News
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Sydney for MGM?
Thursday | Jul 15 2010ONE of the world’s biggest casino operators is interested in running the hotel at the proposed Barangaroo development on the shores of Sydney harbour.
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Sydney welcomes first Adina
Thursday | Jul 15 2010LAST night Toga Hospitality hosted a group of guests for a performance at Sydney Theatre Company (STC) to help celebrate the recent rebadging of their Medina on Crown property to Adina Apartment Hotel Sydney, Crown Street (TD 23 Jun).
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Cunard record
Thursday | Jul 15 2010FOUR Australian travel agents sold more than 200 cabins on Cunard’s QM2 circumnavigation voyage in just…
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Rock on the block
Thursday | Jul 15 2010A CONSORTIUM backed by the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) is expected to be announced as the purchaser of the Voyages Ayers Rock Resort within weeks.
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Jetstar pushes boundary
Thursday | Jul 15 2010JETSTAR ceo Bruce Buchanan has renewed his call for trans-Tasman flights to be treated as domestic services, saying the move would generate more than 325,000 extra passenger movements each year.
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Homework battle hots up
Thursday | Jul 15 2010MOBILE Travel Agents has hit back at a promotional campaign by rival home-based network TravelManagers (TD yesterday), saying that claims made by TravelManagers are “frankly astonishing and lack credibility”.
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Eurostar dedication
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010EUROSTAR will name one of its trains ‘Remembering Fromelles’ next week, in recognition of the Australian and British casualties who were lost in the Battle of Fromelles in 1916.
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Malaysia HND-BKI
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010MALAYSIA Airlines plans to add a Kota Kinabalu to Tokyo Haneda thrice weekly service (operating via KUL), effective 15 Nov.
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Newcastle no’s rise
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010NEWCASTLE Airport passenger numbers were up 5.7% year-on-year to 88,934 movements for Jun, exceeding the airport’s own forecast for the month.
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Aegean disruptions
Wednesday | Jul 14 2010STAR Alliance’s newest recruit, Aegean Airlines, has announced it will be cancelling nine scheduled services and re-scheduling 24 other flights at Athens on 15 Jul due to a strike by air traffic controllers.