espontáneas de los viajeros a nivel mundial utilizando la Escucha Activa. La conclusión principal que se desprende del estudio, es que las actividades o motivaciones experienciales están sustituyendo a las motivaciones de viaje convencionales. Por «experienciales», se consideran actividades relacionadas con el bienestar, el estilo de vida activo, la naturaleza, y la gastronomía. Las reservas de asientos en vuelos internacionales hacia España para septiembre superan los 10,6 millones, un 10,1% más en comparación con 2022 y muy cerca del nivel prepandemia, cuando se alcanzaron los 10,9 millones de asientos, según datos difundidos por Turespaña. La balanza por cuenta corriente, que mide los ingresos y pagos al exterior por intercambio de mercancías, servicios, rentas y transferencias, registró un superávit de 19.000 millones de euros en el primer semestre del año, frente al déficit de 2.000 millones del mismo periodo de 2022, según los datos publicados por el Banco de España. La Unión de Profesionales y Trabajadores Autónomos (UPTA) denuncia que 3 de cada 10 alojamientos vacacionales en verano son viviendas particulares. Según dicen, este fenómeno supone “una amenaza para uno de los pilares fundamentales de nuestra nación, afectando en gran medida a las actividades económicas relacionadas con la hostelería de pequeña escala”. Edreams Odigeo, en el primer trimestre de su último año fiscal, correspondiente a los tres meses comprendidos entre abril y junio de 2023, obtuvo un beneficio neto de 4,1 millones de euros frente a las pérdidas de 13,9 millones de euros registradas en el mismo período de 2022. El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona dará un paso más para contener uno de los puntos más masificados de la ciudad en los últimos años, los búnkeres del Carmel. Después del proyecto del vallado nocturno una posibilidad es que se materialice un control de accesos con entrada: “Esto será el Parc Güell 2.0″, han afirmado algunos de los vecinos. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines y la asociación comercial Electric Flying Connection (EFC) ofrecieron, a un grupo de invitados de KLM, una demostración única sobre el futuro de la aviación. Los dieciocho invitados recibieron una demostración de vuelo eléctrico a bordo de un Pipistrel Velis Electro, supervisada por instructores de la E-Flight Academy.

On today's episode of Masters of MAX, it's time to shake things up a bit and look at the world of mobile from a different angle. We've heard from marketing leaders as they share the brand power apps bring to the table, but we want to dig deeper into the app design itself. Joining to help us uncover more of the behind the scenes is Hao Xie, Senior App Designer at Booking.com, one of the world's largest travel marketplaces, mediating between hotels, guesthouses, vacation rentals, and their guests. Hao has been with Booking.com for over a year, being brought on to build the native app experience for the Attraction offering.Hear as Hao and Tom discuss how crucial accessibility is to the mobile experience as it opens the door to millions of users who otherwise would be shut out. An often overlooked aspect of the design process, accessibility impacts everyone, not just those of differing abilities. Hao provides real world examples of inclusive features the team at Booking.com employs to create a more holistic experience. Additionally, Hao shares a few stories from his time at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He describes how he and his team were able to get  live customer feedback immediately after piloting new features. How? Because they left their desks and asked passengers for their opinions as they waited to board their flights. —Guest BioHao Xie is an app design enthusiast with experience in diverse industries including agency, global brands, and tech. He has led transformative design projects for Air France's and KLM's apps, improved the core funnel of the Adidas consumer app with measurable results, and is now creating the foundation of a native app experience for attractions at Booking.com from scratch. —Guest Quote"Accessibility matters in so many, many ways. Especially at Booking.com, our brand mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And there's a word in this sentence, which is everyone. And by everyone, it should literally mean everyone." – Hao Xie—Time Stamps *(01:08) Hao's Background*(03:03) How to merge two apps together seamlessly*(08:15) Testing prototypes in real time with real people*(11:07) Going from physical to digital experiences*(13:08) Creating a native app *(16:21) The importance of experimentation*(17:11) Accessibility at Booking.com*(19:51) How to focus deeply on your consumers' experience*(23:14) Rapid Fire Questions—LinksConnect with Hao Xie on LinkedInConnect with Tom Butta on LinkedInCheck out the Airship WebsiteExperience the world with Booking.com

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 -An eagle-eyed pilot from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines spots a growing wildfire from the cockpit, alerts the authorities and prevents a major fire.The next European airport to face potential flight bans is Brussels airport, where IATA is putting up a fight against a proposed night flight ban.Spotnana made two big announcements this week:- Their integration with Amtrak.- Their ability to offer the use of unused coupons in both an EDIFACT and NDC environment.Alaska Airlines caused a bit of an investor scare this week when they revealed a lower domestic travel demand.American Airlines match the recent 35%-40% pilot payrise offered by United Airlines recently.When is it fair to charge for a seat selection and when does it become ridiculous?Korean Air release it's own beer - KAL's Lager.

