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Welcome to the BT360 Podcast: What's Up in Business Travel for Week 32 of 2021.  This is a weekly podcast where we update you on what's up this week in the world of business travel.  This podcast is great for those who need to know what's happening all in less than 15 minutes.Topics covered during this podcast -STR upgrades 2021 US Hotel forecast as demand surges72% of travelers have already traveled domesticallyTwo global consulting firms say they will save $1B by cutting travel in 2022Canadian travelers will need to be vaccinated soonTTC Brands require guests to be vaccinatedHawaiian Airlines issues employee vaccine mandatePuerto Rico will require hotel guests be vaccinatedQatar, RwandAir form partnershipDelta Air Lines adds Thylas partnershipRadius Travel adds Clyde Travel ManagementHyatt to acquires Apple Leisure Group expanding global presenceCT Partners adds two more agencies in AustraliaAvianca expands with new US routesQantas Airways extends status for frequent flyer membersConsolidated adds NDCEmirates adds Routehappy content to NDC platformSAP Concur adds meetings solution powered by GroupizeTune in every Monday morning to get your weekly update.  We hope you will make this a regular part of your week and listen in while you on the move or sitting back and sipping your coffee.  You can subscribe to this podcast by searching BusinessTravel360 on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora or Spotify.   You can always find more information at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show (https://businesstravel360.com/podcast)

It's been almost two years since fare-filing platform ATPCO bought Routehappy - a deal that not only secured Routehappy's position on the aviation map but also set about a major evolution of the 54-year-old buyer.Routehappy's rich content platform, essentially a mechanism to showcase features and amenities of aircraft and airlines at the booking phase for consumers, has spearheaded a wider shift to retailing and next-generation distribution for ATPCO.Routehappy CEO Robert Albert clearly created something that legacy platform ATPCO realized would be beneficial to its own future, working alongside its existing fare and data services.The story behind Routehappy is an important one for startups to understand, as a small but growing business had to forge relationships with huge companies and illustrate to the industry that it was a product worth using.Ex-Travelocity strategy exec Albert's story ranges from the usual dilemmas around making money, how to solve the problems it faced and, most recently, getting acquired.He joins us for episode ten of How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.Other episodes: on PhocusWire and Mozio.

It's been almost two years since fare-filing platform ATPCO bought Routehappy - a deal that not only secured Routehappy's position on the aviation map but also set about a major evolution of the 54-year-old buyer.Routehappy's rich content platform, essentially a mechanism to showcase features and amenities of aircraft and airlines at the booking phase for consumers, has spearheaded a wider shift to retailing and next-generation distribution for ATPCO.Routehappy CEO Robert Albert clearly created something that legacy platform ATPCO realized would be beneficial to its own future, working alongside its existing fare and data services.The story behind Routehappy is an important one for startups to understand, as a small but growing business had to forge relationships with huge companies and illustrate to the industry that it was a product worth using.Ex-Travelocity strategy exec Albert's story ranges from the usual dilemmas around making money, how to solve the problems it faced and, most recently, getting acquired.He joins us for episode ten of How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.Other episodes: on PhocusWire and Mozio.

It's been almost two years since fare-filing platform ATPCO bought Routehappy - a deal that not only secured Routehappy's position on the aviation map but also set about a major evolution of the 54-year-old buyer.Routehappy's rich content platform, essentially a mechanism to showcase features and amenities of aircraft and airlines at the booking phase for consumers, has spearheaded a wider shift to retailing and next-generation distribution for ATPCO.Routehappy CEO Robert Albert clearly created something that legacy platform ATPCO realized would be beneficial to its own future, working alongside its existing fare and data services.The story behind Routehappy is an important one for startups to understand, as a small but growing business had to forge relationships with huge companies and illustrate to the industry that it was a product worth using.Ex-Travelocity strategy exec Albert's story ranges from the usual dilemmas around making money, how to solve the problems it faced and, most recently, getting acquired.He joins us for episode ten of How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.Other episodes: on PhocusWire and Mozio.

It's been almost two years since fare-filing platform ATPCO bought Routehappy - a deal that not only secured Routehappy's position on the aviation map but also set about a major evolution of the 54-year-old buyer.Routehappy's rich content platform, essentially a mechanism to showcase features and amenities of aircraft and airlines at the booking phase for consumers, has spearheaded a wider shift to retailing and next-generation distribution for ATPCO.Routehappy CEO Robert Albert clearly created something that legacy platform ATPCO realized would be beneficial to its own future, working alongside its existing fare and data services.The story behind Routehappy is an important one for startups to understand, as a small but growing business had to forge relationships with huge companies and illustrate to the industry that it was a product worth using.Ex-Travelocity strategy exec Albert's story ranges from the usual dilemmas around making money, how to solve the problems it faced and, most recently, getting acquired.He joins us for episode ten of How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.Other episodes: on PhocusWire and Mozio.

Welcome to Episode 069 of the #PaxEx Podcast, which tracks how the airline passenger experience is evolving in a mobile, social, vocal world.

