News
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TD Breaking News – Virgin Blue outage cost $15-$20 million Virgin Blue estimates cost of IT collapse
Monday | Oct 11 2010Virgin Blue has just issued a statement advising that the failure of its reservations system on 26 September is estimated to have cost it $15-$20 million before tax.
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MH to Riyadh
Monday | Oct 11 2010MALAYSIA Airlines will launch thrice weekly flights to Riyadh, Arab Saudi from Kuala Lumpur, effective 17 Dec, the carrier’s third new destination this year, after Damman in Saudi and Bandung, Indonesia.
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Thomas Cook to merge with Co-Op
Monday | Oct 11 2010UK TRAVEL giant Thomas Cook has announced plans to merge with retail rival The Co-operative Group, a deal which will create the UK’s biggest travel agent network with over 1,200 stores and the UK’s second largest foreign exchange outlet network.
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LAX/PVG ok for AA
Monday | Oct 11 2010AMERICAN Airlines has been granted an allocation for seven weekly services between Los Angeles and Shanghai, as requested last week (TD 05 Oct).
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Rex leads ratings
Monday | Oct 11 2010REGIONAL Express, QantasLink and Qantas rated within 0.4% of one another in the latest Roy Morgan Airline Satisfaction data released by Roy Morgan Research last Fri.
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Guggenheim in WA
Monday | Oct 11 2010THE Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth has debuted an exclusive Guggenheim collection of artworks, all of which have never been seen in the Southern Hemisphere before.
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Travelscene Corporate US famil
Monday | Oct 11 2010Travelscene Corporate hosted a group of eight member offices from NSW and Victoria to a five night famil to the US recently (see here).
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Siteminder Guru
Monday | Oct 11 2010SITEMINDER has partnered with Accommodation Guru in a move to lure more accom providers to list their booking sites on the firm’s online reservation system.
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Compass Car’s support drive
Monday | Oct 11 2010ALMOST 2,000 women threw their support behind the McGrath Foundation last Fri and Sat by attending Sydney’s High Tea Party at The Westin (see here).
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Ecuador travel OK
Monday | Oct 11 2010THE Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade has downgraded its travel advisory for Ecuador from ‘Reconsider your need to travel’ to use a ‘High degree of caution’, following political unrest in the country earlier this month.