How the founder of Journera wants to reshape travel through data

Talking Points

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"Data is a currency, and you've got to get ready for a world where not just Google knows that, but travel brands capitalize on the fact that their information is key to making a better journey." That's from Jeff Katz, one of the most prominent figures in travel. He joins Talking Points this week to explain what his latest venture, Journera, is all about and what it was like to be a part of the industry during airline deregulation. He's been the CEO of Swiss Air, an executive at Sabre and American Airlines, and was the founding CEO of Orbitz.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly and today you know what I'm pretty proud of our guests on talking points. We've had our fair share of CEOs and
0:10.7	CMOs, but today we have someone who has shaped the travel industry in many
0:16.1	different ways including being the CEO of a major airline.
0:19.7	So I was CEO of Swiss Air I knew how to talk and use a calculator.
0:24.0	And a founding CEO of one of the most influential online travel agencies.
0:30.4	Orbitz would show everything was about choice and many other positions including
0:36.3	pilots today I'm flying something called a citation m2 it's like flying your
0:40.4	iPhone innovator to the max Jeff Katz right after this.
0:47.6	Welcome to talking points Jeff Katz. Thank you it's a pleasure. So Jeff
0:51.2	when you were growing up did you always knew that you wanted to be a big travel industry disruptor?
0:57.0	I did not. I mean, I've always been interested in airplanes as a young child, and traveled my parents were European immigrants and so I
1:05.9	traveled to Europe a lot as a young child. So I've always been interested in airplanes
1:10.9	but didn't really fancy myself as being involved in travel
1:15.0	till a much later stage of life. Where did you grow up? Was there an airport that you
1:18.8	would there was an airport? I grew up in what is today a well-known town called Napa, California.
1:25.0	Oh wow.
1:26.0	Back then it was just a sort of a blue collar place.
1:29.0	And what brought your parents there?
1:30.0	It was, you'll laugh, but in those days that's where you could afford a house if you lived in
1:36.0	San Francisco.
1:37.9	So they were, my dad was an accountant, my mom was a nurse.
1:40.3	So he was in a fort.
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