Headlines
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Virgin pauses refunds
Friday | May 8 2020VIRGIN Australia has paused issuing new travel credits and refunds while it awaits direction from its administrator.
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FC sells off St Kilda office
Friday | May 8 2020FLIGHT Centre Travel Group has agreed to sell its Victorian office in St Kilda to Shakespeare Property Group for $62.15m.
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ACI forecasts further falls
Friday | May 8 2020NEW modelling released by Airports Council International (ACI) indicates there will be a global reduction in air traffic of more than 4.6 billion pax for the full year 2020 due to COVID-19.
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Egencia lends a hand
Friday | May 8 2020EXPEDIA Group’s corporate travel division Egencia has launched the Helping Healthcare travel program, a service aimed at assisting globalhealthcare providerssecure hotels for employees who are travelling to COVID-19 impacted areas.
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TA goes live with recovery
Thursday | May 7 2020TOURISM Australia has revealed plans to kick off a major tourism campaign, designed to keep the country’s tourism sector front-of-mind when travel restrictions are eventually lifted.
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ETG’s first Alatus agent
Thursday | May 7 2020EXPRESS Travel Group (ETG) has announced that business travel specialist Connections Group has joined its new Alatus Corporate agency network (TD 29 Apr).
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The trans-Tasman bubble and post COVID-19 travel
Thursday | May 7 2020DR Jeff Jarvis is Director of the Graduate Tourism Program at Melbourne’s Monash University.
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QR plots network recovery
Thursday | May 7 2020QATAR Airway today announced the phased rebuilding of its international flight network, with plans to have services operating to 80 destinations by the end of next month.
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NZ travel could be sooner
Wednesday | May 6 2020NEW Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters has stated travel between Australia and his country could arrive “a whole lot sooner than people think”.
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Cameron-Smith promoted
Wednesday | May 6 2020THE Travel Corporation (TTC) has appointed Matthew Cameron-Smith to the newly created role of CEO of the AAT Kings Group (TD breaking news yesterday).