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Flight Centre targets growth
Thursday | Feb 25 2021FLIGHT Centre Travel Group says it’s well-placed for the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with plans to “maintain and grow leisure market share through highly accessible leisure shop networks, supported by omni-channel offerings,” according to the company’s six monthly results update today (TD breaking news).
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Qantas flags Oct reboot
Thursday | Feb 25 2021QANTAS Chief Executive Alan Joyce has today revealed the carrier is preparing to restart international travel by Oct, believing Australia’s vaccine rollout will be “effectively complete” by that time.
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Helloworld “largely intact”
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021HELLOWORLD Travel Limited has hailed the “enormous perseverance and effort” of its travel agency network members in Australia and New Zealand, saying as a result the retail groups remained “largely intact as at the end of Dec 2020”.
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FC offers COVID services
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021FLIGHT Centre Travel Group has forged an agreement with healthcare provider Healius Limited to become a distribution partner of its COVID-19-related travel testing solutions.
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Australia “ripe” for Pass
Wednesday | Feb 24 2021THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) believes Australia would be receptive to rebooting international travel sooner if the country embraced its digital Travel Pass technology.
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AFTA poll confirms impact
Tuesday | Feb 23 2021THE Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) has today revealed the first results of its “Travelsectorkeeper” survey, revealing that more than 40% of the industry does not expect to return to profit until 2023.
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G’day to Aussie resorts
Tuesday | Feb 23 2021EL Questro Wilderness Park in WA and Kings Canyon Resort in the NT are now back in Australian hands following G’day Group’s purchase from global food service & hospitality company Delaware North, which bought the properties almost exactly a decade ago (TD 02 Mar 2010).
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Emirates to charge GDS fee
Monday | Feb 22 2021EMIRATES has become the latest carrier to impose fees on bookings through travel agent GDS platforms, with a fee of up to US$25 per sector to become effective from 01 Jul.
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NZ digital travel pass trial
Monday | Feb 22 2021AIR New Zealand will be among the first carriers to trial an electronic Travel Pass app developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), with a planned pilot on flights between Auckland and Sydney.
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Vic “Circuit Breaker” funds
Monday | Feb 22 2021THE Victorian Government has unveiled a $143 million “Circuit Breaker” support package designed to help tourism businesses in the state impacted by last week’s multi-billion dollar snap COVID-19 lockdown.