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NRL weekly winner
Tuesday | May 18 2010CONGRATULATIONS to Cheryl Borg from Harvey World Travel Kiama who has won two bottles of wine, courtesy of Compass Car Rental, after being the top tipper in TD’s NRL footy tipping competition last weekend.
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easyJet chief quits
Tuesday | May 18 2010THE founder of UK-based lowcost carrier easyJet, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has resigned from the carrier’s board over a dispute about the planned growth of the airline’s fleet.
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Two Indian Stars?
Monday | May 17 2010JET Airways is in talks to join the Star Alliance airline network in the future, in addition to rival Indian carrier Air India.
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UK air back-lash
Monday | May 17 2010BRITISH Airways and Virgin Atlantic say plans for a new air tax charged on each aircraft, rather than per passenger (TD Fri), is “unworkable and could financially disadvantage Britain’s travel industry”.
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HA A330 early
Monday | May 17 2010HAWAIIAN Airlines has brought forward the entry into service of its new A330-200 aircraft, which will now debut on 04 Jun on flights from Honolulu to Los Angeles and Las Vegas according to agent GDS displays.
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MH boost for AKL
Monday | May 17 2010MALAYSIA Airlines has added a 5th weekly direct service between Kuala Lumpur and Auckland on Wed due to growing demand.
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Top prize for TD reader
Monday | May 17 2010Top Dog Developments has named Grant Palmer of budgetflights.com.au as the lucky winner of a $50,000 online travel system in the recent competition run exclusively in Travel Daily. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4614618225/
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BA strike action
Monday | May 17 2010BRITISH Airways will operate its scheduled flights between London Heathrow and Sydney over the next five days despite the planned strike action by the carrier’s LHR-based cabin crew.
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Britain-Brazil deal
Monday | May 17 2010VISITBRITAIN has signed a new agreement with Brazilian tourism promotion organisation EMBRATUR which aims to increase tourism between the two countries.
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Window Seat 17 May 10
Monday | May 17 2010A SKINNY-DIPPING tourist in New Zealand paid a high price recently after a venomous spider bit him on the penis.