Les deux compagnies aériennes associées, Air France et KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, ont décidé de proposer à leurs passagers une nouvelle formule de classe affaires.Baptisée "Light", elle limite, comme son nom le laisse supposer, l'étendue de ses services. En effet, les voyageurs empruntant cette nouvelle classe affaires ne pourront plus mettre en soute gratuitement qu'un seul bagage, au poids limité. Toute valise supplémentaire entraînera désormais le paiement d'un supplément.Par ailleurs, il ne sera plus possible de modifier gratuitement la réservation. Et, dans ce cas, le surcoût est loin d'être négligeable, puisqu'il faudra débourser 300 euros pour apporter un changement à sa réservation. Quant aux voyageurs qui annuleraient leur vol, ils ne seront plus remboursés. Enfin, les passagers de cette classe affaires "Light" ne pourront plus accéder aux salons de l'aéroport.Cette nouvelle option est disponible sur les vols de ces compagnies à destination des pays européens et sur de nombreux vols internationaux.Elle ne permet au voyageur intéressé qu'un gain assez modeste, puisque l'écart de prix n'est que de 100 euros par rapport à une offre standard.En fait, cette nouvelle classe affaires est destinée aux passagers moins exigeants sur les services proposés par les compagnies avant le voyage, mais désireux de profiter de tout le confort possible durant le vol.De ce point de vue, cette classe"Light" leur propose des services de bord comparables à ceux d'une classe "business" classique. Sous ce rapport, ils n'y perdent donc rien.Par ailleurs, cette nouvelle formule n'est pas aussi restrictive qu'elle peut paraître au premier abord. En effet, les programmes de fidélité mis au point par les deux compagnies permettent à certains voyageurs de continuer à profiter de certaines prestations, comme l'accès gratuit aux salons de l'aéroport par exemple.Il faut d'ailleurs noter que le choix de cette classe "Light" n'empêche nullement le passager d'accumuler des points sur ces programmes de fidélité.Il pourrait cependant être tenté par les offres comparables de compagnies concurrentes, qui maintiennent certains avantages, comme l'accès gratuit aux salons. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Les deux compagnies aériennes associées, Air France et KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, ont décidé de proposer à leurs passagers une nouvelle formule de classe affaires. Baptisée "Light", elle limite, comme son nom le laisse supposer, l'étendue de ses services. En effet, les voyageurs empruntant cette nouvelle classe affaires ne pourront plus mettre en soute gratuitement qu'un seul bagage, au poids limité. Toute valise supplémentaire entraînera désormais le paiement d'un supplément. Par ailleurs, il ne sera plus possible de modifier gratuitement la réservation. Et, dans ce cas, le surcoût est loin d'être négligeable, puisqu'il faudra débourser 300 euros pour apporter un changement à sa réservation. Quant aux voyageurs qui annuleraient leur vol, ils ne seront plus remboursés. Enfin, les passagers de cette classe affaires "Light" ne pourront plus accéder aux salons de l'aéroport. Cette nouvelle option est disponible sur les vols de ces compagnies à destination des pays européens et sur de nombreux vols internationaux. Elle ne permet au voyageur intéressé qu'un gain assez modeste, puisque l'écart de prix n'est que de 100 euros par rapport à une offre standard. En fait, cette nouvelle classe affaires est destinée aux passagers moins exigeants sur les services proposés par les compagnies avant le voyage, mais désireux de profiter de tout le confort possible durant le vol. De ce point de vue, cette classe"Light" leur propose des services de bord comparables à ceux d'une classe "business" classique. Sous ce rapport, ils n'y perdent donc rien. Par ailleurs, cette nouvelle formule n'est pas aussi restrictive qu'elle peut paraître au premier abord. En effet, les programmes de fidélité mis au point par les deux compagnies permettent à certains voyageurs de continuer à profiter de certaines prestations, comme l'accès gratuit aux salons de l'aéroport par exemple. Il faut d'ailleurs noter que le choix de cette classe "Light" n'empêche nullement le passager d'accumuler des points sur ces programmes de fidélité. Il pourrait cependant être tenté par les offres comparables de compagnies concurrentes, qui maintiennent certains avantages, comme l'accès gratuit aux salons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 -Jeff Klee joins us to discuss how AmTrav was experiencing the American Airlines changes in distribution.Travelport's private equity owners, Siris Capital Group and Elliott Investment Management L.P. pump an extra $200m into the company. Is the new Lufthansa cabin class offering too complex? In what as seen as a move to capture the growing business travel market in India, Navan acquires Tripeur, an Indian based travel and expense management company.KLM Royal Dutch Airlines wins their court case against the Dutch government's plans to reduce flight capacity out of Schiphol. And a post by Ann Cederhall asking if travel agents and airlines can remain friends or is NDC the divide?

With over 350 agents, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has the largest social media service team in the world. The over 200.000 unique individuals that contact KLM every week via social media are a huge source of feedback and inspiration for the airline that aims to be the most customer-centric European network carrier. They inspired many KLM innovations - from hyper-personalized social ads to automated boarding passes (>50% of digital boarding passes are now sent via Messenger), full travel journeys on voice, and augmented reality (from luggage scan to entertainment). Sharon Geervliet will highlight several recent social innovations, KLM's immensely successful augmented reality luggage scan (the world's first), KLM's Family Update service on Whatsapp (the world's first), and KLM's GIFs (over half a billion impressions without media budget).Check out upcoming DigiMarCon Digital Marketing, Media, and Advertising Conferences & Exhibitions Worldwide at https://digimarcon.com/events/

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Adopts Matterport Digital Twins to Transform Ground Operations and Engage Passengers World's longest running airline uses library of Matterport digital twins to improve operating efficiencies SUNNYVALE, California, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR), the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, today announced that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (“KLM”), part of the Air France-KLM Group and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance with services across 90 European cities and 70 intercontinental destinations, has adopted Matterport to create a digital twin of each type of aircraft in the fleet. KLM is using Matterport to train ground crews and to provide an immersive virtual experience for customers. The global air carrier has received nearly 1 million views of its digital twins from ground crews, flight attendants, pilots, and travelers. “Matterport digital twins have permanently changed the way we train our employees and we have expanded our use of them over time for customer engagement,” said Chris Koomen, Virtual Reality Specialist at KLM. “Digital twins are now integral to our business. We regularly use them for training across our global operations. Cleaning crews work more efficiently, flight attendants learn the layout of an aircraft ahead of time, and pilots reference digital twins during safety checks. With remote access to digital twins, trainees avoid disrupting the maintenance work of an aircraft, enabling our fleet to return to service faster. All of this adds up to performance efficiency.” KLM began using Matterport in 2017, capturing the first digital twin of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to train ground crews on cleaning the aircraft. When crews reduced cleaning time by 30 percent, KLM recognized the potential of Matterport digital twins to streamline training for other departments and utilized Matterport to further capture digital twins of its entire fleet. Today, KLM manages a library of 104 digital twins that have been viewed nearly 1 million times, including multiple versions for each of the 14 types of Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer aircrafts that make up its fleet. Flight attendants utilized Matterport's digital twins to learn where important safety and hospitality items are located such as beverage carts, while an annotated digital twin for ground crews illustrates where service trolleys are stowed. Meanwhile, pilots easily refer to an aircraft's digital twin during a pre-flight safety check if an issue is detected. Equipped with Matterport digital twins, KLM employees do not need to travel to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for training and instead use immersive digital twins. Since virtual trainees no longer interrupt the maintenance work of an aircraft with in-person visits, it helps to get the aircraft to return to service faster and with less downtime. In addition, KLM's digital twins have helped streamline its fleet management. For example, when upgrading the Wi-Fi routers used on a specific aircraft, KLM used the highly accurate data within a digital twin to confirm measurements and optimize the placement of new routers. --- Matterport media release continues in the We Get Around Network Forum (www.WGANForum.com). --- Source: Matterport via Globe Newswire

