News
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Qantas $2m payout
Monday | Jun 7 2010QANTAS and security company SNP have been ordered to payout $2m to a Australian 33 year old who was hit on the head by a metal door when waiting in line at a security checkpoint at Sydney’s domestic airport in 2006.
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EK combo change
Monday | Jun 7 2010EMIRATES is advising agents it will be amending the Business booking class type on its European combination fares from ‘I’ to ‘O’ class, effective 11 Jun.
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Disney stand-alone
Monday | Jun 7 2010CREATIVE Holidays has today released what it says is the only dedicated Disney Parks brochure in the Australian market, covering all Disney products in California, Florida, Paris and Hong Kong.
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10th Emirates A380
Monday | Jun 7 2010EMIRATES has taken delivery of its 10th Airbus A380 superjumbo – the plane manufacturer’s 30th double-decker jet to be handed over since the plane’s commercial launch in Oct 2007.
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Thai alert lowered
Monday | Jun 7 2010THE Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade this morning reissued its travel advice for Thailand, reducing the level to the mid-range “high degree of caution” classification.
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Industry divided on TA ad
Monday | Jun 7 2010TRAVEL industry respondents to our survey on the new Tourism Australia TV commercial (TD 01 Jun) are almost exactly evenly divided, with 51% saying they like the ad and 49% saying they don’t.
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World Cup tipping
Monday | Jun 7 2010DUE to popular demand Travel Daily will this week launch a special tipping competition for the Soccer World Cup.
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FJ to the Cook Is. ?
Monday | Jun 7 2010AIR Pacific is looking to begin a weekly service from Fiji to the Cook Islands from Dec, with the service expected to be timed to link in with FJ’s direct Hong Kong-Nadi service, providing feed from UK and European markets.
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NZ domestic boost
Monday | Jun 7 2010AIR New Zealand has announced a 4.2% increase in domestic jet capacity, with strong increasing demand for NZ’s 737 services between Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin.
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Big changes for UK agent group
Friday | Jun 4 2010THE Association of British Travel Agents has released a new plan which encompasses a long-term vision for the UK travel industry.