Headlines
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Qantas slashes Asia flights
Thursday | Feb 20 2020QANTAS this morning unveiled sweeping cuts to some of its Asian routes, as it responds to an ongoing demand slump relating to the coronavirus crisis.
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Webjet chooses Cover-More
Thursday | Feb 20 2020WEBJET and Cover-More have inked a new agreement that will see the insurer become the exclusive provider of travel insurance for the OTA across Australia and New Zealand.
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QF profit OK despite headwinds
Thursday | Feb 20 2020QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce this morning hailed the carrier’s performance for the six months to 31 Dec, with an underlying profit result of $771 million, down just $4 million despite a range of issues including high foreign exchange costs, unrest in Hong Kong and increased domestic airport charges.
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Uniworld launches its first trade partnership program
Thursday | Feb 20 2020LAST Fri night, 14 Feb, Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, the world’s most luxurious all-inclusive river cruise line, invited its top-producing and most engaged trade partners from around Australia for an evening of celebration at the Deckhouse in Woolwich. Hosted by Uniworld’s President & CEO Ellen Bettridge, the evening began in style with guests boarding a vintage Sydney ferry which transported them to the exclusive secret location. The agency partners were inducted into Uniworld’s new partnership program, Alchemy, which is designed to support and reward top agents through priority access to reservations, access to local area marketing funds, stateroom upgrades for industry rates, and famil opportunities. The program will run on a calendar year basis with the next intake of Alchemy members to be inducted in Jan 2021, giving all agents the opportunity to participate. When asked what Alchemy means, “for us it’s the perfect word that describes the magical moment when the right client is recommended the right cruise,” said Bettridge.
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CTM hit by virus, unrest
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020JAMIE Pherous, Corporate Travel Management CEO, says the one-off impacts of Brexit, Hong Kong demonstrations and COVID-19 have “masked an otherwise solid business performance where we have been winning customers, managing costs and growing market share”.
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Webjet takes a hit from TC
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020WEBJET’S profit for 1H20 was hit hard by the Thomas Cook collapse in Sep, with the company writing off a $44m debt in unpaid receivables from the failed company (TD breaking news).
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A Sapphire year for Oz
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020PRINCESS Cruises has announced its 2,670-passenger Sapphire Princess vessel will be redeployed from homeports in Singapore and Shanghai to Australia for an extended year-long season six months early, commencing 01 May (TD breaking news 18 Feb).
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Qld ups travel support
Wednesday | Feb 19 2020THE Queensland Government has issued a $27 million business stimulus package to Queensland businesses struggling in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Excite Directors take control
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020GEORGE Papaioannou and Nicholas Stavropoulos, the Directors of the collapsed Excite Holidays, were yesterday handed back control of four of the five companies involved in the failure – while the fifth one was removed from the Administration because according to KPMG, it was never insolvent (TD breaking news).
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LeisureCom buys Ecruising
Tuesday | Feb 18 2020PRIVATE equity-backed LeisureCom Group is expanding into the cruise sector, with the 100% acquisition of pioneering Australian online cruise seller, Ecruising (TD breaking news).