Ernesto Verdugo helps baby boomers and Gen Xers think and earn like successful YouTubers.   Ernesto is best defined as a Change Catalyst because his interventions create results in record times. His speaking style quickly engages audiences and individuals to change and think differently. His presentations are thought provoking, entertaining, insightful and straight to the point. Participants on his events are always left with a strong urge to take action. He is a master in the art of anticipation. An avid trend hunter ready to identify new opportunities in the horizon for individuals and organizations. Ernesto has been speaking and training since 1994 and has worked with tens of thousands of individuals from over 120 countries in 57 different countries. Simply, Google his name and you'll find among the over 460,000 results, he is listed as the 247th most traveled human being in the universe. He works with a wide range of global organizations and provides them with a competitive edge based on his unique understanding of the world. His intervention success is based in his belief that behavior is an outcome not an input. He understand that to bring an individuals into action you need to change their belief system. And that requires a very different approach. Ernesto's methodology can quickly nudge old habits into new behaviors providing the spark needed to reset the mindset of your organization. Ernesto Verdugo is the 247th most traveled person in the universe. He worked for Renaissance Cruises and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines before becoming a full-time speaker and trainer. He's worked with people from over 120 nationalities in 57 countries. He is a Little League baseball coach a private pilot and a master juggler. He lives with his wife and two kids in the Woodlands, Texas. https://thomsinger.com/podcast/ernesto-verdugo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topic: Airlines targeting post-pandemic ‘revenge travel'   The blow caused to the airline industry by the COVID-19 pandemic has been especially felt by budget airlines, which mostly operate narrow-bodied passenger jets and have therefore been unable to develop a sideline in air freight during the pandemic. According to one academic's analysis, when the outbreak stabilizes, businesses are targeting a trend in so-called “revenge travel.” However, she also hopes that, rather than the pre-pandemic price wars between budget airlines, the consolidation that has taken place during the pandemic will restore healthy competition in the industry. 疫情衝擊航空界，其中廉航受限於機隊多為窄體客機，無法發展貨運，受疫情衝擊更大。學者分析，業者瞄準疫情穩定後的「報復性出遊」，但也希望疫情前廉航削價競爭的情況，能因疫情重整，回歸良性競爭。 According to associate professor Melody Dai of National Cheng Kung University's Department of Transportation and Communication Management Science, costs per flight have not changed during the pandemic, but if carriers are required to implement social-distancing seating plans, leaving empty seats between passengers, this would eat into airlines' profit margins, causing a fresh headache for the industry. Dai says she hopes that budget airlines will manage to survive, since they help stimulate Taiwan's domestic tourism sector as well as the wider economy. 成大交通管理學系副教授戴佐敏說，每航班成本不變、但座位未來若須採間隔座導致收入減少，確實是疫後的難題，希望廉航仍有生存空間，對促進觀光與經濟有正面幫助。 Dai says that choosing to operate flights during the pandemic is a test of airlines' ability to sustain losses, but the crisis may also prove to be a turnaround for the industry. Dai says there are many variables to the pandemic. She says that once the outbreak stabilizes, if the demand for “revenge travel” exceeds supply, this could resolve the pre-pandemic situation of supply exceeding demand, which led to price wars among budget airlines. The consolidation that the pandemic has triggered within the airline industry could bring about a return to healthy competition, says Dai. 戴佐敏認為，選擇在疫情期間開航，考驗航空公司「虧本」的能力，不過危機也有可能是轉機，疫情仍有變數，疫情穩定後的「報復性出遊」若需求大於供給，疫情前廉航供過於求、削價競爭的情況，這次可能因疫情重整，回歸良性競爭。 One industry insider stated that, despite the lockdowns and reduced number of travelers and flights during the pandemic, the industry is bullish about post-pandemic prospects for both freight and passenger travel in the flourishing Asian region. The insider added that a trend in “revenge travel” could cause short-haul routes to become particularly busy. 業者指出，雖然國境仍然封鎖，疫情期間每週班次不多，旅客也非常少，但看好疫情後亞洲旺盛的物流、人流，預估疫情趨緩後將出現「報復性出遊」，亞洲短程航線將會更繁忙。Source article: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2021/09/12/2003764205   Next Article   Topic: Rebranding is beneficial to China Airlines. Here's why   台灣的立法院於7月22日表決通過建議將台灣最大的國際航空公司之一：「中華航空公司」 (China Airlines) 的英文名稱更名。這樣的提議，立即引發了各種疑問：這樣做的成本是否過高？中華航空公司是否會因此喪失航權？ Taiwan's Legislative Yuan voted on Wednesday to work towards renaming China Airlines, one of the national air carriers. Such a proposal immediately prompted various questions: Would doing so be prohibitively expensive? Would the airline lose aviation rights as a result of the act? 航空業的複雜程度超乎想像，故難以提供此細微議題絕對明確的答案。雖然，把台灣的國籍航空「中華航空公司China Airlines」更改英文名字，會有非常大的爭議，但讓我們暫時撇開政治上的兩極化角度，而從商業的角度分析，什麼才是對中華航空公司最有利的。 The airline industry is unimaginably complex, so there is no definite answer to such a nuanced topic. While the issue of renaming Taiwan's national airline is inherently controversial, let us move away from political polarization and analyze what is best for China Airlines, from a business perspective. 品牌重塑的成本 | The Cost of Rebranding 首先，如果中華航空公司想重塑品牌形象，彰顯其隸屬於台灣國籍航空的品牌辨識度，一定會產生相對的成本。 Firstly, if China Airlines were to rebrand itself to reflect a more Taiwanese identity, it is undeniable that the airline would incur costs. 這是因為航空公司的標誌無所不在：從登機櫃檯到貴賓室，甚至是乘客在機上所使用的餐巾紙上都能看見。因此，對於中華航空公司來說，重新彩繪噴漆飛機機身並全面重塑品牌，勢必需要投入相當的資金支出。 This is because airlines logos appear everywhere: from check-in counters, lounges, to even the napkins passengers use onboard. So yes, it would be a significant investment for China Airlines to repaint their planes to rebrand across their network. 但是，考量一家航空公司的將來的利潤及是否賺錢，未來營業收入成長的重要性，和考量成本支出，是一樣重要的。從長遠來看，如果航空公司能夠在未來吸引到比現在更多的乘客，這項品牌重塑計畫就值得。 However, an airline's profitability is as much determined by revenue than it is affected by costs. In the long term, if an airline is able to attract more customers than now, such rebranding efforts would pay off. 更改中華航空公司的英文名稱「China」可解決過往的一些問題。例如，許多英語系國家的人認為「China」一詞帶有負面含義，且他們聽到「China Airlines」時，也無法將其與台灣連結在一起。 Rebranding China Airlines could address previous issues. For example, many people in English-speaking countries believe the word “China” has negative connotations, and they don't associate the airline with Taiwan when they hear about “China” Airlines. 此外，中華航空 (China Airlines) 經常被與中國政府擁有的中國國際航空(Air China)混淆。近年來，因為名字上的混淆，全球大多數人無法區分這兩家航空公司。因此，與中國國際航空相關的飛安意外事故和客服事件，皆損害了台灣國籍航空公司的聲譽。 In addition, China Airlines is often confused with Air China, which is owned by the Chinese government. In recent years, safety and service incidents associated with Air China have damaged the Taiwanese airline's reputation, as the majority of the world simply cannot tell the two carriers apart, largely due to the confusing naming. 另一方面，中華航空的主要競爭對手「長榮航空」是一家提供高標準飛行安全和高品質服務的台灣國籍航空公司。如果中華航空的英文更名動作，能夠改善中華航空過去行銷上的困難，那麼英文更名所帶來的好處，可能遠超過潛在的成本。 On the other hand, CAL's main competitor, EVA Air, is well known as a Taiwanese company offering high standards of flight safety and service. If China Airlines can change a name that has made marketing difficult in the past, the benefits of rebranding could outweigh the potential costs. 航權 | Aviation Rights 從中華航空的角度來看，另一個令人關注的領域是航權。航權，意指賦予航空公司進入、飛越或降落在另一個國家領空的權利。 The second area of concern from China Airlines' perspective would be aviation rights, which grants airlines the privilege to enter, fly over, or land in another country's airspace. 航權對任何一家航空公司的運營都是極為重要的，是航空公司與監管機構經過數十年談判的結果。有些人表示，中華航空可能會因為英文名稱「China」的更名而失去這些權利，但其實非常重要的一點是，航空公司的形象更名並不需要包含更改其法定名稱。 Such rights, critical to any airline's operations, are as a result of decades of negotiations between airline companies and regulatory agencies. Some have indicated the possibility of China Airlines losing these rights because of a name change, but it is important to understand that rebranding does not have to include changing the legal name. 舉例而言，以阿姆斯特丹作為基地的歐洲大型航空公司是以 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines（荷蘭皇家航空）做為形象名稱，但此航空公司註冊的法定名稱則為Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij。 For instance, the major European airline based in Amsterdam is branded as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, but the three letters KLM stand for its registered legal name, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij. 以類似的方式，中華航空也許可以在英文名稱上更名為「CAL Formosa Airlines」，並同時維持其法定名稱「中華航空」，以避免損及航權。 In a similar fashion, China Airlines could perhaps rebrand as “CAL Formosa Airlines,” while retaining its formal name, to avoid compromising its aviation rights. 政治考量 | Political Considerations 最後，儘管航空公司傾向於不碰觸政治議題，但像中華航空這樣的公司也必須考慮維持其現有飛航市場，尤其是中國。 Finally, while airlines tend to stay out of politics, companies such as China Airlines also have to consider its ability to continue flying into existing markets, particularly China. 對於更改中華航空的英文名稱中的「China」字眼一事，持批評意見者表達了對可能激怒北京共產黨的擔憂，並推測中國政府將禁止中華航空飛入中國領空。 Critics of the idea to rename China Airlines have voiced concerns about angering the Communist Party in Beijing, and have speculated that the Chinese government would ban CAL from flying into Chinese airspace. 儘管這種情況確實是不利且不能被排除的，但中華航空可以選擇改成更具政治中立性的名稱來降低此風險。 While such a situation would indeed be unfavorable, and the possibility of occurrence cannot be ruled out, CAL could minimize risk by choosing a more politically neutral name. 例如，通過使用「Formosa」或「Taipei」等字眼，航空公司可以避開中國與台灣的爭議，並在最不具爭議的情況下繼續為現有的乘客提供服務。 For example, by utilizing words such as “Formosa” or “Taipei”, the airline could stay out of the Taiwan-China debate and continue serving its existing passengers with minimal controversy. 總結來說，即使不將中華航空的英文名稱China Airlines更改為「Taiwan Airlines」，該公司也可以通過將「China」從其英文名稱中刪除，來回應人們建議改名的聲音，並同時避免名字所引起的混淆和爭議。 At the end of the day, even without changing China Airlines' name to “Taiwan Airlines”, the company can respond to the voices of the people by removing “China” from its name and avoid confusion and controversy altogether. Source article: https://chinapost.nownews.com/20200725-1578334   Next Article   Topic: Eva Air is third safest airline globally: Airline Ratings   國際航空專業評鑑網站 AirlineRatings 近日公布 2020 年全球最安全航空公司名單，再度由澳洲航空奪冠、紐西蘭航空排名第二，長榮航空獲得第三名好成績。 EVA Air ranks third, right behind Qantas and Air New Zealand, in the list of the top 20 safest airlines for 2020, according to Airline Ratings, a Website that reviews airline safety and products. 國際航空專業評鑑網站 AirlineRatings 每年都會遴選出全球最安全航空公司，評選標準包括安全創新、營運績效、政府審查、航空公司死亡事故紀錄、航空公司營運史、失事紀錄等標準，評選全球 405 家航空公司。 The website selects the world's safest airlines out of 405 airlines each year, based on their safety innovation, operational excellence, government review, fatal accident records and their operating history. 其他入選航空包括：阿提哈德航空、卡達航空、新加坡航空、阿聯酋航空、阿拉斯加航空、國泰航空、維珍澳洲航空、夏威夷航空、維珍航空、葡萄牙航空、北歐航空、皇家約旦航空、瑞士航空、芬蘭航空、漢莎航空、愛爾蘭航空、荷蘭皇家航空。 The other airlines among the aforesaid list include Etihad, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Alaska Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Virgin Australia, Hawaiian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, TAP Portugal, SAS, Royal Jordanian, Swiss, Finnair, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, and KLM. 根據網站公布結果， 2020 年全球最安全航空公司，長榮航空獲得第三名好成績，這也是繼去年 11 月獲得「 2020 全球最佳航空」第 8 名後，再度獲得國際肯定。 At the end of last year, Eva Air secured the eighth spot in the list of the world's best airlines for 2020, according to the Airline Ratings website. Source article: https://chinapost.nownews.com/20200108-924363;

