News
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Baltic Sea Dream
Thursday | Jan 6 2011SEADREAM will begin new sailings to the Baltic, Norwegian Fjords and Russia during the Northern Summer, moving away from its regular sailings on the Mediterranean.
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Smartgate increase
Thursday | Jan 6 2011THE Gillard Govt has added four new SmartGate self-processing passport kiosks and one extra gate at Sydney Int’l Airport, speeding up the time it takes to process passports on arrival.
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New Vietnam hub
Thursday | Jan 6 2011VIETNAM’S Prime Minister has opened a brand new airport in Chu Long (Mekong), expected to provide air services to both local and international carriers.
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Latest new agents
Thursday | Jan 6 2011THE Travel Compensation Fund admitted eight new travel agent head office locations in the second half of Dec 2010.
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Canada focus unchanged
Thursday | Jan 6 2011CANADA’s local travel trade partners “shouldn’t feel any real shift” in project and marketing activities, stemming from the switch by the Canadian Tourism Commission to a GSA office (TD 26 Nov), says md of DC Associate Worldwide, Donna Campbell.
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Fiji comp winner
Thursday | Jan 6 2011TREASURE Island Fiji and Air Pacific would like to congratulate Cassandra Verso from Showgroup who is the lucky winner of the Fiji comp that ran in Travel Daily over the last month.
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CO/LOT codeshare
Thursday | Jan 6 2011CONTINENTAL Airlines and LOT have requested authority from the US Dept of Transportation to codeshare on trans-Atlantic flights between the USA and Poland “to enhance competition.”
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Value in S. America
Thursday | Jan 6 2011VALUE Tours is adding South America ski product as it looks to further expand its portfolio of destinations.
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Sabre to ditch AA
Thursday | Jan 6 2011SABRE Holdings says it will terminate its distribution deal with American Airlines a month before its contract is due to end in Aug, and stop offering price discounts on the airline’s tickets, according to Bloomberg.