News
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BA adds LCY/CMF
Monday | Nov 29 2010BRITISH Airways is launching a new four times weekly CityFlyer route between London City Airport and Chambery, France for the Northern Winter period, from 18 Dec, using Embraer 190 jets.
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RBA incentive winner
Monday | Nov 29 2010Royal Brunei Airlines presented $5,000 to Travelworld Capalaba for winning its NTC/JTG QLD agent incentive recently (see here).
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Business Select head
Monday | Nov 29 2010JETSET Travelworld’s Vic/Tas sales manager Lynda Wallace is currently heading up the JTG Business Select corporate subgroup following the departure of Olly Tams (TD 04 Nov), until a permanent replacement is found.
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Big things coming to Hong Kong
Monday | Nov 29 2010TOURISM authorities in Hong Kong are seeing significant improvements in hotel occupancy this year, with 2010 seeing the opening of 11 new properties so far, adding 1552 rooms in total.
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MH Adelaide boost
Monday | Nov 29 2010MALAYSIA Airlines has confirmed an increase in ADL flights, with six weekly non-stop services to Kuala Lumpur from 27 Mar (TD 08 Nov).
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DJ pax numbers up
Monday | Nov 29 2010VIRGIN Blue this morning announced a 3.7% increase in Oct domestic passenger numbers to 1.4 million – but an increase in capacity saw the airline’s revenue load factor dive 3.9 points to 81% for the month.
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Sabre pushes for scale
Monday | Nov 29 2010SABRE Pacific ceo Gai Tyrrell has hailed the vision of Jetset Travelworld Group ceo Peter Lacaze in pursuing the merger between Stella Travel and JTG, saying it had for the first time “created an opportunity for Flight Centre to be tackled head on”.
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Cosmos Asia boost
Monday | Nov 29 2010COSMOS has added a new 7-day India tour to its Asia program, which now include 11 tours visiting China, Japan, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bhutan, priced from $96 per day.
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Jewel sails away
Monday | Nov 29 2010RELIEVED cruisers celebrated the successful departure on Sat of P&O’s Pacific Jewel, which has been in drydock for repairs and upgrades for the last four weeks and now has a rectified stabiliser and a new top deck Big Screen.