Today I've spoken to two top travel chief executives: the boss of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and the CEO of Advantage Travel Partnership, a consortium of travel agencies. Very different views on the future.And from one analyst of infection figures: the dozen European countries on the amber list that have lower rates than the UK. Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletter and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marvin Jacobs is the creative director and co-founder of Airborne, an audio agency based in the Netherlands that helps companies use branded podcasts to connect with customers through compelling stories.  Marvin is passionate about storytelling, and explains the crucial role of storytelling in podcasts. He also shares his process for identifying the most interesting topics that the brand and its listeners have in common. Airborne creates unique branded podcasts that are incredibly immersive and make listeners feel as though they are part of an extraordinary experience. We cover a number of examples of Airborne's work, including Journey, an original podcast produced for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Highlights Storytelling through podcasts is an art that takes a lot of time and effort, but is worth it because it results in a loyal and engaging audience in the long term. Airborne helps brands create new associations by finding an interesting domain to tackle when they want to create a podcast.  Branded podcasts are in fact branding instruments. Brands should value quality over quantity while creating a podcast of their own. Loyal listeners will turn into loyal consumers if they feel like they have a personal relationship with the brand. Links from the show Airborne The Journey The Art of Sleep Rumble Studio - Create your free account! Subscribe for free Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  Stay up to date Rumble Studio Newsletter Rumble Studio Blog Follow us on social media LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram Email: hello@rumble.studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our third episode, we welcome our friends Dirk Berlee (Change Manager) and Leon Gommans (Chief Science Officer) of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. We discuss big data, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and predictive maintenance. We talk about how data and data-driven systems are transforming aviation operations and we talk through how we can trust and embrace data driven outcomes. We ask ourselves and discuss: "is aviation truly an industry awash in big data?" and "if so, how do we best leverage the value of data we collect?" With hosts: Mark Roboff, Paula Olivio, Ravi Rajamani, and Martin Whitfield.

