Headlines
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New Qatar regional office
Wednesday | Dec 9 2009QATAR Airways will shortly open a new Pacific Rim regional office in Sydney as the airline cements its status as a new online carrier to Australia, following the debut this week of its first flight between Doha and Melbourne.
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Qantas tops satisfaction
Tuesday | Dec 8 2009TIGER Airways and Jetstar significantly lag Virgin Blue and Qantas in terms of customer satisfaction, according to a Roy Morgan poll released yesterday.
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New Micronesian carrier
Tuesday | Dec 8 2009AUSTRALIAN travel company Aerius Travel has today launched a new Palau-based airline which will operate thrice weekly flights from Brisbane to Micronesia.
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No more AFTA Traveller
Monday | Dec 7 2009AFTA this morning announced a new “communications strategy” for 2010, which will see its member magazine AFTA Traveller cease…
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C&K Australia online move
Monday | Dec 7 2009TEMPO Holidays owner Cox & Kings (C&K) today confirmed it would launch a new “online travel supermarket” in Australia next year, but will continue to operate the Tempo brand in its current “well established form”.
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Smartraveller SMS alerts
Friday | Dec 4 2009AUSTRALIAN travellers could be able to register their overseas travel plans and update their itineraries with the Federal Government using SMS technology and ‘smart phones’ next year under new plans to improve the Smartraveller system.
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Emirates hails TA paper
Friday | Dec 4 2009EMIRATES has highlighted a submission by Tourism Australia to the ACCC which claims that the tourism sector could be a “big loser from airline consolidation and the growing influence of alliances”.
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Accor launch ‘Medi Hotel’
Thursday | Dec 3 2009ACCOR says its newest property to open in Melbourne’s western corridor is about to become a “pioneer in Australia’s hotel industry” through its creation of the first ‘medi hotel’ concept.
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Walshe increases stake
Thursday | Dec 3 2009INTERESTS associated with the Walshe family have increased their ownership of NZ-listed Southern Travel Holdings to 37.16%, after less than two-thirds of a rights issue was taken up by other shareholders.
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QF rolls out domestic IFE
Wednesday | Dec 2 2009QANTAS has confirmed that it’s rolling out seat-back personal on-demand inflight entertainment on some domestic routes, as revealed by Travel Daily (TD 18 Nov).