News
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CX/MX codeshare
Friday | Jun 11 2010CATHAY Pacific and Mexicana have signed a new codeshare deal that will provide better links between Hong Kong-Mexico City and Guadalajara, from 14 Jun.
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VN joins SkyTeam
Friday | Jun 11 2010VIETNAM Airlines has officially become the first Southeast Asian member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance.
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New German tax “crazy”: Joyce
Friday | Jun 11 2010QANTAS has echoed the International Air Transport Association’s disbelief about the German govt’s new ‘environmental’ tax (TD Tue), which is set to see air passengers flying out of the country needing to fork out an extra €14 tax.
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More Delta Firsts
Friday | Jun 11 2010DELTA Air Lines will enhance 50 of its domestic routes from Autumn 2010, adding a First class service on a number of key routes.
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IATA US$2.4b profit
Friday | Jun 11 2010THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced this week at its Annual General Meeting in Berlin it expects the airline industry to return to a US$2.4 billion profit in 2010.
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Sustainable audit
Friday | Jun 11 2010TOURISM Australia is reminding the business events sector that there are only a handful of days left to share their sustainability achievements in its corporate social responsibility audit.
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Connected in Singapore
Friday | Jun 11 2010QANTAS Holidays and British Airways recently hosted a group of Travelscene American Express agents on a ‘Stay Connected’ educational to Singapore. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4699075280/
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BA 777-300ER cabin
Friday | Jun 11 2010BRITISH Airways has revealed its soon to be delivered Boeing 777-300ER aircraft configuration in travel agent GDSs, which will see all new seat designs incorporated into the ‘pointy end’.
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They’ve done it again!
Friday | Jun 11 2010TWO Aussie travel agents now hold an unbeatable world record as the only people to have been on every single Airbus A380 inaugural flight so far. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveldailyau/4698414383/
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WHO on typhoid
Friday | Jun 11 2010THE World Health Organisation has called for the 900,000 people of Fiji to be vaccinated against typhoid following an outbreak of the disease (TD 31 May) there.