News
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Wings score OETG/SQ prize
Wednesday | Mar 24 2010THE Orient Express Travel Group has presented its ‘Select’ agency, Wings Travel, with the major prize in last year’s OETG Express Ticketing promotion, in conjunction with Singapore Airlines. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4461466365/
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SpaceShipTwo flies
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010VIRGIN Galactic performed its inaugural captive carry flight of SpaceShipTwo over the Mojave Desert in the USA overnight.
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Skywest best OTP
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010WESTERN Australia’s Skywest Airlines has reported the best on time performance (OTP) across all domestically operated airlines in Feb 2010.
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TSAX Buenos Aires
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010TRAVELSCENE American Express owners and managers will head to South America later this year, with the announcement by gm Jacqui Timmins that the TSAX annual conference will be held in Buenos Aires on 21-22 Oct.
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A lovely Long Island weekend
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010Long Island Resort in the Whitsundays in conjunction with Cruise Whitsundays recently hosted 80 Queensland travel agents to experience its facilities after a soft refurbishment. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4458370247/
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Delta SYD-ATL
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010DELTA has reversed plans for a single flight number operation between Sydney and New York (TD 10 Mar), with GDS systems now showing DL016/17 operating as a single flight number and same aircraft service on the current Atlanta-Los Angeles-Sydney routing.
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Air NZ loads up
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010AIR New Zealand saw a 4.5 point improvement in its Group load factor during Feb, with passenger numbers up 3.1% to 997,000 for the month on a 7.9% reduction in capacity.
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Map your holiday
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010BACKPACKER Campervans has launched a new feature on its just enhanced website that allows backpackers to custom-build their own holiday itineraries.
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Int’l Dive Marketing
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010AUSTRALIA’S only boutique int’l dive destination representation company opened last week, headed by well-known travel industry identity, Juliette Myers.
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Terrace Downs deal
Tuesday | Mar 23 2010NEW Zealand’s Rakaia Villas at Terrace Downs is offering a pre-winter deal during the month of May, where guests who book and pay for one night’s accom will get a second night for just NZ$50.