Being grounded for much of the pandemic has had hosts Kathryn Romeyn and Eric Rosen taking a harder look at how our passion for travel is contributing to climate change, and asking if there are ways we can address our environmental impact without simply giving up flying altogether. In today’s episode, Eric interviews three experts on the ways that airlines, airports, and yes, even travelers, can chart a greener course for the future.First up is  Karel Bockstael, the vice president of sustainability at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which has recently undertaken research into futuristic aircraft and sustainable aviation fuels, among other measures.Next is Samantha Bricker, the chief sustainability and revenue management officer for Los Angeles World Airports. During a massive expansion, LAX is fast-tracking green building projects that will cut down on traffic, emissions, energy and water use, and waste.Finally, we turn to Tim Johnson, the director of the U.K.-based Aviation Environment Federation to examine aviation's climate and community impacts. He also tells us how travelers can make more responsible choices when flying.Follow and message us on Facebook and Instagram to let us know!

Polle de Maagt ändert die Marken, damit es weniger um Werbung und mehr um Handlungen geht. In den letzten 10 Jahren hat er an globalen Digital-, Innovations- und Markenprojekten für Unternehmen wie Nike, Starbucks, LEGO, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines und IKEA gearbeitet. In Nicht-Korona-Zeiten neigt er dazu, über 200 Nächte pro Jahr außer Haus zu verbringen, entweder um für globale Marken zu arbeiten oder den Kilimandscharo-Gipfel, entlegene Gebiete Grönlands oder die Wüste Jordaniens zu erkunden. Während der Corona-Abriegelung arbeitete er, wie wir alle, zu Hause an der Umgestaltung des niederländischen öffentlichen Verkehrssystems, um in Zukunft sicher, intelligent und komfortabel zu sein, und er arbeitete mit einer Vielzahl von europäischen kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen an Corona-sicheren Geschäftsmodellen. *** Der BRAND VISION TALK ist die Gesprächsrunde für Experten und Markeninteressierte. Der BRAND CLUB AUSTRIA sieht sich als Plattform für den Austausch zwischen Unternehmern und Führungskräften. Wir lernen voneinander und erleben gemeinsam verschiedene Perspektiven erfolgreicher Markenpraxis. Wir tauschen uns aus und verbreiten Mehrwert und Wissen. Wir leben Marke und Kultur. *** Sie wollen über Marke sprechen? Wir würden uns freuen, auch mit Ihnen über das Thema zu sprechen. Bitte senden Sie Ihr Anliegen an dialog@brandvision.at *** Brand Club Austria Die Club Aktivitäten finden Sie vorrangig auf LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/company/brandclub... oder auf unserer Website unter http://www.brandclub.at *** Moderation: Charlotte Hager (comrecon – https://comrecon.com/; https://charlottehager.at) Oliver Schmitt (Stratform – http://stratform.eu/) Paul Kruegel (Deloitte Digital – http://deloittedigital.at; https://paulkruegel.com) Copyright 2020 - Brand Club Austria http://www.brandvision.at

Marvin Jacobs is the Creative Director of Airborne, an audio agency based in the Netherlands. He helps brands finding their own sound, connecting them with the right audiences by making content that matters. That can be spoken word, music or other forms of sound. He is creatively responsible for concepts and content creation with a strong focus on podcasts.   Marvin is the creator of the podcast 'The Journey', which he created on behalf of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. This show tells amazing stories about trips that changed everything. It was Marvin's very first step into the world of podcasting. To his surprise this first series, which launched in 2018, received a lot of recognition world wide, including a Lovies Award, a Red Dot Award and a nomination for a Webby Award. This success led to the founding of audio agency Airborne. As the Creative Director Marvin is fully focused on the medium that he is so passionate about - a passion that started during his daily commute, years ago: podcasts turned his daily drive into inspirational quality time. Now Marvin is a self-declared ambassador for podcasts in the Netherlands. He writes about it for different media, became a jury-member of the Dutch Podcast Awards and give talks about podcasts at all kinds of events. In 2019 his passion and enthusiasm was recognized with an award for him personally, at an important national industry event. In 2020 he plans to launch several new shows, branded and non-branded. But, most importantly, he wants to stay true to his passion and dreams - as he explains in the inspiring conversation with Engel.Links: marvinjacobs.com www.linkedin.com/in/marvinjacobs podcast.klm.com Support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/12minconvos Listen to another #12minconvo

There are two routes in China Eastern’s network that is of crucial importance for the airline’s survival, it’s domestic flight between Shanghai and Beijing(MU&FM) together with its low cost subsidiary – China United Airlines(KN), generated almost half of the airline’s annual profit in fiscal year 2018; and its most important long haul route, Shanghai Pudong to Paris Charles De Gaulle, is becoming the second most frequently operated Sino-European route after Shanghai(SHA) – London(LON) which is served by four carriers (Air China(CA), British Airways(BA), China Eastern(MU) & Virgin Atlantic(VS)) with up to 4 flights daily. In 2020, China Eastern Airlines’ Shanghai – Paris route will continue to served with a frequency increase of up to 17 flights per week and they are in the planing phase of opening a direct route from the brand new Beijing Daxing airport to Paris. “This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. The heads of state of China and France have successfully exchanged visits, pushing the relationship between the two countries to a new level. Aviation cooperation is a “bridge” connecting the people of China and France. It is hoped that the aviation industry of China and France will continue to work together to contribute to the pragmatic cooperation between China and France and write a new chapter in aviation cooperation.” Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye In 2017, China Eastern Airlines invested 375 million euros in the Air France-KLM Group, holding 10% of the shares, becoming the second largest shareholder of Air France-KLM, and co-operating with Air France-KLM on four routes from Paris to Shanghai, Kunming, Wuhan, and Qingdao. On July 27, 2017, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines Holding(hereafter as CEA Holding) and Delta Air Lines entered into a conditional subscription agreement with Air France-KLM, respectively, to acquire 10% newly issued shares in the share capital of Air France-KLM after the completion of issuance of additional shares. CEA Holding entered into a marketing agreement with Air France-KLM to further strengthen the business partnership on the basis of good business relationship between the two parties. On October 3, 2017, the trading of the fixed issuance of additional 10% shares to CEA Holding by Air France-KLM was completed in the Euronext. CEA Holding appointed Tang Bing, its Director and vice president as the director of Air France-KLM. According to the relevant requirements of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the daily businesses such as joint operation and service security between CEA Holding and Air France-KLM and its controlled subsidiaries constituted a related party transaction of the Company under the Rules Governing the Listing of Stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. On December 22, 2017, the Board of Directors considered and approved the relevant resolution regarding the 2017-2019 daily related party transactions between Air France-KLM and CEA Holding, pursuant to which, we will provide aircraft aviation transportation cooperation and support services to Air France-KLM and Air France-KLM will provide aircraft aviation transportation cooperation and support services to CEA Holding. The Board of Directors also approved the 2017-2019 annual caps for the Air France-KLM aircraft aviation transportation cooperation and support services. On August 10, 2018, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CEA Holding entered into the aeronautical materials and components maintenance and spare parts supply service agreement and components lease service agreement with the wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France-KLM, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, pursuant to which, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will lease and maintain aeronautical material and spare parts for CEA Holding‘s 15 B787 airplanes for 15 years. The Board of Directors considered and approved the relevant transactions. On October 30, 2018, a wholly-owned subsidiary of us ...

