News
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SYD fuel chaos
Friday | Jul 16 2010DISRUPTION is expected at Sydney Airport next week, with refuellers yesterday giving notice of a 24 hour strike on 21 Jul.
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Pan Pacific appoint
Friday | Jul 16 2010PAN Pacific Hotels Group has announced the appointment of Nigel Roberts to the position of vice president, area operations Oceania, as flagged by Travel Daily last week (TD 07 Jul).
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TA Facebook fans
Friday | Jul 16 2010TOURISM Australia says it now has more than 500,000 fans for its Facebook social networking platform, which launched in 2008.
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Window Seat 16 Jul 10
Friday | Jul 16 2010MEXICO City is hoping for a surge in gay tourism, offering a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed in Argentina, after the South American country yesterday became the first in the region to legalise same-sex marriages.
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787 may slip again
Friday | Jul 16 2010BOEING this morning issued a ‘cautionary note’ that the delivery of its first 787 aircraft to launch customer ANA may slip into the early weeks of 2011.
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Lower cheap fares
Friday | Jul 16 2010AN INCREASE in competition on domestic services across the nation has resulted in discounted airfares in Jul 2010 being at their lowest level on record for the month, according to the latest government airfare index study.
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Homework response
Friday | Jul 16 2010TRAVELMANAGERS this morning issued a statement in response to claims by rival home-based network MTA (TD yesterday) about its current ad campaign.
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Flight Centre gets social
Friday | Jul 16 2010FLIGHT Centre has appointed its first ever Global Social Media Manager, with Gregg Tilston taking up the newly created role effective immediately.
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VA extends MEL
Friday | Jul 16 2010V AUSTRALIA will operate its planned third weekly non-stop Melbourne-Los Angeles service year round, according to travel agent GDS displays.
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NZ denies DJ stake
Friday | Jul 16 2010AIR New Zealand this morning downplayed speculation that it had purchased shares in Virgin Blue, after a Sydney Morning Herald report claimed that the carrier wanted to purchase a stake of up to 15% in Australia’s second domestic carrier.