News
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Airline OTP stats
Friday | Oct 15 2010THE “latest government figures”for airline On Time Performance in Aug 2010 were released last month (TD 21 Sep), and showed that Qantas was the best domestic carrier for getting both its flights away, and to their destination, at the scheduled time.
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GA expands VOA
Friday | Oct 15 2010GARUDA Indonesia advises it has begun trialling immigration on board processing on flights from Sydney to Jakarta to fast track immigration at Cengkareng Apt.
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Carnival Magic sails
Friday | Oct 15 2010CARNIVAL cruise lines newest ship, Carnival Magic, was “floated out” for the first time this week at the Fincantieri, Italy shipyard.
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MH Agents Eat Pray Love
Friday | Oct 15 2010ON Thu evening, Malaysia Airlines, in conjunction with Air Tickets, hosted 100 Sydney travel agents to a private screening of Eat, Pray, Love (see here).
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New Shanghai MO
Friday | Oct 15 2010MANDARIN Oriental Hotels has signed an agreement to manage a new luxury hotel which is currently under construction in Pudong, Shanghai.
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Insight getting social
Friday | Oct 15 2010Insight Vacations says the internet has opened up a whole new way of engaging with its customers, more and more of whom are Facebook-savvy and very computer literate (see here).
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Mango shake-up
Friday | Oct 15 2010SOUTH African Airways has announced that from 01 Nov it will no longer fly between Durban and Cape Town.
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London Concorde?
Friday | Oct 15 2010A PROPOSAL for a new London tourist attraction could see one of the defunct Concorde supersonic aircraft on display on the Thames, as part of a new £22m precinct jutting into the river near the London Eye.
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Marshall role
Friday | Oct 15 2010JOHN Marshall, currently Etihad Airways state mgr for Vic/Tas/SA, has been appointed as ceo of the Daylesford & Macedon Ranges Regional Tourism Board.
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iSrael for iPhone
Friday | Oct 15 2010THE Israel Tourism Ministry has launched a new tourism App for travellers with Apple iPhones.