News
-
Insurance sales up
Tuesday | Apr 13 2010SALES of travel insurance through travel agents are increasing year-on-year, despite the best efforts of direct sellers such as AAMI to discredit the travel agency channel.
-
Footy tip winners
Tuesday | Apr 13 2010CONGRATS to Jeanne Ramadai from Emirates who was the Round 3 winner in the Travel Daily AFL footy tipping competition.
-
Choice choose MEL
Tuesday | Apr 13 2010TRAVELLERS Choice has chosen the Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne as the venue for the group’s 2010 Annual Shareholder’s Conference.
-
DJ Dreamliners?
Tuesday | Apr 13 2010VIRGIN Blue may add Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to its fleet order in coming months for new int’l routes, The West Aust. says.
-
NTIA nominations out
Tuesday | Apr 13 2010AFTA has released the full list of nominations for this year’s National Travel Industry Awards, with agents and suppliers across the country poised to commence voting from 9am tomorrow.
-
AC lifts YQ levy
Monday | Apr 12 2010AIR Canada will increase its int’l non-commissionable ‘YQ’ fuel surcharge on all travel to Canada and the USA to $CAD125 per direction, effective tomorrow.
-
OS now an eXpert
Monday | Apr 12 2010AUSTRIAN Airlines has jumped onboard up with Lufthansa and SWISS Airlines to promote its fares and news through the eXperts platform in Australia from today.
-
JAL dropping Bali?
Monday | Apr 12 2010JAPAN Airlines has blanked out seat inventory on services from Tokyo Narita to Denpasar (Bali) from 01 Oct, according to travel agent GDSs, signalling that the carrier may be looking to suspend the route.
-
Tour de France tour
Monday | Apr 12 2010FRANCE-BASED Discover France Adventures has a handful of spots left on its Alpes VIP itinerary that follows the gruelling Tour de France cycling tour in Jul.
-
TCF termination
Monday | Apr 12 2010THE Travel Compensation Fund has announced the non voluntary termination of Sunnybank Travel (ABN: 42 010 345 678) of QLD, as the “agency lacks sufficient financial resources.”