{"id":19458,"date":"2023-10-02T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/?p=19458"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:19:02","slug":"up-in-the-air-are-aussies-getting-a-fair-deal-on-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/up-in-the-air-are-aussies-getting-a-fair-deal-on-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the Air | Are Aussies getting a fair deal on travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approx read: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h2 id=\"from-flight-prices-to-a-lack-o\" class=\"x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\">From flight prices to a lack of consumer protections, Australian travellers are hit on multiple fronts when it comes to booking that big trip.<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"battleface-sat-down-with-our-m\" class=\"x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\">battleface sat down with our Managing Director for Australia &amp; New Zealand Matt McLellan to find out why Aussies are being short-changed when it comes to getting away<span class=\"x_ContentPasted1\">\u2014<\/span>and what they can do about it.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted2\">Matt has 20 years of experience in travel technology and distribution, including running the Asia-Pacific business for airline e-commerce platform Navitaire before moving into travel insurance and insurance distribution with New Zealand-based insurer Chubb<b class=\"x_ContentPasted2\">.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted2\">Matt tells battleface Uncharted podcast why the pandemic contributed to pre-existing problems of supply, some of the horror stories he&#8217;s seen in terms of airline ticket pricing, and whether we will continue to see the familiar sight of the Aussie backpacker on the streets of Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Up in the air | Are Aussies getting a fair deal on travel?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CbIqJDEPPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From flight prices to a lack of consumer protections, Australian travellers are hit on multiple fronts when it comes to booking that big trip. battleface sat down with our Managing Director for Australia &amp; New Zealand Matt McLellan to find out why Aussies are being short-changed when it comes to getting away\u2014and what they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":20393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,1294],"tags":[1566],"class_list":["post-19458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncharted-podcast","category-featured","tag-australia","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21634,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458\/revisions\/21634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}