Können wir nachhaltiger fliegen? Reisen mit gutem Gewissen ist heute nicht mehr so einfach. Flugscham und Flugverzicht lautet das aktuelle Motto für eine grünere Welt. Was sollen wir tun? Lieber ganz am Boden bleiben? KLM Royal Dutch Airlines wird 100 Jahre alt und ruft dazu auf, verantwortungsbewusster zu fliegen. Vanessa West und Christoph Kessel aus der KLM-Marketing-Kommunikation sprechen über nachhaltiges Reisen. Es gibt etwas zu gewinnen! Zusammen mit KLM Royal Dutch Airlines verlost Green Vibes drei der KLM 100 Jahre Upcycling-Kosmetiktaschen. Es handelt sich um ein Upcycling-Produkt aus ehemaligen KLM-Uniformen. Mehr Infos gibt es unter: https://www.instagram.com/greenvibes.podcast/ Fly Responsibly – das Engagement von KLM für das verantwortungsbewusste Fliegen findet ihr hier: https://flyresponsibly.klm.com/de_de#home Nachhaltiges Reisen mit KLM: https://www.klm.com/travel/de_de/prepare_for_travel/fly_co2_neutral/all_about_sustainable_travel/index.htm KLM Startup-Ideenwettbewerb (bis 31. Oktober 2019): http://www.startup-ideenwettbewerb.de Weitere Links: Zeit: https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2019-05/flugverzicht-klimapolitik-emissionen-verantwortung-privileg Flugscham: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/klimaschutz-die-schweden-bleiben-am-boden-100.html Übersicht über die CO2-Emissionen und Kompensationshöhe pro KLM-Passagier pro KLM-Flug: https://www.klm.com/travel/de_de/images/CO2-emission-and-compensation-price-per-destination-2019_tcm592-995022.pdf Beschreibung der KPMG-Berechnungsmethode für die Kompensation: https://www.klm.com/travel/de_de/images/CO2-and-Fuel-CALCULATOR-KLM-version-2019-final_tcm592-613783.pdf Gold Standard – der Partner für das CO2-Kompensationsprojekt von KLM: https://www.goldstandard.org/ SkyNRG – der Biofuel-Partner von KLM: https://skynrg.com/ Umweltbundesamt CO2 Rechner: https://uba.co2-rechner.de/de_DE/

Today we're sharing with you the recent episode of Think Tank with Steve Adubato where he interviews Pete Erickson, CEO of Modev and the Founder of VOICE Summit, Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist of Alexa at Amazon and Martine Van Der Lee, the Director of Social Media for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Listen in to their discussion from this year's VOICE Summit on all things voice.

Marvin Jacobs is the Creative Director of Airborne, the audio company behind The Journey, an outstanding, award-winning podcast from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Chris Ashmore asks Marvin about the idea behind The Journey, the process of extracting and distilling incredible stories and whether the podcast met expectations. The execution of The Journey exemplifies collaborative bravery and innovation from both client and agency. Co-hosts Nick and Nicole discuss the importance of utilising experienced interviewers and intriguing speakers, as well as the need for brands to think seriously about their audio strategy. Also, they explore what’s really behind the 706,000 podcasts that currently exist and Wondery’s $10M Series B raise. This episode of Podcasting Essentials is presented by Nick Schildberger and Nicole Goodman of BE Media Production.  The Journey https://podcast.klm.com/en/ Airborne https://airborne.audio/ How many of the 706,000 podcasts are still in production? https://bit.ly/305UXS3 A Pointed Perspective on the Purported Podfading Problem https://bit.ly/2JjdIuC Podcast Stata – The Sequel https://bit.ly/2KHuMxg Wondery $10M Announcement https://bloom.bg/2XjHEM5 Wondery https://wondery.com/   Podcasting Essentials is produced by: SoundCartel soundcartel.com.au +61 3 9882 8333

The Journey presents brand new episodes with stories about the trip that changed everything. It tells true tales of people whose lives have been transformed by travel. Host Jonathan Groubert meets extraordinary people all over the planet. Each episode revolves around a story in which a journey is the turning point. The Journey is an original podcast brought to you by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Learn more on http://podcast.klm.com.

According to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, they believe actions speak louder than tweets. I don't know the context for their mentioning this, but I definitely agree. How about you? I will leave you to your own speculation about who or what comes to mind when the subject of tweets comes up. I only caution you to avoid conflating tweeting with doing, tweeting with thoughtful discourse, tweeting with reality. Although tweets and tweeting are fairly recent innovations, the idea of communicating through compact pronouncements is not. Let's try a few examples that would have worked quite well as tweets, had the option been available at the time. I have picked out examples that may have best been directed to today's most prolific tweeters. May I suggest that you focus on a specific tweeter, if one comes to mind. That will help when considering the fit between tweets and action, as KLM suggested. #JohnLocke “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” #BenjaminFranklin “Well done is better than well said.” #AlfredAdler “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” #HenryJKaiser “If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” #AndrewCarnegie “As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” #LewisCass “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” And of course, a good tweet session would hardly be complete without some old wisdom that comes from #Me “When all is said and done, don't turn out to be the one for whom much is said but little is done.; for if your action can't speak for its self, more tweets won't do much to make your case.”

According to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, they believe actions speak louder than tweets. I don't know the context for their mentioning this, but I definitely agree. How about you? I will leave you to your own speculation about who or what comes to mind when the subject of tweets comes up. I only caution you to avoid conflating tweeting with doing, tweeting with thoughtful discourse, tweeting with reality. Although tweets and tweeting are fairly recent innovations, the idea of communicating through compact pronouncements is not. Let's try a few examples that would have worked quite well as tweets, had the option been available at the time. I have picked out examples that may have best been directed to today's most prolific tweeters. May I suggest that you focus on a specific tweeter, if one comes to mind. That will help when considering the fit between tweets and action, as KLM suggested. #JohnLocke “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” #BenjaminFranklin “Well done is better than well said.” #AlfredAdler “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” #HenryJKaiser “If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” #AndrewCarnegie “As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” #LewisCass “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” And of course, a good tweet session would hardly be complete without some old wisdom that comes from #Me “When all is said and done, don't turn out to be the one for whom much is said but little is done.; for if your action can't speak for its self, more tweets won't do much to make your case.”

