News
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All smiles in Hong Kong
Monday | Nov 22 2010Scenic Tours md Glen Moroney was one of a number of senior Australian travel industry executives who were in Hong Kong on the weekend to support Harvey World Travel’s 2010 Symposium (see here).
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QH extends price match policy
Monday | Nov 22 2010QANTAS Holidays and Viva! Holidays have updated their price match and query policy, with the current arrangements now valid until 31 Jan 2011.
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Free wifi on Alaska
Monday | Nov 22 2010ALASKA Airlines is offering pax complimentary Gogo Inflight Internet Service on all Boeing 737 aircraft equipped with Wi-Fi, until 09 Dec, providing access to online music, games and podcasts.
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Webjet expands internationally
Monday | Nov 22 2010AUSTRALIAN online agency Webjet today confirmed details of its international growth (TD Tue), with the soft launch of operations in Hong Kong this week.
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Agents early Austrian Xmas
Monday | Nov 22 2010Austrian National Tourist Office and Emirates show-cased the Tirol region of Austria to this group of lucky agents at the end of last week as part of the ‘Austria. Destination Summit’.
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Hotels.com app.
Monday | Nov 22 2010HOTELS.COM has launched a new Facebook app which, it says, is the first online agency to develop an application that offers full auto complete functionality, that can search for accom, compare & complete transactions.
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Bookings slide
Monday | Nov 22 2010JETSET Travelworld Group ceo Peter Lacaze has revealed a dip in Australian BSP figures for both domestic and international bookings during Oct, with the decline reversing a strong growth trend seen in previous months.
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TC pays out $690K
Monday | Nov 22 2010TRAVELLERS Choice managing director Gary Allomes said the company emerged from the downturn of “2008/09 as a lean, financially disciplined organisation, strategically well positioned to take advantage of the steadily improving trading conditions we’ve experienced over the past 12 months”.
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AA Travelport fee stuns agents
Monday | Nov 22 2010THE new “booking source premium” which will be charged by American Airlines for agents booking its segments through the Galileo GDS (TD breaking news) is likely to see the carrier suffer a big drop in bookings, according to a number of furious agents who have contacted TD this morning.
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GA SkyTeam meet
Monday | Nov 22 2010GARUDA Indonesia will meet with officials from the SkyTeam airline alliance in Jakarta on Tue to sign an official memorandum of understanding, paving the way for the carrier to join the expanding SkyTeam, by 2012.