Headlines
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Mass holiday cancellations
Monday | Apr 27 2020ALMOST 40% of Australians have cancelled planned international and domestic holidays over the last month, according to a new report about behaviour since COVID-19 was declared to be a pandemic.
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Air NZ to delay New York
Friday | Apr 24 2020AIR New Zealand is postponing its highly anticipated New York debut (TD 24 Oct 2019) by a year, with the non-stop Auckland flights to the Big Apple to now launch in late 2021 at the earliest.
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Sunset for Horizons Travel
Friday | Apr 24 2020SYDNEY-BASED travel specialist Horizons Group Travel has been placed into voluntary administration, with preliminary figures indicating the business owes creditors just over $1 million.
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STA hit with $14 million fine
Friday | Apr 24 2020STA Travel’s whopping $14 million in penalties for misleading customers about its MultiFLEX product (TD breaking news) comes 12 months after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) first referred the matter to the Federal Court (TD 28 Mar 2019).
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Amex GBT offsets 100%
Friday | Apr 24 2020AMERICAN Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is claiming a world first as being the “first global travel management company to offset 100% of its own travel emissions”.
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RBA chargeback breakthrough
Thursday | Apr 23 2020TRAVEL agent bank accounts will not automatically be debited by credit card providers when they receive a chargeback request from customers, under new guidance issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
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Air Mauritius into administration
Thursday | Apr 23 2020AIR Mauritius has been placed into voluntary administration, with the airline’s board saying it is “expected that the company will not be able to meet its financial obligations in the foreseeable future”.
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ACS put into hibernation
Thursday | Apr 23 2020THE AFTA Chargeback Scheme (ACS) is being effectively closed down (TD breaking news), with members advised that effective from 01 May no new travel arrangements will be protected.
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IATA urges confidence boost
Wednesday | Apr 22 2020THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the results of a new survey showing that 60% of recent travellers anticipate returning to the skies within one to two months of containment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Air NZ domestic reboot
Wednesday | Apr 22 2020THE easing of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand to “Alert Level 3” next week will see Air New Zealand add limited capacity to its domestic network, effective from 28 Apr.