According to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, they believe actions speak louder than tweets. I don’t know the context for their mentioning this, but I definitely…

According to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, they believe actions speak louder than tweets. I don't know the context for their mentioning this, but I definitely agree. How about you? I will leave you to your own speculation about who or what comes to mind when the subject of tweets comes up. I only caution you to avoid conflating tweeting with doing, tweeting with thoughtful discourse, tweeting with reality. Although tweets and tweeting are fairly recent innovations, the idea of communicating through compact pronouncements is not. Let's try a few examples that would have worked quite well as tweets, had the option been available at the time. I have picked out examples that may have best been directed to today's most prolific tweeters. May I suggest that you focus on a specific tweeter, if one comes to mind. That will help when considering the fit between tweets and action, as KLM suggested. #JohnLocke "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." #BenjaminFranklin "Well done is better than well said." #AlfredAdler "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." #HenryJKaiser "If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt." #AndrewCarnegie "As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." #LewisCass "People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." And of course, a good tweet session would hardly be complete without some old wisdom that comes from #Me "When all is said and done, don't turn out to be the one for whom much is said but little is done.; for if your action can't speak for its self, more tweets won't do much to make your case."

This episode of the Metro21: Smart Cities Institute podcast features an insightful discussion with a team of researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The team is part of a special research, design and implementation partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Karen Lightman, Executive Director of Metro21: Smart Cities Institute gets the scoop on how this team maintains beneficial public-private partnerships as well as the challenges and opportunities of working is a live production environment. Metro21: Smart Cities Institute https://www.cmu.edu/metro21/index.html

Ebwana mambo vipi, jina lamgu ni Yesaya, ninakuletea mfululizo wa vipindi kwa njia ya sauti yaani Podcast. Dhumuni langu ni kukuelimisha, kukuhabarisha na kukuletea mijadala mbalimbali kuhusu Teknolojia ya Habari na Mawasiliano (TEHAMA) na mimi nitajikita zaidi kwenye mifumo ya kompyuta. Leo tutazungumza kuhusu viashiria vitakavyokusukuma kutumia ChatBot. Nimetoa mifano mbalimbali ya makampuni yanatumia ChatBot, kama CNN, Whole Food, Mwananchi Magazine, eShangazi, UBA Bank na KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Ungana pamoja nami sasa unaweza pata tafsiri ya ChatBot kutoka katika mazungumzo haya.

Key links & critical information: Get your official Counting Countries apparel Listen with Spotify We’re on Amazon Alexa And check out our new sponsor - The Journey by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - take a listen and subscribe!   More about Jorge Sanchez Born in: I was born in 1954 in Barcelona, Spain Passports from: I have Spanish passport Favorite travel book: My favorite travel book is: The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor Favorite travel film: Baraka Must carry: A notebook Favorite food:  Any Indian dish with curry Favorite drink: Coffee Favorite airline: The cheapest   Favorite hotel: Youth hostel Website: Jorge Sanchez Nomad Mania Map: Jorge Sanchez   Jorge’s books: Meetings With Remarkable Travelers and A Journey To Exotic South America Please leave a rating or a review wherever you listen to Counting Countries. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Alexa and anywhere else you find podcasts. ------------------ For detailed show notes and more about your host, Ric Gazarian, please visit GlobalGaz.com. ------------------ Counting Countries is produced and supported by Simpler Media Productions. Our theme music is by Mundi.

Key links & critical information: Get your official Counting Countries apparel Listen with Spotify We’re on Amazon Alexa And check out our new sponsor - The Journey by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - take a listen and subscribe!   More about Peleg Cohen: Born in: Nahariya, Israel Passports from: Israel Favorite travel book: A Fine Balance Favorite travel film: Into The Wild Must carry: Camera!!   Favorite food:  My mom’s cooking, then Indian food Favorite drink: Mezcal Website: Lonely Peleg Facebook: Lonely Peleg Please leave a rating or a review wherever you listen to Counting Countries. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Alexa and anywhere else you find podcasts. ------------------ For detailed show notes and more about your host, Ric Gazarian, please visit GlobalGaz.com. ------------------ Counting Countries is produced and supported by Simpler Media Productions. Our theme music is by Mundi.

Key links & critical information: Get your official Counting Countries apparel Listen with Spotify We’re on Amazon Alexa And check out our new sponsor - The Journey by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - take a listen and subscribe!   More about Samer Kawar:   Born in: San Francisco Bay Area Passports from: USA, Jordan Favorite travel book: Any Lonely Planet Guide Favorite travel film: Seven Years in Tibet Favorite travel app or website: Nomad Mania, Atlas Obscura, Tripadvisor Must carry: My sketchbook, Polaroid Zip photo printer Favorite food:  Khao soi, torta ahogada, coconut curry Favorite drink: the local beer in each country Favorite airline: Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines Favorite hotel: Airways Hotel, PNG Website: WanderLuster Instagram: WanderLuster Twitter: WanderLuster Map: Nomad Mania       Please leave a rating or a review wherever you listen to Counting Countries. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Alexa and anywhere else you find podcasts. ------------------ For detailed show notes and more about your host, Ric Gazarian, please visit GlobalGaz.com. ------------------ Counting Countries is produced and supported by Simpler Media Productions. Our theme music is by Mundi.

Introducing The Journey: a podcast that tells true tales of people whose lives have been transformed by travel. Brought to you by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Group interaction through social computing.In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak with Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research. Cheng’s team is responsible for the Microsoft Bot Framework. She’s also a speaker at O’Reilly’s upcoming Bot Day on October 19, 2016, in San Francisco. Cheng talks about Microsoft’s experimental bots and their goal of making conversations playful and engaging. We also discuss the importance of designing good dialog; the potential of workplace bots; and Xiaoice, Microsoft’s popular Chinese chatbot. We also reflect on the fate and significance of Microsoft’s Tay bot.Bots of the week: This week, I discuss three bots that either augment or replace customer-service representatives. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ bot that gives you updates on your reservation through Facebook Messenger and provides a way to chat with a human representative “Macy’s on Call,” a web-based bot that provides in-store users with information on where store departments -- and the restrooms -- are located. Whole Foods Market Recipe bot, Facebook Messenger bot that gives shoppers an easy way to look up recipes on a mobile device while they are in the store. Other links: My Infographic on the Bot Platform Ecosystem WolframAlpha, the online computational knowledge engine that answers questions

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Group interaction through social computing.In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak with Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research. Cheng’s team is responsible for the Microsoft Bot Framework. She’s also a speaker at O’Reilly’s upcoming Bot Day on October 19, 2016, in San Francisco. Cheng talks about Microsoft’s experimental bots and their goal of making conversations playful and engaging. We also discuss the importance of designing good dialog; the potential of workplace bots; and Xiaoice, Microsoft’s popular Chinese chatbot. We also reflect on the fate and significance of Microsoft’s Tay bot.Bots of the week: This week, I discuss three bots that either augment or replace customer-service representatives. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ bot that gives you updates on your reservation through Facebook Messenger and provides a way to chat with a human representative “Macy’s on Call,” a web-based bot that provides in-store users with information on where store departments -- and the restrooms -- are located. Whole Foods Market Recipe bot, Facebook Messenger bot that gives shoppers an easy way to look up recipes on a mobile device while they are in the store. Other links: My Infographic on the Bot Platform Ecosystem WolframAlpha, the online computational knowledge engine that answers questions

