Headlines
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CTM grows in UK, Australia
Wednesday | Dec 14 2016CORPORATE Travel Management this morning announced a $71 million capital raising, to fund the acquisition of British corporate agency Redfern Travel and Tasmania’s Andrew Jones Travel (TD breaking news).
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CWT cites 15% over-spend
Tuesday | Dec 13 2016CARLSON Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has identified corporate over-spending of up to 15% in a new white paper on managing business traveller behaviour.
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10 months of visitor growth
Tuesday | Dec 13 2016INBOUND short-term visitor arrivals to Australia skyrocketed 11.1% year-on-year in Oct to 709,300, led by significant jumps from the United States, Malaysia, South Korea and India.
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CCS tick for SQ/LH tie-up
Tuesday | Dec 13 2016THE Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has approved a joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Germany’s Lufthansa after the airline powerhouses agreed to capacity commitments.
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Zurich in Cover-More bid
Monday | Dec 12 2016COVER-MORE has revealed a take-over bid worth $854 million by the Zurich Insurance Company, which has made an offer of $1.95 per share (TD breaking news).
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Badgerys Creek go ahead
Monday | Dec 12 2016THE second Sydney Airport has been given the green light, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Urban Infrastructure Paul Fletcher finalising paperwork today.
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QF confirms PER-London
Monday | Dec 12 2016QANTAS will deploy its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on the longest air route in the world when it begins passenger services from Perth to London in Mar 2018 (TD breaking news yest).
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Helloworld sells WAS, GAS
Friday | Dec 9 2016HELLOWORLD’S divestment of its aviation representation businesses World Aviation Systems and Global Aviation Services (TD breaking news) sees the company exit the airline gsa business after almost 40 years.
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EK Premium Econ coming
Friday | Dec 9 2016THERE’S growing certainty that Qantas’ alliance partner Emirates is developing a new Premium Economy product after the Gulf carrier’s president suggested tickets would go on sale for the product as early as next Dec.
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Jetstar summer boost
Thursday | Dec 8 2016JETSTAR has added almost 400 flights to its summer schedule, boosting key holiday routes with a record number of services.