Live From the Skift Global Forum

Madhu Unnikrishnan

September 24th, 2021

This week’s episode of the ‘Lounge comes to you live from the TWA Hotel at New York Kennedy during the Skift Global Forum 2021. The Airline Weekly team discusses why Air France-KLM Group CEO Ben Smith was “pleasantly shocked,” incoming Southwest CEO Robert Jordan’s concerns about hiring, and what the Justice Department hopes to accomplish with its suit against the American-JetBlue Northeast Alliance.

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Madhu Unnikrishnan

September 24th, 2021

Photo credit: American and Southwest pilots want exemptions from Biden's Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Flickr / TDelCoro/Tomás Del Coro

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