This is Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. Here is the news. President Xi Jinping's wife Peng Liyuan says people from all walks of life should do more to support children orphaned by HIV and AIDS. Peng made the remarks at an opening ceremony for the 2016 summer camp for Chinese and African children. The event, entitled "Love in the Sunshine", has been held at the Palace Museum in Beijing. Peng is the World Health Organization goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Peng said that despite their nationality or race, children orphaned by AIDS are the future of the world. It is the common responsibility of society to love and care for children orphaned by HIV and AIDS, so that they can grow up soundly and happily. The event was a part of the follow-up actions of a China-Africa anti-AIDS advocacy campaign launched last year by Peng and the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS. The summer camp is sponsored by the Chinese Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control, and is the 7th in a row since the camp began in 2010. Fifty-seven children orphaned by AIDS from China, South Africa, Ghana and Zimbabwe attended this year's summer camp. This is Special English. With its open culture and growing economy, China is becoming a popular destination for higher education seekers in Australia. According to a report by The Sydney Morning Herald on Sunday, there are 5,000 Australians studying in Chinese universities, up by 83 percent compared with the figure in 2011. The report said the number of Australian students studying in China has kept growing in recent years, attributing the change to China's open society and healthy economy. A Chinese education expert was quoted as saying that local Chinese companies are rising and they are becoming more and more competitive. Other factors have also contributed, including economic growth, a more service-orientated economy, and a more technologically-focused economy. Though the number of Australian students in China is increasing, it pales comparing with that of Chinese students heading to Australia and non-Australian international students in China. According to the Chinese Education Ministry, Chinese universities have an enrolment of almost 200,000 international students last year, surging 12 percent from a year earlier. Last year, students from South Korea, the United States and Thailand ranked the three biggest groups in China, while Beijing, Shanghai and Zhejiang province in eastern China are the top three destinations of foreign students. China now has 2,800 higher educational institutions, the second biggest number in the world. Aiming to attract up to 500,000 foreign students in 2020, China has kept increasing its educational input in recent years. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. China is planning to build its first domestically produced polar icebreaker. The Shanghai-based Jiangnan Shipyard has made the announcement, saying construction will start by the end of this year. China's current largest polar icebreaker, the "Xuelong", or Snow Dragon, was bought from the Ukrainian in 1993. China refitted it into a polar research vessel at a cost of 31 million yuan, almost 5 million U.S. dollars. The icebreaker was put into service the following year. So far, it has completed 32 expeditions in Antarctica and is now on its 7th Arctic expedition. The new home produced vessel will be 120 meters long which is smaller than the "Xuelong", but with stronger icebreaking power. The "Xuelong" can work non-stop, breaking 1-meter thick ice at a sailing speed of 2 knots; while the new vessel is designed to break 1-and-a-half-meter thick ice at a sailing speed of 3 knots. This is Special English. China will expand international exchange in the training of astronauts in a bid to push it closer to becoming a space power. The Astronaut Center of China made the announcement recently while briefing an international training mission for astronauts. Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu participated in the mission. Ye is the first Chinese citizen to receive "CAVES" training organized by the European Space Agency. "CAVES" is short for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behavior and performance Skills. It is an advanced training course for astronauts. The training took place in underground caves in Sardinia in Italy. Prospective astronauts from Japan, Russia, Spain and the United States also took part in the training. The Astronaut Center of China says that in the future, China will strengthen international communication in astronaut training while also relying on its own efforts. It is not known whether further Chinese astronauts will be selected for CAVES training. China is considering the possibility of starting its own CAVES program, and had examined several potential sites. Ye and five others spent several days underground from July 1-7, simulating a mission exploring another planet. CAVES training puts them in environments that simulate spaceflight, as well as improving leadership, teamwork, decision-making and problem-solving skills. This is Special English. Relocation of two top Chinese airlines to a new airport in Beijing will help cut airfares for international passengers. The move will also improve services for national flagship carrier Air China, which will remain at Beijing Capital International Airport. China Eastern and China Southern Airlines, along with some other SkyTeam Alliance members, will move to Beijing's new international airport when it begins operation in 2019. Other carriers to be relocated will include Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Korean Air. National carrier Air China and other Star Alliance partners, including United Airlines, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines and Japanese airline ANA, will stay. Slot shortages at Beijing Capital International Airport have made it increasingly difficult for airlines to add flights and launch new routes. The ultra-large new airport will be in Daxing district in Beijing's southeastern suburbs. It is expected to serve those who travel to and from Beijing and its neighbors Tianjin and Hebei province. As the southern part of Beijing further develops, with more businesses and government agencies moving there, passengers will find it increasingly convenient to use the new airport. Since the new airport will be almost 50 kilometers from the downtown area, airline companies based there will likely offer cheaper ticket prices to attract passengers and tour groups. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues. China will spend 36 million yuan, roughly 5 million US dollars, on geological disaster surveys in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Starting in July, the fund will be allocated over three years to launch systematic surveys in two counties in the northern part of Kunlun Mountain, which is susceptible to frequent earthquakes. The surveys will focus on disaster risk levels and monitoring to help locals improve their ability of pre-warning and damage prevention. Satellites and drones will be used to collect data and monitor disasters in the area, while locals will attend training sessions on prevention. Xinjiang has complex weather and natural conditions, with 1 million square km, or 64 percent of the region's area, prone to geological disasters. A massive landslide killed 35 people in a village and forced the relocation of 200 others last month. This is Special English. Beijing's green industries could be worth 250 billion yuan, roughly 38 billion U.S. dollars, by 2020, particularly those focused on recycling and waste treatment. By the end of 2020, Beijing intends to employ some new technology including wastewater management and plastic recycling. A municipal official said recently that Beijing has laid out a plan to develop cutting-edge technology for environmental protection, including garbage processing and fuel control in some industries. According to Beijing's Action Plan on Technological Innovation, by next year, 20 major innovation projects will be carried out, some of which will improve the quality of the water discharged from wastewater recycling plants. One such project is an underground network that will benefit around 11 million residents in central China. Other projects have helped make it easier for local residents around Beijing to recycle household items including plastic bottles, electronic waste and clothes. Automatic recycling machines for plastic bottles were introduced in Beijing in 2012, allowing users to process used bottles and get paid directly through their smartphones. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. More than half of Chinese children aged six months or younger are purely breastfed. The National Health and Family Planning Commission made the announcement to mark the 2016 World Breastfeeding Week last week. The breastfeeding rate for newborns under six months was 59 percent in 2013, a surge from 28 percent in 2008. The commission will formulate guidelines to standardize breastfeeding rooms in public places. It encourages public and private entities to set up such facilities in workplaces and public venues, to address the problem of insufficient and substandard breastfeeding sites in the country. This is Special English. （全文见周日微信。）