News
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New pals thanks to PAL
Thursday | May 13 2010Six lucky Travel Daily readers recently discovered the meaning of luxury with a weekend in Manila, compliments of Philippine Airlines. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4605878160/
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InterCon ranks best
Thursday | May 13 2010INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels & Resorts has come out on top in terms of guest hotel satisfaction among Australians for the year ended Mar, according to the latest Roy Morgan Research report.
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AirAsia local funds
Thursday | May 13 2010AIRASIA has introduced a new multi-currency online sales platform using the RBS FXmicropay solution that enables passengers booking flights in Australia, the UK, the US, Hong Kong and Singapore to obtain instant pricing in their local currency, via www.airasia.com.
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$10 leaping fares
Thursday | May 13 2010VISITORS to Kangaroo Island in South Australia booking two nights accom through SeaLink Travel Group are being offered a $10 ferry fare during winter.
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Yet more NZ funds
Thursday | May 13 2010THE New Zealand tourism industry will benefit from an extra NZ$30m (AU$24m) in marketing funding announced by the country’s prime minister, John Key last night.
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Qatar Euro fares
Thursday | May 13 2010QATAR Airways has released some special economy class fares to Europe, ex Melbourne for travel between 20 Sep-25 Nov, on sale until the end of May.
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Byron gets greenies
Thursday | May 13 2010CLOSE to 20 percent of Jetstar travellers flying to Ballina-Byron Bay airport are electing to offset their carbon emissions, making it the most popular ‘green’ route for the low cost carrier.
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US/TAM codeshare
Thursday | May 13 2010US AIRWAYS and Brazil’s TAM Airlines have agreed to a bilateral codeshare pact, which will soon provide a single-source booking, ticketing and baggage connection option for pax on each other’s services, effective Jul.
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Disney up and down
Thursday | May 13 2010THE Walt Disney Company has reported a 2% rise in revenue for its Parks & Resorts worldwide to US$2.4b year-on-year, for the quarter ending 03 Apr.
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EK profit soars
Thursday | May 13 2010EMIRATES yesterday reported a US$1.1b group net profit for the year to 31 Mar, with the airline division contributing more than 90% of the income.