Merchandising content platform for flight shopping… Robert Albert, CEO of Routehappy (the industry standard for airline rich content, acquired by ATPCO) joins John Matson and Nick Vivion in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser. In this episode: The most commonly desired amenity in travel: seat, then WiFi Selling a singular vision when pitching/building Routehappy How it is not actually all about price An entire ecommerce category that’s comeditized, we all about the experience from that moment on Explaining products and services customers are happier, and the industry does better How it was obvious to him that every customer needed this Why Albert feels it has felt like spreading a religion, every meeting is positive, but not necessarily a priority all the time It is an organic experience, brick by brick building the path forward for the company and the recognition of the need How the pace of building the company has helped them build it right, solving a complex problem, and why the company is ready for prime time now and can solve global differentiation problem in flight shopping Why GDS’s didn’t solve this prior Sales cycles in travel vs. funds for startups Massive network effect, explaining the story and getting airlines and distributers to align on the story and potential impact How hard Albert and team worked building the company, holding twenty five meetings a week while traveling, making good product decisions that got companies interested Originally Routehappy was about consumer flight reviews, then built APIs of data, and operating lean Happy and cheap as a product compass How Routehappy’s solution was now described as being able to enable the industry with better data, and that resulted in the first serious ways people were paying attention Moving from B to C to B to B as a pivot Pineapple chunks, and why this Australian treat was the snack, and the meaning How Routehappy was recently acquired by ATPCO, software that manages the world’s airfares UTA rich context (universal ticket attribute) Becoming the “Switzerland of rich content”, how Routehappy can now deliver on the thing they said they were doing for seven years Overall vision as the next gen storefront, how it is time to modernize flight shopping, how indirect channels can and should transform, and coming together with the “how” The happy empire and the tip of the iceberg Albert’s parental inspiration for travel

Going deep on economy seats, Routehappy by ATPCO director of airline research Jason Rabinowitz joins RGN deputy editor John Walton to discuss the latest trends down the back of the plane, where new generations of seating products create more space for airlines, and in some cases for passengers. What new slimline seats are on the horizon for passengers in economy class? Which airlines have big plans for their economy product? What do these changes mean for passengers’ knees — and for their eyeballs? Which of the new generation of slimlines, with their brand-new engineering, work best for passengers, and which get the density airlines want but at the cost of comfort? And, if you’re an airline, how can you get them on your planes fastest, including by leasing a full set of seats from Lufthansa Technik?

Merchandising content platform for flight shopping… Robert Albert, CEO of Routehappy (the industry standard for airline rich content, acquired by ATPCO) joins John Matson and Nick Vivion in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.In this episode: The most commonly desired amenity in travel: seat, then WiFi Selling a singular vision when pitching/building Routehappy How it is not actually all about price An entire ecommerce category that’s comeditized, we all about the experience from that moment on Explaining products and services customers are happier, and the industry does better How it was obvious to him that every customer needed this Why Albert feels it has felt like spreading a religion, every meeting is positive, but not necessarily a priority all the time It is an organic experience, brick by brick building the path forward for the company and the recognition of the need How the pace of building the company has helped them build it right, solving a complex problem, and why the company is ready for prime time now and can solve global differentiation problem in flight shopping Why GDS’s didn’t solve this prior Sales cycles in travel vs. funds for startups Massive network effect, explaining the story and getting airlines and distributers to align on the story and potential impact How hard Albert and team worked building the company, holding twenty five meetings a week while traveling, making good product decisions that got companies interested Originally Routehappy was about consumer flight reviews, then built APIs of data, and operating lean Happy and cheap as a product compass How Routehappy’s solution was now described as being able to enable the industry with better data, and that resulted in the first serious ways people were paying attention Moving from B to C to B to B as a pivot Pineapple chunks, and why this Australian treat was the snack, and the meaning How Routehappy was recently acquired by ATPCO, software that manages the world’s airfares UTA rich context (universal ticket attribute) Becoming the “Switzerland of rich content”, how Routehappy can now deliver on the thing they said they were doing for seven years Overall vision as the next gen storefront, how it is time to modernize flight shopping, how indirect channels can and should transform, and coming together with the “how” The happy empire and the tip of the iceberg Albert’s parental inspiration for travel                          

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RGN contributing editor John Walton is in conversation with New Yorker Jason Rabinowitz, director of airline research at Routehappy, about New York’s three, four, five or six airports (depending on how you count them), the #PaxEx in the world’s largest aviation market, and future plans from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. What’s going on with “third world” LaGuardia? Why is JFK still a mess? Is the Port Authority making things worse? Will we ever see decent public transportation to the airports? How do the airlines at JFK, Newark, LaGuardia and elsewhere line up? Will Norwegian’s Stewart operation be a Ryanair-style “New York-ish” success? And what needs to happen for change to be possible in the future?

On this episode of the Skift podcast, we’re bringing you three short conversations on air travel that we had in the Skift Take Studio backstage at the Skift Global Forum. The first conversation is with Robert Albert, founder and CEO of Routehappy, followed by a spirited back-and-forth between The Points Guy founder Brian Kelly and George Hobica, founder of discount airfare site Airfarewatchdog.com. The third is with Ben Smith, president for passenger airlines at Air Canada. This is one of several conversations we’re bringing you from backstage at the Skift Global Forum. The Skift Take Studio Series is presented by Mastercard, a payments technology company that is enabling loyalty, security and data solutions for the global travel industry.

