News
-
Carnival US record
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011CARNIVAL Cruise Lines in the US achieved an ‘unprecedented’ level of reservations last week, with 165,308 pax, eclipsing the previous record set four years ago.
-
Air Austral boost
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011REUNION-based Air Austral is now offering one-stop flights directly from Australia to Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Marseille and Paris, with the launch of new direct 777 services from its Indian Ocean home to the heart of France.
-
Sydney ramps up events offering
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011THE planned demolition of the Sydney Entertainment Centre (TD 21 Dec) will make way for the construction of a huge conference centre to cater for 12,000 people.
-
Ibis Mumbai opens
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011ACCOR and Interglobe Hotels have opened the 146-room Ibis Mumbai Airport hotel at the city’s domestic airport, the first of 17 Ibis branded properties for India.
-
HMAA transforms into AAA
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011Yesterday’s official rebranding of the Hotel Motel & Accommodation Association to the Accommodation Association of Australia (TD Tue) has been 20 years in the pipeline, according to its ceo Lorraine Duffy.
-
AFTA Update 16 Feb 11
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011IT WOULD appear that travel insurance is once again a topic of debate within the travel industry. Over this month there has been a genuine attempt to promote travel insurance via travel agent by using extensive blasts on the television in prime time slots.
-
SQ figures increase
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011SINGAPORE Airlines has today released its Jan 2011 results, with the carrying recording a 2.9% year on year rise in passenger carriage and a 4.2% increase in capacity.
-
Skywest Jan stats
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011WA-BASED Skywest Airlines has seen year-on-year drops in pax numbers, traffic and capacity in Jan, put down to a change in the number of flights to the NT.
-
Virgin IT glitch
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011VIRGIN Blue has confirmed to Travel Daily that all the carrier’s check-in systems are running as normal today following “some IT problems” at several ports around the country yesterday afternoon, causing some flight delays.
-
Meat GAP’s monthly vegos
Wednesday | Feb 16 2011Gap Adventures has made a move to reduce its staff’s level of meat consumption and greenhouse gases with the first of their monthly ‘Meat Free Mondays’, beginning this week.