News
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Window Seat 12 Jan 11
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011GOOD night, sleep tight, and… don’t let the bed bugs bite.
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Arrivals show 6% increase
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011GOVERNMENT figures released today show short-term visitor arrivals to Australia increased by 5.8% year-on-year to 508,000 movements during Nov 2010.
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VIC backs PBA/DL
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011TOURISM Victoria has told the International Air Services Comm. that the Victorian Government is in favour of the proposed code-share deal between Pacific Blue Airlines and Delta Air Lines on transTasman routes (TD 21 Dec).
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ICA revitalisation
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011THE Travel Industry Careers Association Inc will hold a Special General Meeting on 01 Feb as it attempts to revitalise its activity in the Australian travel industry.
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Carnival base Spirit in Oz
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011CARNIVAL Cruise Lines has today announced it will position one of its Spirit-classed vessels in Sydney year-round (TD/CW breaking news) from Oct 2012, as the Australian cruise market continues its boom.
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Canada Oct stats
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011AUSTRALIAN visitor arrivals to Canada in Oct 2010 were up 6% on the same month last year to 13,510, according to Canadian Tourism Commission statistics.
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Qantas 8th A380
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011QANTAS is expecting to take delivery of its eighth Airbus A380, dubbed David Warren (named in honour of the inventor of the Black Box Flight Recorder) in Toulousse, France this week.
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TD/CW Breaking News – Carnival Spirit to be based in Australia
Wednesday | Jan 12 2011Carnival to base vessel in Australia in 2012
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Arabian certification
Tuesday | Jan 11 2011ARABIAN Adventures, a division of the Emirates Group, has been awarded the internationally recognised Certified Emissions Measurement & Reduction Schemes certification, making it the first DMC to achieve the status.
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UK Al Qaeda threat
Tuesday | Jan 11 2011THE British Government raised its counter-terrorism advice to ‘severe’ for the transport sector late last week, with a letter from the UK’s Department of Transport to the air transport sector warning of a possible al Qaeda attack “against a UK airport or aviation sector target”.