Headlines
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Jetstar signs AF/KLM pact
Wednesday | Jun 2 2010JETSTAR has today signed a “landmark interline agreement” with Air France and KLM, which is the first interline deal covering the whole Jetstar Group outside of its parent company, Qantas.
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Accor reports recovery
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010HOTEL group Accor Asia Pacific says a combination of strong demand and a lack of new hotel rooms coming onto the market is likely to see room rates in Australia increase this year.
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Giant response to TA ad
Tuesday | Jun 1 2010THE copy of the new Tourism Australia TV commercial which was loaded onto the Travel Daily TV website (TD yesterday) has attracted about a thousand views and many comments in the last 18 hours since it went online.
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TA launches new promo
Monday | May 31 2010THE new Tourism Australia ‘Nothing like Australia’ campaign went live this morning (TD breaking news), with phase 2 including a new TV commercial featuring locations and images inspired by contributions from ordinary Aussies.
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Qantas to lift MEL A380s
Monday | May 31 2010QANTAS this morning confirmed the deployment details of its next four Airbus A380s, which are expected to arrive in the next 12 months or so.
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QFLink ramps up int’l ops
Friday | May 28 2010The Qantas regional subsidiary flagged the expansion of its network to PNG earlier this year (TD 12 Mar) when it applied to the International Air Services Commission seeking 888 seats per week to the country’s capital.
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QF delays return of First
Friday | May 28 2010PREMIUM travel is clearly taking longer to recover than expected, with Qantas pushing back the planned re-introduction of First Class service on three international routes (TD 16 Feb).
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Very Melbourne, not GC
Thursday | May 27 2010MELBOURNE is now the clear leader in terms of “most preferred domestic destination,” significantly outpacing the Gold Coast in a study published by Roy Morgan Research yesterday.
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CO 787s on the Pacific
Thursday | May 27 2010QANTAS will have a new competitor across the Pacific next year, with the launch of 787 long-haul flights between Auckland and Houston by Continental Airlines (TD breaking news)
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Tourism NZ direct push
Wednesday | May 26 2010TOURISM New Zealand will continue to focus its promotions in the Australian market directly on consumers, despite research which shows that 60% of Australians coming to NZ have had “engagement with a travel agent for advice or booking”.