Our guest for this episode is Jason Rabinowitz, who has quickly become one of the most high-profile #AvGeeks in the aviation industry. His Twitter feed combines intelligence about aviation and rail with a dash of millennial sarcasm, and unsurprisingly his following is growing quickly. He’s also Routehappy’s chief data guy, meaning he is sitting on a treasure trove of #PaxEx info. And we’re also proud to count him as a member of Runway Girl Network.

Our guest for this episode is Maryann Simson, a long-time aviation journalist and former editor of Pax International magazine. Maryann is a regularly contributor to Runway Girl Network, Aircraft Interiors International magazine and APEX Experience magazines, and also provides marketing support to #PaxEx firms.

Did you like what Scott Mackenzie had to say in this episode about earning and redeeming points and miles? If you'd like to get started with points and miles, then you can check out my book The Beginners Guide to Points and Miles. And be sure to follow his blog, Hack My Trip. Photo by: Nick Ciorogan Before Scott Mackenzie mastered earning points and miles, he was earning his Ph.D in neuroscience. He launched his travel hacking blog, Hack My Trip, while he was still in school. It was flying to interviews for his graduate school interviews that introduced him to earning enough frequent flyer miles for his first redemption. He quickly earned enough to extend his travel perks into his time spent living the frugal life of a student. Graduate students don’t generally have large sums of cash to help them fly to Asia during their school breaks; but Scott had figured out the secret to not only taking trips a student could pay for, but that most people couldn't afford to take. In this episode, Scott allows me to pick his brain to help you get started thinking about travel hacking to earn points and miles so that we can break down the cost-prohibitive aspects of travel and see the world for as close to free as possible. Words from a Travel Hacker: “A good redemption gets you where you want to go with minimal inconvenience and you end up happy.” Tweet this! What You’ll Learn What is Travel Hacking, and how does Scott define it. Rather than travel for free, Scott considers it a moderate investment to travel in a much higher class. The basics of mile-running. How and why Scott might spend $125 and hours on a plane in coach to earn enough miles to redeem for a first class ticket to Asia. How Scott took his wife on a 2-week honeymoon to Southeast Asia, flying business class, and staying at the some of world’s best hotels, all on points and miles. Why diversification of points is a good strategy. Scott’s advice to get started earning and redeeming points and miles The ways Scott thinks about travel hacking to earn successfully Where Scott generally transfers his American Express Membership Rewards and Ultimate Rewards points How Scott defines a good redemption, and why good redemptions are subjective. Scott’s Best Travel Advice The First Step: Have a plan. Don’t book at random. Don’t overlook opportunities to consolidate value and leverage earning. Money Saving Tip or Travel Hack: Cut your expenses. Priorities are important. “I’ve never subscribed to cable. Only got texting this month!” Use forced savings to make automatic withdrawals from one bank to another, so you don’t even have regular visibility on the other account. Cheapest Airfare: Practice makes perfect. Scott’s Guide to Using ITA’s Matrix. http://hackmytrip.com/2012/01/introduction-to-using-ita/ Then book through Hipmunk, which integrates ITA’s display features as well as the advanced routing language. RouteHappy helps ease the decision making process by showing seating, comfort, details of your journey. Travel Book: Travel Gear: Macbook Air 13” Weirdest Food: Durian Mentioned in this episode Scott’s blog, Hack My Trip Scott on Milepoint.com @hackmytrip on Twitter Hyatt Points Program Starwood Preferred Guests points program OpenFlights.org Scott’s Guide to Using ITA’s Matrix. Google Flights Hipmunk RouteHappy Music Credit: Passion Pit - Moth’s Wings (Artec Remix), Aaron Static – Intrepid Journey Like the show? I’d love a rating and review! Take action and please share the show! All you have to do is click one of the social sharing buttons at the top of this post. Also please leave a rating or review on iTunes! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick...

Our guest this week is Jason Rabinowitz, who writes for numerous #AvGeek and #PaxEx publications, and researches #PaxEx data for flight search and review site Routehappy. You can find him on Twitter as @AirlineFlyer and on FaceBook.

Our first guest is Routehappy director of data John Walton, an aviation geek through and through, and a leading thinker in the world of #PaxEx.

Can an online flight search engine create a defensible business? The keyword for this interview is Big Data. In this world of big data where Omnicom and Publicis, the world’s two largest ad agencies merged to compete with Silicon Valley, there may be more to the RouteHappy.com story.Follow along while we interview Robert Albert, the CEO and founder, about why he believes Route Happy and its current database of over 100,000 flights will lead the market for “happy data:”

Can an online flight search engine create a defensible business? The keyword for this interview is Big Data. In this world of big data where Omnicom and Publicis, the world’s two largest ad agencies merged to compete with Silicon Valley, there may be more to the RouteHappy.com story.Follow along while we interview Robert Albert, the CEO and founder, about why he believes Route Happy and its current database of over 100,000 flights will lead the market for “happy data:”