News
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Wolgan tempts
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010WOLGAN Valley Resort & Spa in the NSW Blue Mountains has launched a special ‘Spring Temptation’ promotion, offering two nights in a double Heritage Suite including all meals, selected beverages and two nature-based activities each day for $1470pp – plus a bonus Gourmet Pack valid 01 Sep-19 Dec – 02 9290 9733.
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GA KK’s daily JKT
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010GARUDA Indonesia yesterday confirmed it would be boosting frequencies between Sydney and Jakarta to daily, as exclusively revealed by Travel Daily nearly one month ago (TD 12 Aug).
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Cruise West suspension
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010ADVENTURE World says it’s “business as normal” for its Cruise West bookings, despite the Seattle-based cruise operator selling the flagship Spirit of Oceanus and temporarily closing its reservations centre.
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QF on South Africa
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010QANTAS says the anonymous submission to the IASC on the renewal of its codeshare pact with SAA (TD yesterday) “fails to compare apples with apples”.
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FC’s Escape to UK
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010FLIGHT Centre has launched its Escape Travel brand in the UK, but with rather a different flavour to Escape’s retail outlet franchise model in Australia.
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QF adds ‘Group Split’ fee
Wednesday | Sep 8 2010QANTAS will begin charging pax on an international group PNR a fee of $60 per person should their booking…
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Hilton appointment
Tuesday | Sep 7 2010HILTON Worldwide has appointed Celina Low as Senior Director, Corporate Communications for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.
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Sterling Thai signing
Tuesday | Sep 7 2010THE Preferred Hotel Group’s Sterling Hotels brand has added its first property in Thailand, the ShaSa Resort & Residences in Koh Samui.
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QF contacting pax
Tuesday | Sep 7 2010QANTAS is today advising agents it will be contacting all customers with existing codeshare bookings on Mexicana flights about re-booking on alternative services, following MX’s suspension of all services, including MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink, as flagged by TD last month (TD 30 Aug).
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German tax OK’d
Tuesday | Sep 7 2010THE controversial new German ‘ecological air travel levy’ (TD 09 Jun) has been approved by the German government, according to Air Transport World.